Crosshatching

[Neko Arc Chaos]

Just wondering how many of your hatch in your sketches and occasionals w.i.p's.

[Mom]

I fully render my work.

[Tsuranga]

it depends on what I'm doing. if it's a pen drawing, I crosshatch the fuck outta it example \/ \/ \/ \/ \/

 

As for pencil... I usually smooth it. Strangely I actually use crosshatching in paintings, it's just really subtle.

[Ethos]

I crosshatch all the time. It's second nature now. Well, I shouldn't say all the time. If I'm using a pencil or pen and the drawing needs shading, I'm crosshatching. I generally hate smudging with pencil. I feel it makes the image look terrible to be honest. I suppose though, if done right, it can have a decent look. I don't see it often though.

 

Yes, I realize that this is an old topic, but hell. I like talking about art. Sue me.

 

Kind of curious though, why the question?

[Harakiri Tiger]

I highly prefer the look of crosshatching to smudging. It just looks a lot cleaner.

[Mom]

Smudging's for nubs.

[Ataraxis]

Smudging's for nubs.

 

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[Ethos]

It's not that it looks cleaner for me, although that's a big part of it. It's like this to me. You can have a pretty sick line drawing that looks decent by itself. Once you add smudging, it automatically goes down in quality for me. Again though, I'm not saying that all smudging is bad.

 

It's late, so I don't want to start looking up examples but yea. Most often, I usually prefer either crosshatching, or shading with the side of the pencil (if we're talking graphite at least).

[Mom]

A lot of fully rendered objects include lots of crosshatching depending on the texture anyways.

[Densuo]

I use hatching and Cross hatching all the time when I sketch. I love it. can't live without it. there's so much you can do with it. and its so damn simple