How to Cross Hatch - The Best Cross Hatching Tip

Do you get confused how to apply cross hatching? Discover the secret for knowing where to put your hatching lines. Don't just draw lines covering up the details you've drawn, but use this technique to give you direction.

[tommunyon]

My elementary school art teacher said that learning cross hatching was reserved for when we reached 6th grade. This gave the technique a certain cachet in our minds that it was so advanced and sophisticated we needed to be more mature to learn how. I eventually taught myself how to cross hatch, when the magic year had come and gone and whoever the art teacher was at the time had not taught us.

[davidwang]

This is by far the best tutorial among all the videos I have seen! Because you have demonstrate personally how to draw a picture against the real object on the photo . The student now understand every steps you have taken in the drawing so that they can follow it. Well done ! Thanks Stephen !

[u.kw]

Best thing I've taken here is what you mentioned about lines following the form of shapes in the drawings. It's quite a striking difference between the two drawings you've done.
Great tip

[littleblueclovers]

11:20 helped me so much! I draw a lot of human figures and I never really liked my cross hatching because it looked like everyone was just wearing strange fishnets 😂
I should’ve tried “cross” hatching without actually crossing so hard with perpendicular lines

[Lessulie]

for me i know pretty much by intuition that you should almost always hatch along the surface of the form, it's how all the artists I like hatch in most of their work, so I'm surprised a lot of ppl don't know that. It probably has to do with the fact that people learn about hatching and cross-hatching way before they learn about form.

[adrianen]

This explains cross hatching a million times better than most of my art classes 😅

[danielkaysuo]

I have always had trouble with hatching, after watching your video I can already see a huge improvement on my drawings. Thank you!

[Freegurt]

Fantastic tutorial! I've always loved black/white crosshatching art, but could never do it myself well enough cause it always looked messy/amateur. This helped a lot!

[willbephore]

As a self taught art-er I have troweled the depths of pen and ink teachings on here. Just found your videos recently and can tell I'll be sticking around.
It's an incredible amount of work to think through how to clearly present information, especially in a non live format - without questions from the audience being able to inform the bent of the instruction. You do a fantastic job, thank you for your efforts to this effect. I will be sharing with some fellow art-ing friends.

[benjamin.belcher]

I started learning with Proko and have been going through some art books and looking to go to the next level when I stumble across your channel, and what an excellent discovery. This comment could go under any of your videos but I want to express my gratitude. My art will much improve because of you. Thank you!

[madebylora]

I already try to shape my hatching lines if I’m drawing something that is curved, but now I’ll be thinking much more about the direction of my hatching for other surface shapes too! Thank you!

[Incandescentiron]

I always liked cross hatching, but not always satisfied with the results. This helps a great deal. Thank you for posting!

Wow... the way you explain and demonstrate is clear, straightforward... and joyful.

[abbym]

So helpful to show tone! I’m BRAND new to drawing and without this video cross hatching would have been pointless to me.

[RadarLakeKosh]

I feel like this is a concept I stumbled upon by intuition in my own experiments with line drawing... and yet until you articulated it so masterfully I wasn't able to use it with any intention. Thank you for demonstrating this technique in such an insightful way.

[LlednarHugh]

I just glanced over your channel when I came across your profile on Instagram. I can positively say, I am very interested. You cover much of the topic that I want to learn.

[joannamastron]

I've been dabbling with crosshatching, but it always seemed to fall flat and I wasn't sure why. Your video really helped me realize exactly what I need to work on! In hindsight, following the underlying shapes with the hatch marks seems like such an obvious concept but for some reason I tend to forget about it when caught up in a drawing. This is one of the most helpful art instructional videos I've seen :)

[dddi]

This is incredible. I've always wanted to get into art: specifically landscape and architecture much like this, but I struggle so much with perspective and my drawing are always warped and mishappen. The outline you did at the start was already breathtaking to me, I really hope I can learn to draw like you.

[KeithRodri]

You clearly highlighted several concepts for me that I knew of, but were still foggy or blurry. By watching this you've helped clear those concepts considerably. Thanks!!

[halasamer]

I have to draw cross hatching drawing and submit it for my professor.. I had no idea what is cross hatching.. thank you so much