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Hatching

Hatching uses parallel lines of varying length and spacing to create tonal values, while cross-hatching overlays parallel lines to further darken values or imply texture. The document discusses these drawing techniques and provides examples from Giorgio Morandio's 1933 pen and ink still life and Albrecht Durer's 1493 work "Six Pillows", which combines hatching and cross-hatching to depict form.

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Hatching

Hatching uses parallel lines of varying length and spacing to create tonal values, while cross-hatching overlays parallel lines to further darken values or imply texture. The document discusses these drawing techniques and provides examples from Giorgio Morandio's 1933 pen and ink still life and Albrecht Durer's 1493 work "Six Pillows", which combines hatching and cross-hatching to depict form.

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Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching

Hatching is a drawing technique in which value created through a series of thin strokes or lines
that are more or less parallel. The lines can be short or long. How close together they are
influences the tone, with closer lines creating darker tones.
Cross-hatching is an extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn
closely together, to create value or the illusion of texture in a drawing.

Cross-hatching value scale 0-9

Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching

Giorgio Morandio, Still Life, 1933, pen and ink

Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching

Albrecht Durer, Sechs Kissen (Six Pillows), 1493

Here Durer uses a combination of hatching and cross-hatching lines that also suggest
the planes and surfaces of forms, as in a cross-contour drawing.

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