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Pencil Drawing Mastery: Tonality, Shading & Hatching Skills

teacher avatar Amelie Braun, Artist & Cartoonist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:10

    • 2.

      The Concept of Tonality

      14:56

    • 3.

      Types of Shading (Hatches)

      14:37

    • 4.

      Shading of Geometric Shapes

      15:46

    • 5.

      Drawing and Shading an Apple

      15:08

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Introduction

Mastering tonality and shading is a cornerstone of professional pencil drawing. These skills transform simple sketches into lifelike artworks by adding depth, volume, and atmosphere. Through careful control of light and shadow, you can create drawings that feel real and emotionally engaging. In this course, you will discover how to use tonal values and shading techniques to bring your drawings to life—whether you’re working on still life, portraits, or imaginative designs.

Understanding Tonality

Tonality refers to the full range of gray values between the lightest highlights and the darkest shadows in a drawing. It’s achieved by adjusting the pressure, angle, and layering of pencil strokes. Mastering tonal values helps you:

  • Create convincing depth and three-dimensionality.

  • Simulate realistic lighting conditions.

  • Convey mood and atmosphere.

By practicing different tonal ranges—from soft, subtle transitions to bold, high-contrast effects—you’ll gain the ability to shape your subjects with precision.

The Art of Shading

Shading is the technique of applying light and dark areas to suggest form, texture, and distance. Whether using hatching, cross-hatching, blending, or stippling, shading allows you to:

  • Build volume and structure in objects.

  • Highlight textures like smooth metal, rough wood, or soft fabric.

  • Guide the viewer’s eye through your composition.

The right shading can turn a flat sketch into a dynamic, realistic artwork.

Course Structure

  1. Introduction to Tonality – Learn to create a smooth tonal scale, control pencil pressure, and differentiate subtle shades.

  2. Shading Geometric Forms – Practice on spheres, cubes, and cylinders to understand how light behaves on different surfaces.

  3. Drawing a Realistic Apple – Apply your new skills in a final project where you build form, texture, and realistic depth step-by-step.

Why This Matters for Your Drawing Journey

Mastering tonality and shading isn’t just about technical skill—it’s about unlocking a visual language that makes your pencil drawings speak. By combining tonal control with purposeful shading, you’ll gain the confidence to tackle any subject, from intricate still lifes to expressive portraits.

Final Thoughts

By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools, techniques, and confidence to create drawings with convincing light, depth, and atmosphere. With consistent practice, you’ll elevate your artwork from flat sketches to captivating, realistic pieces.

Tools: HB or B2 Pencil, B6 Pencil, Normal Eraser, Normal Paper

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Amelie Braun

Artist & Cartoonist

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Hello, I'm Amelie.

I started drawing with a pencil when I was sixteen, initially focusing on pencil drawing classes. During these early years, I developed a strong foundation in portrait drawing, figure drawing, and facial features design. I also honed my skills in working with colored pencils, ink pens, and watercolors. These diverse experiences have given me a comprehensive understanding of various techniques and styles.

