/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3850275
no, the reasons shading with black is bad has absolutely nothing to do with fucking carbon particles or whatever. Shifting the value of your colors downward without adjusting the hue and saturation will make your shading look muddy and gross no matter what medium you're using. That's what shading with black means.

It's easy for a new artist to assume "shadows = dark, so just make the color darker, ezpz", and get shit results, that's why it's cautioned against so often. It doesn't have anything to do with literal black shadows like you'd see in comics