So I am doing the Triumphant tree tutorial and I have a question about shading. My shading of the shadows on the rocks below just doesn't look the same. I am doing them using hatching lines, and it just looks like a bunch of straight lines for a shadow. The tutorial shows it sort of blended, and textured. What am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure what tutorial you're talking about. One of Brenda's lessons? **Sorry, just went back and checked again and found the tree lesson you talked about.

If you posted your drawing we could get a better idea of what you mean.

There isn't hatching in this lesson that I can see. It is simple shading, just covering the paper with graphite in an even layer and 'squirkling' which is random squiggles more or less. If you follow the directions and study the images in that lesson you should be able to complete the drawing with little problem.

As for hatching, well yes it is a bunch of straight lines, but how close together you put them will affect how dark the value will become. Also crosshatching, where you put your lines at a different angle to your original lines will increase the value also. Most shadowing is done with a combination of hatching and crosshatching, with lines varying in how close or far they are apart.