Hatching How and Why YOU should use it in your Urban Sketches Drawing Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Hatching is a really wonderful way to immediately get tone, shape and character into your sketches And that is what this quick tips, tricks and hacks guide is all about to amp up your drawing, sketching and urban sketching There are loads of ways to hatch, but as ever I think simple and easy is best and in this video I ll show you why I think this. If you ve watched my tutorials at all, you ll recognise these techniques, and perhaps you ll welcome the slightly more in depth look today I ll also take you step by step through how I use hatching, from the basic principles and underlying theory, through to a practical demonstration of how hatching brings sketches to life. I love using the simplest form of hatching, using just one direction of lines usually vertical hatching. Sometimes, I also split my hatching up into different planes, to provide different textures and even more shape again, I ll show you exactly what I mean by that in this quick