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Shadowing

I’m putting this one here to show you the importance of detail. Without the shadowing on the cloak and the definition on the muscles this image would look static. Let’s have a look at the cloak. Firstly notice how one side is turned in, and one is turned out. Turning the cloak in on one side allows you to show its movement in the wind and also lets you define shape on it. The edge is not straight, it has various curvatures. If however I wanted to focus heavily on the character inside the cloak, to focus more on his mood than on his image, I would have used much less definition here and perhaps left both sides turned outwards with straight edges.