Okay so I got a touchpad and started doing cartoon-ish faces. Here’s a a friend I did and my problem is that I don’t know how to do the shadows. I cannot understand the way the shadows have to be. Can you help me ? This is where I am so far:
(self-taught)
This sounds a little obvious, but I’m not trying to be patronizing. Think about where the light source would be coming from. That will tell you where the shadows would fall. Overall, I think what you have here is looking pretty good.
You need to study a little anatomy and some lighting views.
Here is a goggle images to help you “see”
Note how the shadows follow the bone structure, not just random arcs.
And note how the nose casts a shadow and where it goes depending on the direction of the light source.
And don’t get all hung up on shadows having to be exactly like shadows … they can be really subtle or not. It all depends on the narrative.
Also … Shade and Shadow are two different elements which can describe ‘form’.
https://www.crystalrassi.com/for-artists/2017/9/6/shade-vs-shadow
I’d show you my buddies work but the link would prolly get flag … sigh … don’t know how to protect a link.
thank you all for the replies, i read some stuff about the anatomy of the face and the article about shade/shadow, it helped me a lot. ill post the results later if yall interested 
once again thank you
Nothing wrong with linked content that is helpful and pertinent to the conversation. It’s not the same as some spammy sales pitch 
Thanks for the clarification RedKittieKat.
Warning: Subject matter contains images of violence and some nudity …
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