What is hatching in a drawing technique?

Hatching, also called cross-hatching, technique used by draftsmen, engravers, and other artists who use mediums that do not allow blending (e.g., pen and ink) to indicate shading, modeling, and light and shade.

Is hatching a mark making technique?

Hatching- Creating an image using parallel lines. When shading a sphere using this technique the highlights will have only a few lines spaced out while the shadows will have many lines close together. All of the lines should be facing the same direction using this technique.

What are the different hatching techniques?

Let’s take a look at six basic forms of hatching and crosshatching.

• Parallel hatching.
• Contour hatching.
• Crosshatching.
• Fine crosshatching.
• “Basket” or “woven” hatching.
• “Tick” hatching.

Why is hatching used in drawing?

Hatching (hachure in French) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines. (It is also used in monochromatic heraldic representations to indicate what the tincture of a “full-colour” emblazon would be.)

What are three characteristics of mark making?

Why use gestural qualities? Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat.

When do you use cross hatching in drawing?

Cross hatching is a linear drawing technique that can create texture, light, shading and dimension by drawing lines both close together and apart. Hatching is when the lines all go the same way, cross hatching when they go in 2 or more opposite directions.

What kind of marks do you use in random hatching?

Random hatching uses layers of short, straight marks. Various textures result depending on whether these short hatches are applied vertically, at right angles, following a contour or at random angles. Stippling

What do you do with a marker to draw something?

Lift the marker from the paper with each new line to form striped hatching (overlapping lines) that can imitate rough surfaces, such as wood. By moving your marker unevenly in various directions, you achieve a chaotic filling suitable for adding random texture, such as you would use for foliage.

What kind of markers do I use to make marks?

The media I used for this exercise were a variety of graphite pencils, colour pencils, felt tips, Bic biros, Art Liner drawing pens, a 1mm Marker and Charcoal; plus a number of mark making techniques such as hatching, cross hatching, stippling, squirkling and point and side shading.