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Remember, draw your lines in a clean way. Begin cleanly, and end cleanly.
Meaning, try to keep even pressure and speed from beginning to end.

I show you a hatching drawing technique that is simple to apply.
If you need it, you can train at drawing straight lines freehand first.
Make sure you draw also with the proper drawing posture.

They are the must-do habits for the daily drawing.


hand-sketch-pencil-chou-tac-chung
Hatching is great for shading and creates contrast

Chou-Tac Chung – Hand sketch, 2008


How to get evenly spaced lines

Alan-Levine-Syncopated Art

  • TIP: Count in your head steadily, like a metronome. For each beat, you draw a line.
  • Keep a steady speed in the drawing hand and wrist throughout the exercise.
  • Try different counting speeds, but remember that it’s not a race!

Alan Levine – Syncopated art, 2010


Hatching in limited areas

  • Draw a random shape.
  • Drawing hatching

    Fill this shape with hatching. For the first two or three lines, use ghost drawing as necessary.
    Your brain will “calibrate”, or memorize the shape.

  • Cover the whole page with random shapes and nice hatching.

Use random form to draw hatching inside

Random-shape


In summary

Draw lines that are:

  1. Parallel, ensuring that you have the paper angled comfortably.
  2. Equidistant, by using the metronome method.
  3. Lines that do not exceed the calibration of your brain-hand connection gained by the ghost-drawing.

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