Goldfish drawing

[betta lover1507]

i love shading X) it gives it that 3D effect and more realistic too

[Wolfie305]

Only certain types of shading can make a cartoon "realistic" and even then its hard to do because if you have cartoony lineart, not much else can be done to make it less cartoony. Cell shading is perfect for cartoons.

[betta lover1507]

well i don't know what cell shading is but okay XP lol

[ZergyMonster]

This is an example of Cell Shading:

[betta lover1507]

oh, XP

[Wolfie305]

I used cell shading in the goldfish, with a bit of highlighting. Normally, I do a gradient shading with the cell shading for my illustrations, but I didn't do the graident shading for thesis so I had to stay consistent.