I found this amazingly helpful! Thanks for uploading so many easy to understand tutorials! My goal this year is to make my way through them and learn as much as possible. Any improvement in my art this year I owe to you :)
this is fantastic! as a beginner and a self taught, it is hard to find visual materials such as this. this video gave me some valuable insights about light and hatching, thank you💯
The knowledge in this video is invaluable to anyone focusing on drawing with pen and ink. I've watched it a few times now. I would love to see this topic redone with a bit better video as it is fading in and out quite a bit.
Ok, the video lost the focus sometimes, everybody knows, don’t go on saying the same nonsense in every comment. It is one of the best videos in the whole yt, thank you very much. Incredible. Go on!!!
Amazing information. It is very difficult to find information on this subject. I would suggest that you use manual focus on your camera to avoid losing focus! Thanks for the videos
I wanted to edit my original post. Although the camera quality is a bit wanting, this artist is very talented and this individual explains technique very well. I went back to view this video again and have applied this artist’s techniques in some of my own drawings and noticed dramatic quality improvement. Thank you.
Thank you for this extensive video explaining the hatching methods. I have been trying to find a helpful UA-cam video and i think yours will help me with shading (I love hatching btw).
I really appreciate how dense these teaching videos are, it makes it so easy to learn from them! Hatching is a new technique for me so I'm maybe a step previous to this video... How do I position my drawing arm? Is my elbow resting on the table? Or is it my forearm that's resting on the table? What angle should the drawing board be? Are there basic exercises to building up to cross hatching and where would I find them? I'm registered for the upcoming workshop and really looking forward to it! But I might need some preliminaries first. Thank you!
Interesting. I was just about to get started in on an automotive-to-ground cast shadow (VW Bus) and I think since I use cross hatching on the body etc I may use one direction for the underbody shadows.
Excellent information but your camera focus is pretty bad. Sorry but it was hard to watch and to see what you were doing. Other than that, you have a great talent, and it was very helpful.
My apologies for the poor focus (which, believe me, I’ve been well castigated for.) This tutorial was made before I knew what I was doing. I’m glad you found it useful nonetheless.
I’ve just cut myself a small 15 degree template out of some thin plywood to help train my eye. Hopefully with a bit of practice I will be able to dispense with it soon.
Interesting idea Rees! I've been doing this so long that I forget what difficulties one encounters when starting this medium. Let me know if this helped you, and I'll recommend this method to others.
Hi Mark. Are you using a ligher or watered down ink possibly? With Parker Quink black or Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black after just a layer or two it's pretty saturated and not capturing the subtleties?
This is amazing! You sure make it look easy!😆 How do get these super faint lines? I use a Preppy 0.2mm and yet even with light pressure, things come out bold with little variety.
Thank you for lesson! Can you tell please, is this ink diluted or color is bright? A have TWSBI Eco EF and it produces much darker line with black ink I'm using compare to this video.
My pleasure! It’s been awhile since this video was made, but I believe I was using Noodler’s Grey here, which is a transparent ink that can look black when you slow down, but generally puts down a softer lighter line that makes the gradual build up of value easier.
On contour hatching I have a question. Are you basically hatching at perpendicular to the “Normal” of the surface ? In essence if you are at the north pole (or south) your normal would be up/down so you contour horizontally (with an arc). As you go towards the centre the normal would be pointing more towards E or W so you hatch vertically ? From a physics/light perspective this would make sense because the normal would be direct bounce back light and scattered light would come off at 90 degrees to incident light. Since the surface is round, your normal perpendicular has to be round to. Cross hatchingis just shifted by 15 degrees to darken/interfere with the last hatching ?
If I understood your question, hatching can be done as you describe, (using longitudes and latitudes), but any angle of hatch will work so long as it consistently follows the forms. The same way one can draw a line on a sphere in any direction, one can choose an initial angle of hatch based on any number of factors (one of which is simply what is most comfortable for your hand). I’m not following your explanation of light, but really the prime consideration here is linear perspective,with foreshortened angles appearing either more horizontal or vertical on receding planes.
