Shading

[draygin]

So I was trying to think of what I could make for practice and for some reason I settled on making an anchor.

I've been trying to get the shading but for some reason maybe due to how long it's been since I've done anything I can't get the shading right. I'm trying to figure out how to make the top part have the apperance of a donut shape with a curve in it. As well as the bar in the middle and stuff to have a curved look to it. I'm sure you guys know what I mean.


I'm trying to figure out do I do dark on edges and lighter as it gets to the center or one side light one side dark etc..?



What I was using for my inspiration:

http://www.myne.com/common/images/vectors/anchor.jpg

[Zideruic]

Actually it's pretty easy...you basically make a pallette of about...6-11 colors in a different shade of that gray you have there, imagine a source of light, and put the brighter colors where the light would reflect, and the dark areas where the light would least affect it...but then you need to have a fade from light, to dark, which is where the colors in between the darkest and lightest on your pallete come into the process, you simply blend the colors in between in a texture such as rough metal(the archor) by blending it with dots overlapping in each shade which makes it look rougher.