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Description
The stock photo is by ~Jello88 - [link]
And yes, I traced it It makes it easier to point out things.

1. Reference
If you're not used to shading horses, look at some photos. If you are comfortable, look at lots of horses anyway, you'll always learn something new.

2. Map
I traced my base sketch so that I had shading mapped out and my horse lined. Why trace? Because this way you can see what I'm trying to do compared to the photo better than if I had a sketch that was confusingly wrong
Mapping out our shadows is super important. Personally I rarely map in the sketch, but rather paint on my map over base colours. You can erase little bits of detail later on, but for the moment we want to have a definite light source.

3. Base Shadow
We have a base colour on, now we colour in the map with our first (and lightest) shadow.

4. Darker Shadows
Now we map out our secondary shadow and slap it on. Remember that in cell shading we are doing blobs of colour and not a heap of intricate work. If you haven't done much cell shading work, or even if you have, it's always good practice to see if you can make something look 3D using huge blobs of colour. and it's kind of fun
Want more shadows? Keep doing them like this step.

5. Refine and highlight
At this point I clean up my shadows (which I didn't do here sorry), and then map out my highlights.

Cell shading is a quick and simple way of shading something, and it's quite fun once you get the hang of it. It can also be taken further and be used to do some very intricate and detailed shading, such as seen in a lot of petsite art work. Your own immagination is your limit - this is just the very basic ideas

Description
The stock photo is by ~Jello88 - [link]
And yes, I traced it It makes it easier to point out things.

1. Reference
If you're not used to shading horses, look at some photos. If you are comfortable, look at lots of horses anyway, you'll always learn something new.

2. Map
I traced my base sketch so that I had shading mapped out and my horse lined. Why trace? Because this way you can see what I'm trying to do compared to the photo better than if I had a sketch that was confusingly wrong
Mapping out our shadows is super important. Personally I rarely map in the sketch, but rather paint on my map over base colours. You can erase little bits of detail later on, but for the moment we want to have a definite light source.

3. Base Shadow
We have a base colour on, now we colour in the map with our first (and lightest) shadow.

4. Darker Shadows
Now we map out our secondary shadow and slap it on. Remember that in cell shading we are doing blobs of colour and not a heap of intricate work. If you haven't done much cell shading work, or even if you have, it's always good practice to see if you can make something look 3D using huge blobs of colour. and it's kind of fun
Want more shadows? Keep doing them like this step.

5. Refine and highlight
At this point I clean up my shadows (which I didn't do here sorry), and then map out my highlights.

Cell shading is a quick and simple way of shading something, and it's quite fun once you get the hang of it. It can also be taken further and be used to do some very intricate and detailed shading, such as seen in a lot of petsite art work. Your own immagination is your limit - this is just the very basic ideas