As my interest grew, I discovered a passion for character design and animation, which led me to pursue professional character design classes. My university education in the field of animation further deepened my expertise. At the age of twenty-four, I began teaching character drawing with a pencil, combining my knowledge of traditional drawing techniques... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Are you ready to uncover the mysteries of shading and cross hatching? In my course, I'll first teach you the concept of tonality with pencil. Then join me as we delve into mastering the basics of crosshatching techniques and pencil shading. Learn how to apply these skills to geometric shapes like squares and circles, and then elevate your artistry by shading and crosshatching on more complex forms. Finally, you'll even sketch and shade an apple with pencil, bringing your new techniques to life. Enroll now, and let's explore your artistic potential together. Before we want to start our work, I'm just going to tell you about the tools that we need for our work. It's just a usual etch eraser, a normal pencil, and a basic pencil. So with only these three tools, we are going to start our work. So let's go. 2. The Concept of Tonality: Hello again, and welcome to the first episode of This Tutorial W M. Okay. So first of all, let's start with one of the most important things in sketching and drawing. Well, this is one of the things that we should consider right from the beginning and it's the most important part of drawing, and that is the tonalities. Tonality means our darkest shades moving toward our lightest shades that they can actually help us to volume our work or give some dimension to our work or even make it prettier. Okay. Now, let's see how we can create tonalities. So over here, I've got kind of a stretched rectangle. Okay. Here we are. And I should divide this rectangle into 12 separate parts. So I just try to create 12 separate and equal parts inside of this stretched rectangle. All right. As you can see, my 12 parts are complete. And in these 12 parts, I want to tell you how you can create your tonalities. Okay? You know, the tonalities can be done in 12 numbers in five numbers or even in 50 numbers. So that depends on you. But I'm just getting a balanced way over here. The base of it and the balanced way of it is by 12, but you can make it more or you can make it less. Dam. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten and 11 and 12. So here we are. Okay, now, then I get my Basix sketching pencil because it's darker. And then, as you can see, my first part, the first box is totally dark. It's absolute darkness. It means that your hand pressure should be very high, and you should just darken this box as much as you can. Okay. So it's going to be totally and absolutely dark. Then the second color palette is still dark. See? It might be just a tad and just a bit lighter than the previous one, I mean, lighter than box one, but it's still very, very dark. So I'm going I'm starting with the darkest color that I can create, and then I move toward making it lighter. Number three is still counted as my dark tonalities and dark palettes. But as you can see, it's lighter compared to number two and number one. Because as I told you, as I'm moving forward, I'm just decreasing my hand pressure just a little bit to make them a little bit lighter. Number four is still in the dark palette. But again, as you can see, it's actually lighter comparing to the previous ones. Okay. Okay. Then from color palette number five, little by little, my hand pressure decreases more and it's moving toward lighter tonalities. Okay. Number six is obviously lighter, as you can see. And then I'm going to work on my number seven. It's going to be much more lighter comparing to the previous ones. Then I go to my number eight. My tonality is getting created here. As you can see, it's going to be perfect. Then I move on to work on number nine. And box number nine is just too light, as you can see. Because as I told you, you just have to control your hand pressure while you're moving through this rectangle. Basically, the six from the sixth box on, I mean, from after the box number six, it's been counted as the light palette of our work and the light tonalities. So as I was saying, from number one to number 12, you should just gradually little by little, decrease your hand pressure as you're moving through. So you see, I've got the darkest area there, and then I get to number 12 that I should have absolute light, so I don't color it at all. So we call these 12 steps of shading and coloring these 12 box eternality so as I told you before, little by little, and gradually, we've decreased our hand pressure, and we've got these done. Now, we call each one of them a color palette. For example, palette number one, number two, number five, and so on. And as I told you before, the tonalities can be worked in for, I don't know, in 12 boxes or in ten boxes or even 50 boxes that depends on you. Well let's see what are the tonalities good for? I mean, what is their use at all? Well, whether you want to sketch, I don't know, an egg or a vase or a face or anything that you want to sketch, you might have to use these tonalities from number one to number 12. You should have all of these color palettes in your work. If I use only from six on plans and from six on