(Each of these techniques are explored and demonstrated further down this page.) Shading Exercises In a Drawing Notebook. I like to start by the lightest area and then add layers of cross hatching until I reach the darkest area of the drawing. Project Suggestions: Chex Mix Cross-Hatching Drawing and Still Life They can be long, short or a mix, to break up tonal areas or indicate shapes and planes. Cross-hatching is a learned skill, a technical skill. The most important is to watch the angles of the cross lines, avoiding right, and sharply acute angles. 4. Row 2: cross hatching - pencil ; Row 3: contour - pencil; Row 4: lines - ink ; Row 5: stippling - ink [Note: The shading exercise is related to drawing.] Cross hatching is a fundamental technique to deepen values. Linear hatching, simply hatching in parallel lines. Basically cross hatching is an illusion created by sets of roughly perpendicular lines that looks like shadow, the darker the shadow the closer together the lines get. We want to draw another set of lines only this time we want these lines to be on a different angle. Crosshatch your second set of lines… One appeal of drawing with pen and ink is the clean, finished appearance that can be created. Cross hatching, a layer of hatched lines drawn at an angle over an existing layer of hatched lines. Creating Values through Lines: Hatching and Cross-hatching; Practice hatching & cross-hatching the forms (following contour of forms) Additional Activity: Students draw geometric forms from direct observation, then apply value with hatching and cross-hatching lines. This is the richest and most subtle form of crosshatching, and it might even read as a tonal or pencil-shaded drawing from far away. Layering creates darker tones. It involves filling a space with at least two sets of lines, with the second set crossing over the first to create a darker effect. Cross hatching can be applied as simple straight lines, just like parallel hatching, or it can follow the contours of the subject as below. These techniques include hatching, cross hatching, random lines, and stippling. Assignment: Do the following as often as needed Draw a long thin rectangle on a page in your drawing notebook. All art depends on technique at some level but cross-hatching is something you get good at and can get good at fast in just a few dozen short practice sessions. Start with a set of parallel lines. Crosshatching begins with the application of our second set of lines. Notice how great care was still used for keeping the lines parallel and evenly spaced! It's one of the few skills that really rests on technique. Hatching & Cross-Hatching Techniques with DrawingTeachers Master the fine art of hatching and cross-hatching shading techniques with this lesson, which includes a cross-hatching exercise using a rose as the subject. Fine crosshatching. 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