Shading

A good fashion sketch can look flat even when the silhouette is beautiful. Often, the problem is not the drawing. It is the colour. If the hue is too harsh, the dress looks childish. If the shade is muddy, the garment looks heavy. If the tint is weak, the design loses life. Colour theory helps you control all of this. This guide explains hue, tint, tone, and shade in simple language, with fashion design examples and easy painting exercises. Think of it as a practical colour m

A flat circle can become a shiny ball with just one magic trick: shading. Shading means making some parts of a drawing light and some parts dark, so the picture looks real and round. Think of a mango in sunlight. One side looks bright because light is falling on it. The other side looks darker because it is away from the light. That dark and light pattern is shading. This guide explains shading in simple words, so a 10-year-old student can read it, try it, and understand how

A colour wheel makes mixing less guessy. Instead of adding “a bit of this and a bit of that” until the colour turns muddy, you can see where a colour lives, which colours sit beside it, and which colours fight or balance it. This guide explains colour wheel theory in a practical way and shows how to build a 72-colour wheel from six basic colours. The six colours are: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet From these six, you will mix 12 shades in each colour family. That gives y