When you can render sets of hatching lines well, you discover a very fast and simple way to achieve realistic shading in your drawings. Many different styles of hatching sets can be rendered, from lines that are very noticeable, to lines drawn so closely together that they look like a solid tone.

Preview lesson F01 - Hatching Value Scales

A very valuable lesson.

When drawing my lines very close together can I go back over them or do I need to make them almost touch?

This is a very useful lesson indeed! I do have a question though - I'd like to know when you should use hatching or cross hatching - or is it a matter of personal preference? I much prefer just plain hatching, but am not sure it it is always the right thing to do! Sylvia

Would be great to see a lesson about how to do this shading technique with different shapes. For example, the hands drawings Brenda did, used that technique but looks really hard to do, would be nice to see some ideas to practice this technique

Not getting smooth values yet, is it cheating to go over the hatching?

This is a good lesson. I need more practice to get my make my value scale more accurate.

Like Dustbunny asked, I want to know if it's okay to go over the other lines. When I hatch I would go over lines when I can't make them right next to each other.

This lesson was great. I was really looking forward to start hatching. I even drew a girl's face when I did the part on hatching different lines and I hatched hair. This explained a lot.

And well I did go over some of my lines too when they were too many white spaces in between and it still looks fine so I guess it's okay! But after a while, I started hatching close enough.

My guess is that its a hybridtheres that word again of the Major and minor pentatonic scales, some thing alot of good players employ. The trick is knowing what notes from the two scales work together well.

Well done and learned a bunch!

This has been a very usefull lesson!