Halftone Studio Reference Library
Halftone Studio (Jake Taplin, Ramon Hurtado)
Shading is trained by copying lit forms, and beginners usually practice from badly lit phone photos where the terminator is invisible. This supplies white casts under a single controlled light — the classic atelier value exercise — with no signup. Downloadable library of 113 references: plaster casts of figures and portraits photographed under controlled light, plus master drawings and paintings. Source material for cast drawing and value studies, free to browse and download without an account.
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line-of-action.com
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Prokopenko splits a drawing into light and shadow families, then names every part: terminator, core shadow, halftone, center light, reflected light, occlusion shadow, cast shadow, and highlight versus reflection. Seven minutes, free tier of Figure Drawing Fundamentals.