There are many resources to help with shading when you just start out in pocket styler studio. Shading clothing is overwhelming at first, but the more you try and practice, the more you learn about how to do realistic shading.
This tutorial is on shading pants.
Do the pants shape that you want, and this is what I have right now with glare and shadow erased:
I wanted a flowy pant at the bottom, so I did this modified scalloped edge.
To start, I’m going to pick a main shadow from the shadows tab:
I like this one on the far right for most of my pants, but it also depends on the silhouette of the pant you choose.
I do a lot of erasing and redrawing my own glare and shadows.
So, with the shadow I chose, it will look like this to start with. It helps give the pants some definition, but I want more.
Now, when shading, remember that regresses in the shape should be shaded darker, whereas the rounded parts where the shape “sticks out”, so to speak, should be highlighted/adding glare to lighten it. That is what will give the effect of the bottom being flowy with a modified pleated look.
I’ll show you what I mean.
these parts in red I want to lighten, either by erasing in the shadow brush or use a brush in the glare.
These areas in yellow, I want to shade darker.
When starting to shade, I use a medium size brush with a hardness of 1 and opacity of only about 20%, I want it to start sublte so that it doesn’t create a hard shading line, but instead makes it more realistic
I also use some of the studio’s folds to help me save time shading myself:
I like this one, and I arranged them so that the highlight was where I highlighed in the previous photo.
Then, I added my own shadow in the dark areas and glare in the light areas.
Once I am finished shading – this is the final product. I love the coloring on these pants – I hope you found this tutorial helpful!
