My Secret Hatching Technique
How do I draw hatching so steady, fast and regular?
First, I learn to draw single lines in a clean way.
I keep an even pressure and speed from beginning to the end of each stroke.
I draw each stroke with care. With a bit of practice, it becomes a second nature!
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 daily drawing.
1. How Music Helps You Draw Hatching with Evenly Spaced Lines
A sketching tip to draw good hatching is to draw with a rhythm in mind: 1 beat, 1 stroke.
You follow the metronome.
- TIP: Count in your head steadily, like a metronome: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – Repeat
For each beat, you draw a line. - Keep a steady speed in the drawing hand and wrist throughout the exercise.
- Make sure you draw holding your pen steadily
- Try different counting speeds, but remember that it’s not a race!
2. Exercise: Draw Hatching within Limited Zones
- Draw a random shape.
- Drawing hatching
- Fill this shape with hatching.
For the first two or three lines, use ghost drawing as necessary. With practice, your brain will “calibrate” to the borders of your shape, and it will become easy.
3. How to Evaluate Your Hatching Quality
Draw lines that are:
- Parallel, ensuring that you have the paper angled comfortably.
- Equidistant, by using the metronome method.
- Lines that do not exceed the calibration of your brain-hand connection gained by the ghost-drawing.
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Cheers,
Chou-Tac
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Muy bueno!. Great! . Want more guides!
Thanks for adding the tidbit about Ghost drawing as a way for the brain to “Calibrate” the movement before making the mark on paper. That alone has helped me a great deal!!!
You welcome Majik.