Rendering
What is Rendering??
The actual definition of rendering is making a drawing more realistic, detailed, or look 3d, but I use rendering to be everything I do at the end of a drawing. It's definitly not the right term to use, but it's what I use anyway...
What it means for me, is that the lineart, flat colors, and basic shading are done, so I make a couple layers on top of everything else to add details, extra shading, and more! It's one of the funnest parts of drawing for me, I love it.
More or Less
I've done rendering in many different ways, but it can all be put on a scale from fully rendered, to not rendered at all. In the first drawing, I started with only flat colors and lineart, and everything else was done on 1 or 2 layers on top of it. The second drawing is more of a sketch/quick drawing, so there is no shading or excess details. Only lineart is rendered with a bit of shading on the glasses. The third drawing is what most of my drawings end up like. There is actually quite a bit of rendering but none of it actually looks like it. Before rendering all I had was very basic shadows and the flat color, and I added lighting and clothing details with rendering, then added a couple texture layers on top.
![](https://orangeyouglad.neocities.org/archive/photo/renderex.png)
Details and Stuff
Chosing colors to shade with can be just as importatnt as picking flat colors. There are two ways I've done shading and that is with a layer set to multiply, or with a normal layer. When using a multiply layer I usually pick 1 or 2 colors to use for all of the shadows, while with a normal layer I choose a new shadow color for every section I'm putting a shadow in.
![](https://orangeyouglad.neocities.org/archive/photo/renderex2.png)