Don’t make these shading mistakes

I genuinely thought I was ready to teach people how to render, but uh, I think I’ll need to study a bit more before I can give better tips. Digital painting is really hard! Anyway, I decided to paint Frieren from an anime I’ve been enjoying recently, and the fanart was long overdue. 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - Determining the Light Source/Cel Shading 01:38 - Core shadow 02:08 - Ambient Occlusion 02:33 - Mistake #1: Double shadows 03:53 - What color are shadows? 04:36 - Mistake #2: Wrong shadow colors 06:51 - Mistake #3: I messed up her face 08:33 - Mistake #4: I draw hands like AI 09:20 - Mistake #5: Double shadows, again 10:09 - Subsurface scattering 11:08 - Final touches 12:02 - Finished, but there are things to improve on 13:49 - secret Paintovers By Streamed on Edited by @chashuu0 BGM too much work by VeryGoodMan 日曜の午後 by KK