shadow

Darkness caused by an object blocking light. Use this tag for shadows that are especially strong, noticeable, or interesting.

If there is no shading at all, consider tagging with flat color.

Examples

Spotlight

Window shadow

Pov shadow

Cat shadow puppet (meme)

Dressed shadow (meme)

Related tags

Direction

• sidelighting
• backlighting
• overlighting
• underlighting

Types

• colored shadow
• crack of light
• dappled sunlight
• different shadow
• dressed shadow (meme)
• drop shadow
• eyes in shadow
• face in shadow
• hand shadow covering breasts (meme)
• penis shadow
• ominous shadow
• shade
• shaded face
• shading eyes
• shadow puppet
• silhouette
• tree shade
• window shadow
• vignetting
• void face

Shading techniques

• halftone
• hatching
• linear hatching
• woven hatching
• crosshatching
• chiaroscuro
• painterly

See also

• dark
• darkness
• light
• Shadow (Persona)
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• umbrakinesis

The following tags are aliased to this tag: shadows (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: colored_shadow and pov_shadow (learn more).