Drew Ink The year

Hatching

Building tone out of parallel lines, and cross-hatching where a second set crosses the first at an angle.

Hatching: the sphere and the floor at the foot of Dürer's Melencolia I, 1514, the sphere's tone built from strokes that follow its curve, the floor from two sets crossing.
The sphere in Dürer's Melencolia I, 1514, Albrecht Dürer; photographed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Cropped to the sphere and the floor at the foot of the plate. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Hatching: a drawn diagram with the hatching marked in vermilion.
Hatching, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-09.

Near it

StipplingVisual contrast

Ligne claire

What it is made of

denser linesdarker tone
line directionfollows the form, which is what separates modelling from texture