boxes, my work is going to be too light. It doesn't have any excitement, any life in it, or it just gets so bored, boring. Sorry. And if I use my dark palettes only, the same thing will happen. I will lose all the details. It would not look great and so on. So in all of our sketchings, should we should have these color palettes 1-12. And actually, when a dark color palette comes exactly next to a light one, for example, number two, comes next to number 12 or 11, it will make a contrast for us. So that's what we call a contrast. It means that we place two different shades right next to each other, one dark and one light. For example, I place one of my dark palettes here can be anything you want. And next to this, I'm going to use my number ten. So you can see the opposite shades made here that we call them contrast. We call these contrast in sketching. So if someone has told you that your sketching or your drawing doesn't have any contrast, it means that your dark palettes and your light palettes are not next to each other. It means that you've only used the dark ones or the light ones. Neither is good. So you should have both the dark palettes and the light palettes used in your work. One of the practices that can help you in order to master the tonology skills is this one. This one, I'm going to create my tonality, but this time, I'm not going to use any boxes. So basically, I'm actually decreasing my hand pressure very gradually. And I do not create any specific borders here. This can actually help you to control your hand pressure better. So you start from the darkest shade that you can create with your pencil, and as you move on, you gradually and slowly drop your hand pressure until you get to the lightest color. Okay. So as you can see, I've got all of my colors, all of my analogies 1-12 in my work. So this is one of the best practices that you can do. It's a bit more challenging than working in the boxes, but, you know, you can do it. Now, Okay. But the common mistakes in working internality are these ones that I'm going to tell you. For example, the student will start with a very strong darkness. And then when they want to transfer into the light, you see, they don't do it gradually. They just do it suddenly. So they suddenly drop their hand pressure and make it really light. This is totally wrong. This is the correct one. This is the wrong one. You see? Internality, we shouldn't have any separation in between our colors. You can clearly see that separation and the border between our shades. So we should never have this kind of separation and borderline in our tonality. Another mistake is that students would assert like this, and instead of dropping their hand pressure so their shades would get lighter, they just make their lines get further from each other and they make it smaller. We don't want it to be smaller or get it further from each other. I want it to be lighter as it moves on towards the end, and I want your hand pressure to drop gradually. So that one was also wrong. So while you're working on this tonality, you should never take your hand off the paper, never. And you should do it all in one session. And after you finish the whole process, you shouldn't go over on it again and shade some parts again. So you start one time from the beginning to the end and you don't take your hand off the paper or you don't go over it again. Let me just do it one more time for you. I am having strong hand pressure in the beginning, and then I'm giving time to my hand to my pencil and slowly and slowly gradually, I'm decreasing my hand pressure, and I'm making my shades and colors lighter, as you can see, and as I'm moving forward, no sudden drops either, and no making it smaller. This is a very correct tonality shaped so I didn't I didn't stop anywhere. I didn't do anything wrong, and that's the true form of it. So I hope you've enjoyed it. You've learned it, and this is a very, very important thing. You should definitely practice it over and over again because it's one of the most basic and most important things. 3. Types of Shading (Hatches): Hello, again, and welcome to the rest of the tutorial with me. Okay. In this part, we are going to learn how we can shape things and what methods can we use in order to give something some color. Okay. We have very useful and common methods in order to shade something that we can easily use them. The first method and the first technique is by hatching. Crossover hatching or simply hatching. You see? I'm just using simple hatches in order to shade my thing. If my light sources over here, this part is the lightest and here would be the darkest part of my object. In order to darken this area with hatches, what would the artist do? Well, you see the artist will just start hatching from this corneal something that should be considered over here is that in order to make a place darker in our object, with this method, you should place layers and layers of hatches on top of each other to make that area darker. So as much as I place my hatches layer by layer on top of each other and in different directions, it will make that part darker for me. See? So I'm just going to do it over and over again that my sketches and my shades will get to the color that I want. Okay. So I'm just letting it go a bit free. I want it to be free. Just as you can see, again, I continue my hatching from there. And, of