Welcome. ^_^ Sure I can give some pointers on shading. Imagine that it's a real person/thing that you're drawing and the sun is shining on it. From whatever direction the sun is coming from, the opposite side of the character will have a darker shading, like a shadow. The side that is nearest the light will have a lighter shading or a "shine." For the darker shading, create a new layer and use black to make shadows on the parts where darker shading is needed. Then you can adjust the opacity of the layer to where it looks good enough for you. For the lighter shading, use white and make shines on where the lighter shading is needed. You can use the opacity trick for both types of shading. You can use whatever technique you like, but that's what I do. I'm not entirely too skilled in shading, but I'm getting better. There are some very good artists on here who do amazing shading. My two favorites are
Oofay and
TheWolfsgirl90. I am not sure whether they are willing to give pointers, but looking at their art can surely teach you a bit. Some of the official site artists are very good too.
I love Peeps. I can eat about 2,359,080,395 boxes of them in a day. xD My favorites are the purple bunnies. :3 I can't wait until Easter either. Hopefully my dad will get me a box of them. *noms imaginary Peep*
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