This 2.5 hour class is designed for those of you that have some experience with drawing, but are new to working in pen and ink and cross-hatching.

Unlike many of the videos on this channel that use time-lapse, editing and voice-overs, this class is taught fully in real-time with minimal editing, and is much closer to the way one would learn in an actual classroom. Because of this, the recording includes the occasional street-noise, a pen failure or two, and even my kids screaming in background. However, though it might lack my usual professionalism and polish, this is a concise and information packed lesson that took a considerable time to organize and execute.

The tutorial is broken into 8 lessons, which besides covering “The six basic strokes” used in cross-hatching also deals with the 5 basic rules of cross-hatching, exercises you can do to build your hatching skill, and various hatching strategies used to render simple volumes. And in the last lesson, I apply everything we’ve learned and show you how to draw a simple still-life.