What types of shading are there? Is it just how subtle it is or are their more differences?
What type of shading do you guys like best to see and what shading do you use when making art? Do you think shading in art in necessarily to have a good art piece?
I wanna invite @anon68003072 and @MeghanWrites specifically to this thread since we’ve had conversations about this before!
I like my pictures to be 2D personally so no shading. 
because I think it matches my style more tbh. I definitely don’t think shading is necessary for a good art piece, but it does look nice.
However with that said, I will use different shades of black
Btw I’m not looking for advice or criticism so if you don’t like my drawing keep it to yourself 
Subtle
Personally I’m someone who’s for either no or very very subtle shading or as realistic as possibly shading, but yeah it’s important that you choose a type of shading that fits you.
In general I find the quality of line work in subtle shading art pieces more important than pieces with all out shading, since you just notice instability in the lines way easier, but that said art without shading can definitely be very nice and refreshing to look at in some way.
I already knew that part 
Is there a specific reason you like subtle shading or is it just your preference?
Otherwise it looks really weird
Noses don’t have big shadows if the face is in the light
I like the shading practices that my art teacher taught me
Shading isn’t only about shadows but also creating depth in art pieces, however I partially agree with you that the shading of the nose is easily overdone and I have to remind myself to not take it too far (and even then if I look back on it later it doesn’t always look right)
Can you expand on that a bit more? Like what these techniques are?
Hatching, cross-hatching, strippling…
Hmm, I’ve never heard of those techniques before, is it this? If so I like the style of cross-hatching the best I think 
I guess it’s too obvious that I draw digitally and not on paper
Uhh not really, hatching is a style where you use a black pen and the lines are closer together in dark areas and further apart in brighter areas?
I just follow my intuition when it comes to shading and it seems to work most of the time 
Ahh, yeah, that’s not too obvious in the image I showed, like how you do it. But I still think that style is super interesting and looks very nice!
It can yeah, the bigger the paper the better it’s gonna look
Often that’s how I do it as well, and I kinda feel like that is the right way since you really do it a way that is your unique style if you just follow your intuition.
Okay, I’ve never learned anything about these shading techniques, haha. So this thread is already pretty interesting for me 
The best way is to just study how light and shading works until you understand it and then shade every art piece individually in my opinion. My shading style usually completely depends on what I’m drawing, but most of the time I prefer lighter shading