course, I'll do it again on the opposite side. Then I would move on to do the last layer, and that's how much darkness that I need. Okay. And in the next method of shading, let's see what we do. So far we've learned the hatching technique that we create hatches and we do that over again until we reach the color that we want. But this time, I am going to use very subtle shades. They should be very soft. Very smooth. See? Again, I'm using the hatching technique, but this time, the difference is that I'm using small hatches very close to each other. So my hatches are very small and very close to each other so that they make a very smooth, subtle and soft shade for me. In the previous technique, I used hatches with longer lines and a bit away from each other. I actually had a little space between my hatchings. That's why I needed to hatch in different directions in order to cover an area, and I needed to do it layer by layer as well. But this time, as you can see, I'm creating very small lines in order to get softer shades, small lines, and also they should be very, very close to each other. I get better smoother shades there. Okay. That's how we do it. Also, from this lower area, I'll do the same thing. So I just work like that. Again, for the darkest area, I'm going to add more layers of she to make it darker. So that's the same. I just have to do it over and over again until I want it to be finished. Okay Okay. So as I move on toward this right upper corner, my shades are getting lighter. I should not have any specific lines in this method or any trace of pencil in this method, because I just want to have a soft, smooth shade. So leave no traces of your pencil and leave no separate specific lines there. All right. Maybe even more darkness can be done here. Just like that. So easy, easily done. Even from here, I need more darkness, so I just add my shades on top of each other until I get the color that I want there. Okay. Now we go to the third method. In the third in the third method, I'm sorry. I'm just tapping my pencil on the paper and I'm just dragging it all over. It's a bit more free. And as I move toward the light more, my shades just get, you know, more scattered or spreaded. And they also get lighter, you know. Okay. In the tapping technique, you can work in one direction only, or you can use different directions. So another thing that I should tell you is that these methods of shading is not totally on your taste. You know what I mean? I mean, it's not like you draw something and say, Okay, for this drawing, I want to use this method. No. For example, for the nature or other things, we use the third method. But for some objects that we want to show they're soft and smooth, we use the second method or the first method. Basically, the first and second method are more common in our drawings, but the third method also is useful. So again, I say, the technique that you work with depends on the thing that you are creating. So for example, if it's in a nature or something that has more texture, we use the third technique. But in objects and faces, as I told you, we work with the first two methods of shading, that's how we do it. Again, from the darkness of my work, I'll add more shades to make them darker, obviously. So just like that. Easy peasy. We're almost done. Okay. And I'm done with it. I gave you three methods for shading. Now we want to work on geometrical shapes and we see how we can actually shape them. So we want to see how we can shade our objects or anything with these techniques of shading and also getting the tonality and the contrast right. The first geometrical shape that we want to work with is a circle. So first of all, I need a circle, right? That's why I'm going to create one over here. And then I'm going to shade it later. So my dear friends, this is my circle. But I want to give some volume to the circle, so I make it into a ball maybe or a globe. Depends on you. So this will be the lightest area of my ball and that would be the darkest because of the direction of my light source. Another point that I can give you is that if you want your shade to be even softer, don't start with your Bsi pencil. Use a pencil with a lower number, which is lighter for the primary shades and just for giving a background color. Because this way you can work better and you can have better shades. So I'm using my normal pencil my HB pencil or any other kind of pencil that you like. I want to use a second method for my bowl here. But anyways, again, I say, I am working with my lighter pencil because I just wanted to first give it a background color to make sure that everywhere is shaded and then work on its colors more. Okay. So as I told you before, in the first technique, I've got some space between my hatches, but in the second technique, my lines are so close to each other that I cannot see any space in between them. And that's why it is smoother. Okay. So I'm just working on my shading. First, I'm going to start with a normal pencil, and then I'm going to do it with H B. Sorry, with B six. So first, I'm going to do only with a simple pencil. And as I move toward the light, obviously, my hand pressure decreases. So that's how it's done. Okay. Okay. Here we go. And as you can see, I'm adding more darkness, especially from the edges toward inside of my ball. And I'm making these shades darker and darker. I'm just doing it very relaxed and very patient because, you know, you should not rush through it. As much patience and time you spend on it, it will get better results for you. Okay. So let's continue in the next part and complete this beautiful object. 