Dark shading around Edges?

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For some reason that I can’t quite understand, I’m getting dark areas around one area of the handle on a coffee mug I made. It only appears when I set smooth, but it is rather ugly and something I’d prefer not to have to deal with

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/doubleedged/mugissue.jpg
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That area was created by creating faces from the adjacent vertices, if that makes any difference.

Any ideas are appreciated :slight_smile:

2

check your normals-direction, then flip those pointing inside. or try ctrl-n (recalculate outside).

3

Done and done, problem fixed.

Thank you!!