@@mkompan Perfect answer. Thanks for your feedback. Yes I realised after typing that longitudes and latitudes would be a better description. The other thing I have learned from another YT video is to follow the form (effectively project a cartesian grid [like an overhead projector with a grid] onto the form). The grid being rotated at whatever angle you like from what you are saying. Obviously projecting a cartesian grid on a perspective form will distort in perspective too, hence following that persective foreshortening too. Your rules on hatching angles would need to be applied to but now with this “projection mapping” taken into account. I’m sure there are lots of subtleties to learn later on like line weights, spacing and broken lines but for now this will get me down the right path I believe. Hopefully this approach will give me effective form and value from line.
The most complete and understandable video about light and hatching❤
@@rahanaderi2154 thank you!
I found this amazingly helpful! Thanks for uploading so many easy to understand tutorials! My goal this year is to make my way through them and learn as much as possible. Any improvement in my art this year I owe to you :)
You're welcome, Jo! I'm glad you found this tutorial helpful.
this is fantastic! as a beginner and a self taught, it is hard to find visual materials such as this. this video gave me some valuable insights about light and hatching, thank you💯
My pleasure! I’m glad you found this useful.
The knowledge in this video is invaluable to anyone focusing on drawing with pen and ink. I've watched it a few times now. I would love to see this topic redone with a bit better video as it is fading in and out quite a bit.
Thank you! I’ll have to redo this video at some point soon.
Thank you Marc, nice explanation!!!!
De nada. Es un placer!
Thank you, Marc. It's magical the way the image emerges as the hatching layers are applied. Very beautiful. I will stick to the first method for now.
You’re welcome Robert. Parallel hatching is wonderful training for making your hatching consistent and also happens to be a beautiful way to draw.
Please make an updated version of this. I think its better than the other sorta recent one you made. :)
I’ll do that soon. :)
@@mkompan Ty so much T-T
Ok, the video lost the focus sometimes, everybody knows, don’t go on saying the same nonsense in every comment. It is one of the best videos in the whole yt, thank you very much. Incredible. Go on!!!
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. Will keep on going on (with better focus).
A lot of great information here and a great diving off point. Been looking for a video like this. Thanks!
You're welcome, Taylor! I'm glad you found my video helpful.
Thank you very much for this! You're content's totally a big help for a struggling artist like me.
You're very welcome!
this video has so much value! thank you for helping me understand crosshatching
You’re welcome! I’m glad you found my tutorial useful.
Amazing information. It is very difficult to find information on this subject. I would suggest that you use manual focus on your camera to avoid losing focus! Thanks for the videos
Thank you Hernan! The annoying autofocus issue has been fixed in my more recent videos.
I wanted to edit my original post. Although the camera quality is a bit wanting, this artist is very talented and this individual explains technique very well. I went back to view this video again and have applied this artist’s techniques in some of my own drawings and noticed dramatic quality improvement. Thank you.
Sorry this made you nauseated, Matt. The issue has been fixed in my more recent videos.
Thank you for this extensive video explaining the hatching methods. I have been trying to find a helpful UA-cam video and i think yours will help me with shading (I love hatching btw).
You’re welcome! I’m glad you found my video useful.
I really appreciate how dense these teaching videos are, it makes it so easy to learn from them! Hatching is a new technique for me so I'm maybe a step previous to this video... How do I position my drawing arm? Is my elbow resting on the table? Or is it my forearm that's resting on the table? What angle should the drawing board be? Are there basic exercises to building up to cross hatching and where would I find them? I'm registered for the upcoming workshop and really looking forward to it! But I might need some preliminaries first. Thank you!
You’re welcome, Sharon. I will cover hand position, studio set up and exercises during the workshop, so stay tuned.
Very good teaching. I will put it in practice. Thank you
Thank you Jose!
Interesting. I was just about to get started in on an automotive-to-ground cast shadow (VW Bus) and I think since I use cross hatching on the body etc I may use one direction for the underbody shadows.
Glad this was useful to you!
Amazing and very useful video.
Thanks Linda!
Thanks for a great video! I appreciate how dry the extra fine pen you are using is. What's its name / brand?
You’re welcome! I’m using a Twisbi Eco here, one of my favorites.
