How to Add Shading with Cross hatching - Let's Practice
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video, I explain my process for shading artwork with cross-hatching. This is a loose style for you to practice getting better at the concept. After you feel more confident with this type of shading you can try various lines with more weight and tapered effects.
First, focus on creating shadows to enhance your forms. Try to generate many levels of tone with these simple lines. This can be a great practice activity before inking your work.
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I love that eye. Your art is on point!
You are an inspiration!
And your soothing voice in all these tutorials makes it more interesting
This is the first hatching exercise that I have actually enjoyed. My erratic hatching managed to actually look good and by the end of it I had developed a lot more control than I thought possible (for myself). It definitely helped me a lot more than just practicing making random hatch lines and cross hatches across a blank canvas. Thanks so much!!
Oh my goodness I've been trying to understand hatching for years! This is such a great explanation into the thought processes and reasoning behind the technique
Great lesson! I'm fascinated with detailed portrait shading using cross-hatching and this video had some very useful tips and advice. Thankyou!!!🔥
Again, another fantastic video! Masterfully done! Just started watching your videos because I have been learning how to use cross-hatching on 3D resin printed models to achieve a comic book style aesthetic on board game pieces. I love your approach to teaching and all your tips and tricks. Not to sound weird but I find your voice so chill and relaxing. There is a high degree of professionalism in your voice and in your approach that I very much appreciate. Thanks again for another amazing video!
I love it man! You have more skill, in 5 minutes, then ive acquired in a lifetime! Lol
In your defense it took me about 25 years of practice to get here! ;)
looks amazing as usual, Rob! I'm making a 6 page comic inspired by you!
Would like to see it when you complete it. Subscribed
of course! I'll show case it on my channel soon. I'm only 2 and a half pages in, so it should be done in a week or 2, and thank you so much for subscribing:)
I can’t wait to see it. Im honored to have helped inspire you! :)
Great tutorial! Very helpful... Keep sending out these gems. Thanks
Thank you very much! I will continue to do my best! :)
This is perfect! I've been struggling with hatching and needed a good resource. I'm glad you did this video and I didn't even need to search for it lol!
Thank you Darris! Always happy to share the work.
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Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing.
Thank you sir... Wonderful tutorial...
Mega. Great attention to detail.
I only have 1 word....beautiful
Inpressive and helpful!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you and glad you enjoyed the video!
This is exactly what I needed to practice. Thanks so much man!
Thanks, Rob! Great exercise.
You’re welcome John!
Great little tutorial.. thank you.. Quick question, when doing crosshatching liek this are you just thinking about light and shadow or does texture also factor in than doing this?
In this example it would primarily be about light and shadow but cross-hatching can also be used for texturing. I also like to add in bits of stipple shading or random marks to create texture.
Man, that line-art skill is amazing! How do you manage to obtain those insane perfectly straight, parallel and same-length lines? Do you always keep the stabiliser on? Is there any particular exercise that you could recommend to get that skilled at drawing lines? (maybe you have it on a previous video? I'm checking your inking videos but the ones I've seen don't seem to mention exercises). Thank you in advance, and thanks for your videos!
Thank you Diego. I have practiced them a lot over the years. I think that the main thing is getting the work the exact size that corresponds with your most confident hand movement. For me, it is where I can rest my hand on the screen and create smaller movements controlled by only my fingertips and not by moving my hand. By pivoting off my hand I can get much more accurate lines. Some artists get good at pulling lines across the canvas by moving their entire arm but I find that to be more difficult.
I also would fill up entire pages with just lines to get better at rendering. That can be a great way to practice.
Thanks for watching this video!
-Robert
@@RobertMarzullo thank you very much for the advice! I will definitely try that. I was in fact struggling with my straight lines probably because I was always putting a litte bit of wrist on them and they always curved a bit. Also I have noticed today that Clip Studio Paint Pro produces a much more elegant line-art out of the box for the default GPen than what Krita does (I have been using Krita until now) which is unfortunate since it's such a nice software.
Keep up this amazing work!
How can i replicate this brush in photoshop
Few! All done now to draw it on a face
Do you ever shade normal like smoothing out colors fading them to nothing plus the cross hatching ? I've never tried to do the cross hatching but I've seen it a lot. You are awesome as always. I've got a pic I've drawn and shaded. Do you think after practicing it would look okay with the cross hatching also is my question. Thanks man !
nice ty :)
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