I am trying to learn some better shading so I am practicing by making my own graphics.

the circle was tiny so I made it larger and it turned out looking really cool so yeah. The tree took like 10 minutes.

Nice work :)

u serious -,- ?

I'm a beginner. Just practicing

Toad-V he may have caught the blorbs. (bowsers inside story reference)

Pixel mario- shaded edition ;D

shaded link :D

Cup of joe.

Classic PC pointer, but shaded.

Nice graphics sir :3.

For - the - love - of - God
Please stop using the gradient tool, never use the gradient tool.

Once you stop using it, you will legitimately improve ten fold.

Stupid question here, I would like to improve, but what the heck is the gradient tool.....

Thanks :3

The gradient tool is a tool in many graphics applications that allows you to define 2 or more colours, it then creates a colour transition from that one colour, to the next and so on giving an effect which is what you seem to be using for your graphics.

How I shade: (I use paint.net)
1. create the object with no shading
2. Use the colour picker to get the colour i want to start with
3. Make it lighter by clicking window then colours.
4. click more
5. slide S or V to make it lighter
6. Apply to object closest to light source
7. Slide S or V to make it a couple shades darker
8. Apply beside the part closest to light source
9. Repeat 7 and 8 until it is completely shaded
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Goomba :D

even if you're not using gradient the way your shading it looks like it

shade it in a more natural way.
make shiny/darker spots, try "dithering" -google it.

transitioning light to dark isn't really shading

Couldn't have said it better myself. +rep(when I'm able to)