Here are my first attempts at shading figures. It takes a really long time to try and make the lead precisely gradual go from light to dark. After shading a shape with a pencil, I tried shading a sphere with coal and I really liked it because, 1. It takes less time to shade and 2. It is really easy to blend the coal.
In this project, we had to overlap these three shapes. I have learned how to make a shape look alive and real rather than just flat because now I know that light and shadows can visually define an object. Values are the different shades of gray between white and black. I used values to translate the light and shadows that I see into shading, creating the illusion of a third dimension.