Hatching and cross hatching

Cross hatching is a classic shading technique in drawing. If you like doodling away for hours, you might also like adding intense cross hatching to your drawings, building shade progressively layer by layer, as the process is quite relaxing and very similar to zentangling. In a series of recent portraits, I have been using hatching and cross hatching for shading. I also find interesting to explore the contrast between the curvy lines of a portrait and the geometric lines of the cross…

First of all, I want to congratulate all of you who thought about my challenge and are going to step up this year to making your own doodles...

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A drawing of an apple using hatching technique

Cross hatching has been such an interesting challenge. I nominated it to stretch myself (and the Challenge members) and thought I'd hate...

This woulda been useful when I was learning how to crosshatch. Maybe if I ever teach others how I'll use this example