This 2.5 hour class, designed for beginning artists, will teach you simple, effective cross hatching methods that can be applied to a variety of subject matter, such as landscape, figure drawing and urban sketching.

As the title suggests, I’m going to cover the 6 types of hatching strokes commonly used in cross-hatching, show you three extremely useful exercises for developing your dexterity with the pen, and lastly demonstrate how to apply these various skills by doing a drawing of three deceptively simple geometric forms. Unlike most of my Youtube content, this video is unscripted, uses no time-lapse and has minimal editing. As such it is meant to reproduce the experience of a live lecture/demonstration.

This concise, information packed lesson will be useful to those getting started with pen and ink drawing, or just looking to improve their hatching skills.