Uncomfortable's Advice from /r/ArtFundamentals

Can I use shadows for the plants with no details?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/rsb4ap/can_i_use_shadows_for_the_plants_with_no_details/

2021-12-30 20:19

Realistic_Battle_501

I'm in lesson 3 and part of it'd work is to draw 8 plants 4 with no detail can I still use shadows to show where one leaf ends and another begins for example or does it count as detail?

Uncomfortable

2021-12-30 21:00

You can certainly draw the shadows cast by your constructed forms in those drawings. What we're leaving out of those drawings is any implication or consideration for the textural forms themselves - those are also conveyed using cast shadows, but what matters is the nature of the form casting the shadow, not the shadow itself.