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[Anarchangel]

I’m not really sure how much advice I could give on that subject as I still consider myself kind of a novice.

I suppose what I normally do is imagine a fixed light source somewhere around the character and use shading to place either light reflections where that light would hit the body and shadows where the body blocks that light. Like under the chin. I put shadows there on pretty much every character. But for that I tend to use a head with dark colours and the alpha reduced a bit. That varies depending on the colour and stuff of the base clothes etc. Just mask that onto the body/shoulder etc under the chin and head and you get a nice shadow.

The colours I use for shading tend to be just one shade lighter than the base colour they’re placed on. Shadows are obviously the opposite.

Was that even a little bit helpful? I would highly suggest talking to someone like ams, who does shading a lot better than me and could probably explain it a lot better too.