how to go from dark to light shadow by cast shading especially using a fineliner for example in the picture given in link how do we represent depth without light shadows or using fineliner
That image in particular already has a good gradient to it:
All that's needed is to bring it out using fineliner pen is to make the parts darker than a certain shade black, and parts which are lighter than certain shade pure white. Most image editing programs have a Threshold or Levels filter that can do this. Of course, you want to do this manually rather than relying on a filter.
Note that when you do this some information from the image will be lost. This is expected and actually good. You do not want to draw every little detail of the original image, doing so would be too time consuming and make the drawing too noisy.
Now not all texture images have such a nice, well behaved, gradient to them. So you'll need to learn to design those shapes yourself using information about form you get from the picture and mentally calculating where the cast shadows will be. Which is the point of the exercise after all.
thank you so much for the insight
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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