We were supposed to draw these draped sheets and use cross hatching to show shading.
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The linework is good but your cross hatching needs work. It’s not just interconnecting lines, you can use shorter lines and tighter interlacing for darker parts and to better suggest the texture. Stylisitic shading is my jam, I wish I could show you, it’s hard to describe art technique through text.
Thank you for the advice! By suggesting the texture do you mean like showing more depth by making it darker or something else?
Here’s an older thing I did but the shading is I think a bit more understandable as for how i did it compared to later more advanced stuff. It’s not all cross hatching, there’s a bunch of regular hatching and stippling but they’re usually seperate. Give it a zoom in and look close at the shading and hopefully that will help with what I’m getting at.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/64431700@N08/5859802221/in/photostream
For cross hatching big areas, is it better to do a bunch of little sections of them going in their own direction like what you did in that one area?
Not necessarily darker but you could definitely make you lines shorter, think little hastags, you also don’t just want a cross cross pattern. I posted some art a bit back and I go HAM on the hatching so I’ll see if I can find some examples.
I’ll preface this by saying I’m terrible at crosshatching because I have zero patience; conceptually, cross hatching is depicting the form and the value through lines. Plan out your value scale (pick between starting with the darkest darks or with the midtones) and try to really depict the forms. Folds and drapes are pipes being pulled by gravity in certain directions. So It would be good to see more “tubularity” in the folds as depicted by the values. Also don’t be afraid to go darker across the entire compositon scale. Make sure your hatches are not just diagonal because it kills the illusion of three dimensions.
Amazing job though, good solid start and better than what I’ve done lately!
Well explained. Overly detailed shading is one of my favorite things to do drawing wise. I’ll just draw weird shapes and shade them cool for fun. They pay people to ink and shade things right? That might actually be a dream job.
Thank you for giving a detailed reply! For the “tubularity” would that be making the hatches “U” shaped?
It’s not about a specific shape, it’s finding the real existing thing in your object and depicting that in the illusion of 3D. Maybe the U but it’s “coming at you”, so have some extra paper and work out the different strokes.
The best way I have had cross contours explained to me is: imagine you are running your finger through the subject and replicate its dips, valleys, and peaks with the stroke of your pencil or the value you are creating. So you want to have your crosshatches to visually represent the volume while also doing the value work.
Pop open a charles gibson image or look at other artists famous for crosshatching and look at how they did clothes.
Hell yeah, love those lines, looks great!
Cross shading is one of those things that’s quite difficult to start getting right, like there’s a lot of little decisions regarding line length and density and so in you have to make, and tbh I’m extremely bad at it so I’m not really one to even offer advice lol. Proud of u for sharing.
ay yo that is a sick sheet
Could use more contrast. Darker darks. Also crosshatching can be a pretty flexible technique. Wrapping the lines across the form can be a good practice. Durer drawings are a good example of it. Hope that helped or wasn’t too annoying