4. Shading of Geometric Shapes: Hello again and welcome to the rest of this tutorial with me. Let's go on together and complete this shading. Just like before, I'm using my HB pencil in order to apply my shades very slowly and little by little. I'm just going to continue that. Then from the edges from the surroundings, I'm just going to add some more darkness into this ball. Okay. And as I move toward the light, I just decrease my hand pressure, just like that. So here we go. Okay. So as much as I can get the darkness out of my HB pencil, I'm going to use it as long as I can, as much as I can get the darkness out of this one. And then later I can switch to my darker pencil. So also pay attention to the way that I'm shading here and to the direction that I'm shading here. So the technique of shading is as important as the direction of the shading. I'm not leaving any white spots, any uncolord or uncovered parts over here, and I'm just shading all over. And as I told you before, I'm working in different directions, and I'm also considering that it's a circle, so I should shade in a direction and in an angle that I can also show the shape of my object, that would be better for me. Okay. Then in this lower area, Again, I bring more darkness into my work just making these parts dark. As I move upward, I decrease the darkness and I blended into the lighter colors. Also, I do the same thing on this side. Again, as I move toward the light, my shades will go lighter, of course. Obviously, this is the most easiest way to put it. So the main key and the main point over here is that you'd be able to control your hand pressure. That is the main key to all of the shadings that we do to tonality, to the shadings and everything, everything we do, we need control over our hand pressure. So that's it. I'll just continue the same way. And specifically, as I told you, on the edges of my ball, I'm going to go much darker, and I'm shading over here, too. It's not like I'm frameworking, because I'm not creating any lines. I shouldn't have any lines. That will actually ruin my work. I am basically fading my lines with my shading. But it would be definitely darker all around the edges. That's how it's done. So just like that, we are going to finish this beautiful shade. We go all the way through. Okay. Now, after I'm done with this pencil, I'm going to switch to my Basic pencil, and then I can add stronger shades into my work. You see? Now, I've got all the darkness that I could out of that pencil, but now I'm switching to a darker pencil in order to get darker shades and a stronger darkness. So I'm starting from here, which is considered the darkest part of my object, and I'm shading through I also should do that from this side, from this lower we cannot say quarter but lower part of our ball. But as you can see, I'm starting very dark, especially on the sides, on the edges. And then as I move toward the light again, I blended and I faded into lighter colors. But, you know, it's it's getting darker in general. It's getting darker in general, but especially on the darkest parts. That's how it's done. So, here we go. Again, I should increase the darkness of this area, making it much more darker. You see? I'm getting it totally dark and then I'll blend it into the rest of my shades. Here we go. Then for this area beneath my ball, we've got a shadow. You see this side that has the darkness, the shadow will actually go toward that side. You see, for example, in this object in this drawing, the darkest part of my ball is the left side because the light is coming from the right side. So the shadow is also dragged beneath it and toward the left side. So wherever is the darkest part of your work, the shadow is going to be placed right beneath it and dragged toward it. And again, obviously, the part of the shadow, which is the closest to the ball is going to be the darkest. And as I move away from the ball, as I go further from the ball, the darkness will decrease, and even the shadow gets a bit lighter. Okay. So here we are. Just like that, just as easy. I can also drag a bit of shadow over there, too, but not too much. D not overdo anything in your drawing that will just ruin it. So just keep shading very softly and smoothly. It's a shadow of our ball. Should also pay attention to the shape of the shadow, obviously. This should be kind of an oval and circle because the shadows are usually more stretched. So be careful about the shape as well. So again, I'll switch to my Basis pencil in order to get my shadow even darker, especially over here on the bottom. Now let's work on another geometrical shape this time. I'm going to use a square cube. First, obviously, I should create my square cube, sorry. That's what I'm doing here. First, I create it, and then I'm going to shade it. So first, I just have a square. Okay. I go out from these corners and then I'll turn it into a cube, which is what I need for my work. Okay. Now we are going to shape this cube. Now, if I imagine that my light source is over here, so the light is shining to it from the top. This side would be the lightest. This one would be a medium side, and this one, this side