My Art THREE

How I do my general shading in dark environments

Wanted to make a tutorial-

I made this on ibispaint, but this goes for Procreate as well

First I start with two layers. A circle will be the object I'm shadong, and there's the background. Preferably a dark color 

I go to the layers and make a new one. I either make it a clipping mask or select the layer and put it on hard light or multiply. Preferably hard light.

I fill that layer with a dark coloured of my choice. I usually use the background color if it's a flat color.

I then pick a brush to shade with. Depending on your style, it could be a brush with defined edges or an air brush. I use both.

I select a lighter color for highlights

Like this!

I almost never do this but i can also select a darker color for shadows.  Reason I don't do this is because I already use extremely dark colors

You can blur it with a brush (or use the smudge tool, Procreate users) to soften it

Yeah that's about it lol

Just try to think of the overall thing as a 3d shape. Where is your light source? Where would the light bounce off of, and where would there be shadows?

Feel free to use references as well :3