How to Draw Crosshatching & Hatching

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French at JayFrenchStudios.com and I'm going to show you how to draw hatching and crosshatching. Alright, to draw crosshatching and hatching, you need an object first. So we're going to do something that's just a very odd shape - a football. That sort of almond shape. Get our stitching in there and white stripe. O.k., first we'll talk about hatching. Hatching is essentially, several lines, usually done very quickly, where you use pressure to start out strong and thick and lift as you go to get them to be thinner as you go along. In this case we want them a little curved so I'm gong to turn this upside down. Really would want that more curved. It's always easier to curve this way than inward. Now I'm doing these very far apart. Most of the time that you use hatching, you would actually probably keep them tighter, depending on what kind of a look you're going for. If you're going for a turn of the century newspaper illustration look, you would want them this far apart. You'd probably want them even more thick at the bottom. Now you use crosshatching using the same concept but you start there and you continue by going in the opposite direction. Now again, you have to pressure at first, lifting as you go along the strokes and make it lighter as it gets along. And since they're crossing, they're making even more of definition of darkness at the end getting lighter at the top. Crosshatching can actually be taken even further and follow the perimeter of the image where you make lighter lines as you go along. And that's how to get started with hatching and crosshatching."