would be the darkest. So the top side would be the lightest. The side would be in the middle, it's not too dark and not too light, and the front side would be the darkest. So as I told you before, I'm using my HB pencil. I'm doing this one with my hatching method. So you can also see the difference between the methods that I'm using here. As you can see, I'm going in all different directions, one horizontally, one vertically, and I'm using my hatches for shading this cube. Then obviously, the lowest part of my cube, the bottom part of the cube is darker. And as I move off, it gets just a little lighter, not too much, but a little also from the left side toward the right side, it's going to be from the dark toward the light. But in general, this side is our darkest side. And again, I insist that I'm using the first method of shading, which was hatching. So I'm hatching in different directions to cover up everywhere and to shade the whole thing. Okay. And then I'm also starting to do it sideways in steep lines from the left down corner until the upright corner, just like that because the left hand corner is the darkest point. It's the darkest area of the whole side. Then I get to the side which has a medium light. It means that it's not too light and it's not too dark. So again, I start with my headging I'm shading horizontally, and then over that, we go vertically. And then sideways, of course. But as you can see, compared to the previous side, it's not as dark. It is dark but not that much. It's more darker actually on the bottom of the cube, and as I move up, I decrease my hand pressure to get lighter shades and lighter hatches. And that's because as I told you in the beginning, the light source is above my cube, right above it. Now this side would be the lightest part of my work. I don't want to just leave it white so because of that, I'm just going to light it very, very lightly and pale. So I'm shading it so lightly. Now, with the help of three color palettes, I could actually create a cube and volumize it. I used a very dark palette, a very light palette, and a medium one just to get my cube done. Something important that I should tell you is that in drawing and sketching, we do not use lines at all. Let's see. Let me just show it over here. Let me just create a pyramid here for you. I mean that we should not have any specific lines or any lines as borders between my different shades. This pyramid is created by lines, okay? But I shouldn't just frameworking, and I shouldn't emphasize on these lines. So because when you emphasize on these lines, it actually turns your volume into a flat surface. You see, for example, I'm just darkening this side of my pyramid. And then I actually shade this side a little bit lighter. And this is volumizing. You see, I do not have any lines in between them. But if I do frameworking, and you see if I emphasize on these lines, it turns it into a flat surface, not a volume, a flat surface. So in sketching drawing, we do not have any frameworking or emphasizing on the lines or creating them as borders or specifically, not at all. I again, emphasize on the fact that we shouldn't do that. So the difference between this light shade and the dark shade is actually separating them. The contrast is separating them. So we do not see any specific lines for that. Okay, let's move on. 5. Drawing and Shading an Apple: Hello again, and welcome to another new part of tutorials with me. Okay. Here in this part, we are going to create an apple from zero from the zero ground to the complete shape of it. And first of all, of course, I need a primary sketch and primary drawing for the apple and I want to create here. So first of all, I'm going to consider a square here. Then inside of this square, I get the general shape of my apple here from inside of this square. So I'll just place my apple in this square from here on till I get to the bottom and a bit of curve here. Okay. I also create this line. It's like creating an oval on top of it, but not, you know, not emphasizing on that or anything. Then I've got the center of the apple, and of course, there is a dip here. I mean, that there is a part that has gone in. There is a very big curve, which is the placement of the apples stem, the wooden part of the apple, which connects it to the branches. So we call it the apples stem. Okay. Okay. This is a very general shape of the apple that we could easily create. Now let's do the shading and make our Apple volume. This is the lightest part of my apple, and this is the darkest part of my apple because I placed the light source over there. So I started with my HB pencil from the beginning because I told you if you want smoother shades and softer shades, use your lighter pencil in the primary and background color of your work. This is the background color of my work. That's what we call it. It's an expression mostly. So for the background color and for the first and primary layers of my shades, I use my lighter pencil in order to that later, I get a softer and smoother result after all. Okay. Now I've got the curved in parts and the parts which are curved in or there is a dip anywhere, it should be darker, definitely darker. It doesn't matter if it's on the bottom or if it's on top. Even some lines are coming out of it and so on. Okay. So just like that, from this behind part of my SEM, I'll do the same thing. This also can