Drawspace lesson F02 - How to shade mountains using hatching techniques.

Hi all,

and welcome to Lesson F02 of a Drawspace art program. We're going back to draw the mountains we did in Lesson E03. In that lesson we were squirkling and this time well be hatching.

The sketch itself was a piece of cake to do, but the hatching was tricky. I might have drawn on a bigger scale than required but I had a real problem with keeping my hatching straight and long. How the hell do they do that?

After finishing and giving this sketch a second look, I've decided to do another one. The reason is that I didn't really like the way the grades turned out, so here it is.

It's not the best, but better than the previous. Still the making of long and straight hatches are a mystery to me.

If you guys have any idea/answer on the subject, do share here, I am intrigued :)

Have a great day,
Dalia

Drawspace lesson F01 - What is Pencil Hatching and how to do it?

Hi all,

and welcome to Lesson F01 of a Drawspace art program.
This is a new section and it also deals with the basics of shading (also see Lesson  B11).

This is the Hatching technique - you just hatch the object using different values pencils.
I read somewhere that it is believed that a good chef needs only one knife to cook a whole meal. I guess that the same might go with artists - single pencil/brush is all you need to create a piece of art.
So maybe it's not a single pencil, but it's still important to know how to use it properly.

This was a very nice exercise, very important too. I loved doing it.

Have a great day,
Dalia