Q&A for How to Draw a Shadow

Try doing blind contour drawings, where you just look at the object that you're drawing without looking at your paper. This forces your eyes to go really slowly around the object and have your hand follow your eye on the paper.

It is the same concept. However, the shadows are more of a mixture of soft and crisp edges. It would help to have a reference.

If you're skilled enough to control the pressure, then yes. Or, you could try practicing crosshatch to produce gradients with the pen.

it is pretty much the same concept, but instead of using square blocks, the shadow will be more detailed by using an emerald. Try using hatching and cross hatching to get a texture for it.

First figure out where the light is coming from, then make the area facing the light brighter, and the areas facing away from the light darker.

Draw the shadow vaguely shaped like the person and opposite to the light source. If the source is lower, then make the shadow longer and vice versa. If possible, for a more realistic effect, try to fade the shadow at the edges.

In certain light levels and colors, shadows can be yellow. Usually, this is caused by indirect light.

A shadow in a bright room might be starker or incomplete. If another light source interrupts it, it may fade out partially. If several light sources hit an object at different angles in a bright room, it might cast several light shadows that are darker where they overlap.