here are so many groovy and important aspects to the subject of shadows that they deserve an article all to themselves. They are one of my favourite parts of a drawing. Let’s face it, when you’ve only got a 2B pencil and a bit of paper you can’t draw the brightest highlights at all, one of the magic parts of for me of the whole idea of monochrome drawing is the fact that the very lightest parts of any composition is completely blank paper, and if you have gotten all the proportions and all important shadows right, those bits of blank paper can create the illusion of being pretty much anything. It wouldn’t be drawing too long a bow to say that out of all the things the old master artist taught me about
