• October 30, 2008 - Shading - 03 Cross-hatching

So I've shown you how to shade a cylinder, but you may be wondering about other shapes. When starting your drawing, you first loosely lay down the outlines, the edges. After refining the rough lines, you may think, "What next?" Well, let me show you! 1) I'll use a cube for now. (This is a cube made from my kneaded eraser!) From my lamp I have a strong light source, creating some dramatic shading and shadow: 2) I roughly sketched the outlines: 3) Here I began loosely throwing out some lines: 4) Started to add the darkest parts: 5) Added the texture and more shading by throwing out a mish-mash of hatching (notice the hatching comes in "chunks" or "sets" of lines headed in similar directions): 6) Filled in more shading, via hatching: 7) The shadow starts to appear as well: 8) Finishing up; shading, shadow details: I have some other pictures here that should give you an idea about how to handle other shapes as well. a. good hatching b. layering your hatching c. not good hatching - you usually don't want to see where you pencil turned around and made a curve. It just looks sloppy. d. you can be rough and sketchy! be creative, let loose, and have fun! Shading an object with 90º angles can make it look flat and dull (a & b). This can usually be cured by adding diagonal lines. Cross-hatching with diagonal lines from the beginning keeps it looking lively. And you can follow the contours while shading, adding depth as well as shape! Remember: You don't have to be perfect! I hope this helped explain cross-hatching more in-depth. God bless you as you practice!

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