Excellent information but your camera focus is pretty bad. Sorry but it was hard to watch and to see what you were doing. Other than that, you have a great talent, and it was very helpful.
My apologies for the poor focus (which, believe me, I’ve been well castigated for.) This tutorial was made before I knew what I was doing. I’m glad you found it useful nonetheless.
It was awesome 💯 thank you so much for making this incredible video 👌🏻
You’re very welcome! Glad you liked it. :)
I’ve just cut myself a small 15 degree template out of some thin plywood to help train my eye. Hopefully with a bit of practice I will be able to dispense with it soon.
Interesting idea Rees! I've been doing this so long that I forget what difficulties one encounters when starting this medium. Let me know if this helped you, and I'll recommend this method to others.
Great instruction, but I sure wish you would redo it to keep the paper and image in focus. Thank you.
Thanks and sorry for the very poor image quality. I will redo this at some point.
Hi Mark. Are you using a ligher or watered down ink possibly? With Parker Quink black or Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black after just a layer or two it's pretty saturated and not capturing the subtleties?
I’m actually using Noodler’s Lexington grey here, which can appear black, but has a transparency that makes it easier to gradually build up values.
This is amazing! You sure make it look easy!😆 How do get these super faint lines? I use a Preppy 0.2mm and yet even with light pressure, things come out bold with little variety.
Thanks! I'm not using anything superfine here, just a TWSB eco EF. Platinum Peppies EFs do tend to write a little wider...
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Thank you for lesson!
Can you tell please, is this ink diluted or color is bright? A have TWSBI Eco EF and it produces much darker line with black ink I'm using compare to this video.
My pleasure! It’s been awhile since this video was made, but I believe I was using Noodler’s Grey here, which is a transparent ink that can look black when you slow down, but generally puts down a softer lighter line that makes the gradual build up of value easier.
@@mkompan Thank you very much!
On contour hatching I have a question. Are you basically hatching at perpendicular to the “Normal” of the surface ? In essence if you are at the north pole (or south) your normal would be up/down so you contour horizontally (with an arc). As you go towards the centre the normal would be pointing more towards E or W so you hatch vertically ? From a physics/light perspective this would make sense because the normal would be direct bounce back light and scattered light would come off at 90 degrees to incident light. Since the surface is round, your normal perpendicular has to be round to. Cross hatchingis just shifted by 15 degrees to darken/interfere with the last hatching ?
If I understood your question, hatching can be done as you describe, (using longitudes and latitudes), but any angle of hatch will work so long as it consistently follows the forms. The same way one can draw a line on a sphere in any direction, one can choose an initial angle of hatch based on any number of factors (one of which is simply what is most comfortable for your hand).
I’m not following your explanation of light, but really the prime consideration here is linear perspective,with foreshortened angles appearing either more horizontal or vertical on receding planes.
@@mkompan Perfect answer. Thanks for your feedback. Yes I realised after typing that longitudes and latitudes would be a better description. The other thing I have learned from another YT video is to follow the form (effectively project a cartesian grid [like an overhead projector with a grid] onto the form). The grid being rotated at whatever angle you like from what you are saying. Obviously projecting a cartesian grid on a perspective form will distort in perspective too, hence following that persective foreshortening too. Your rules on hatching angles would need to be applied to but now with this “projection mapping” taken into account. I’m sure there are lots of subtleties to learn later on like line weights, spacing and broken lines but for now this will get me down the right path I believe. Hopefully this approach will give me effective form and value from line.
Thank you
You’re welcome!
question...this video is going in and out of focus. anyway to repair?
Sorry, this video was made before I knew what I was doing. Sadly the only thing that can be done is to re-do it.
the good thing is at the end one can get a view of everyhing VERY clearly.@@mkompan
@@plwarren I'l have to redo it at some, point, as well as some of my other early videos that have the same issue.
Thanks
Thank you!
Video helped but was in and out of focus trough out the video
Yeah, sorry about that. I’ve fixed the issue in my more recent stuff.
what was ur nib size ? EF ?
These are EF.
you can not rotate the paper, that's cheating.
Dear lord, I hope you’re kidding.