Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching
Hatching is a drawing technique in which value created through a series of thin strokes or lines
that are more or less parallel. The lines can be short or long. How close together they are
influences the tone, with closer lines creating darker tones.
Cross-hatching is an extension of hatching, which uses is the use of fine parallel lines drawn
closely together, to create value or the illusion of texture in a drawing.
Cross-hatching value scale 0-9
Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching
Giorgio Morandio, Still Life, 1933, pen and ink
Irons, Introduction to Drawing: Hatching and Cross-hatching
Albrecht Durer, Sechs Kissen (Six Pillows), 1493
Here Durer uses a combination of hatching and cross-hatching lines that also suggest
the planes and surfaces of forms, as in a cross-contour drawing.