separate some parts and pop the other parts out of the shape. So this was the darkest area of my apple. That's why I started from here to apply the strongest darkness and I can. Okay. So I just generally divide my apple into three parts. The bottom parts is the darkest part of my work. The middle part is middle as its name, and the top part would be the lightest part of my apple. This is the lightest part, and the middle part of my apple is not too dark or too light. It's actually a part for transferring the darkness strong darkness into the strong light. So the focus and the concentration of your darkness should be on the lower part on the bottom part of the apple. Okay. Then I consider more darkness for this area, obviously, as I just talked about it. Okay. And as you can see, even the shape of my shadings are a bit curved and I'm not using straight lines from one side to the other. I'm actually using some lines which are a bit bent down or curved. So I can also show the shape of the apple which is round. So with my shading, I should show the coloring, the volume, and also the shape of the object that I'm shading. That's why I'm using curve lines to show that it's something round. Okay. So I'll just continue doing that, especially on the edges. I've got more darkness, just as you can see them. Then I want to apply the darkness on the stem. The stem is mostly dark because it's wooden, you know. Can also show kind of a texture here, and even the shadow of the stem placing on the apple itself. So that should be definitely dark as well. Then I'll continue my shading all over here, making it lighter as I move up. Okay. Then I would also consider more shading for this area, especially on the left side, which, as I said, is the focus of our darkness and specifically on the bottom. So bottom left. Here we are. And even for these lower areas, I need shades, but not as much as the bottom part. I mean, in the middle areas, I also am shading, but as you can see as I'm moving up, decreasing the hand pressure and getting the shades that I want in the colors that I want. But Okay. Then just like that, I'm going to switch to my Basics pencil because I've got all the darkness that I could out of my normal pencil. So I switch to my basics in order to add a stronger darkness into my work and make it darker wherever it needs, and just complete this shading here. So here we go. Then, for example, over here, which I've got the darkest part of my work, I'm going to say darker, obviously, and I can even have more darkness or better say stronger darkness with the pencil that I'm using right now. The way I'm applying it over here, you see? I'm getting it really, really dark. Strongest darkness that is possible here. So and I should also work on the center of the apple, especially the deep part. As long as I'm holding this dark pencil, the B six pencil, I should also work on this dipped area around the stem. I have to make it darker here. I would also work on the stem a little and on the shadow of it placing the apple. And so easily it's done now. See? Now, in order to have a more professional and better sketch and drawing, and your hand actually gets better at work. It's better for you to work on so many different objects possible. You should practice a lot on so many different objects. You can even use a picture or even place the object in front of you and start sketching or drawing it because that would actually make you a very professional and a very good artist and drawer. So in order to have a better and more professional outcome, you have got to practice a lot over and over again, do different objects, use different shading techniques, just to make your hand more comfortable with it. And, of course, I do not forget about the shadow of my apple. And as I told you before, the shadow is exactly underneath our object, and it's been dragged toward the darker part of my apple. The bottom is totally dark. I even emphasize it on the apple itself a little. And then, of course, beneath it, below it, I get the shadow. And as I move further away from the apple, my shadow gets lighter. I also drag it a little toward right, but not too much. Most of it is dragged toward left, if you can see. So there is a little on the right side, but most of it is on the left. And again, I emphasize that as I move further, my shades will just get lighter and lighter. The shadow gets lighter. So here we are. We've almost got it and we're almost done with it. Let me just switch to my basics again in order to move over the shadow one more time, getting better darkness over here and just make the whole thing, the whole shadow a bit softer and smoother. So here we go. And, you know, don't make it too hard for yourself. Just take it easy and repeat it as much as you can, as much as you need to. To be comfortable with drawing and shading to be comfortable with both of them by your hand, by your mind, even by your eye, as much as you, I mean, it's very say the more you observe paintings, you observe the objects and their shading in front of you, you can apply them better as well. And as you can see, and I told you in the previous part, I do not have any frameworking or any specific lines showing. Basically, I have faded all of the lines into my shading, so I hope you've enjoyed it. It was useful for you and I hope you practice a lot and get perfect in it. See you in the next tutorials.