Ethereal "Em" Williamson

Writer: EtherealWill

@ethereal-will Creating for Verdant Wind!

My FE Art Scuffle attack on @junowritesstuff

I appreciate that you think I'm good at it. In all fairness, the areas I shade aren't always **technically correct.

Um, I could try to provide tips?

I used to rely a lot on cross hatching, the crisscross lines you see for shadows on my older drawings. Cross hatching is a good method and it gives pieces a certain charm. But lately I've been more into parallel hatching, the straight diagonal lines. In my opinion, it comes out looking a little more polished that. I like the sketchy, unpolished look of cross hatching a lot, though. You could experiment with different kinds of shading and see what looks good on your drawings? I still do that, even though I've been drawing for such a long time. There are several more methods than the ones I mentioned, and I'm sure there are some good tutorials on YouTube. **If you mean that you don't know where to shade, what I do is try to picture the sun or a light source in one place when I'm shading, and shade where I think the natural shadows would be. You can even lightly scribble a little sun in the corner of your drawing and erase it later! That was quite helpful for me for a long time until I could picture it in my mind better.

If your take on Edelgard is absolute moral purity or absolute moral rottenness, we will get nowhere together. I like her because she’s interesting. I really disagree with “she did nothing wrong” and “she did everything wrong.”