In this lesson, you use curved hatching lines and smoothly rendered graduations to depict the illusion of depth, and illustrate light and shadows on a close-up segment of a form.

Preview lesson F09 - Graduations with Contour Hatching

Brenda explains the graduations very well, but I still find it very hard to achieve the smooth flow.

I'm also having trouble with the smooth flow of the lines. Mine don't blend nicely. I see each pencil line.

I thought cross hatching was like that .. not real smooth looking .

Great lesson, if only I could get it right.

this is difficult. is it possible to do with just one kind of pencil?

It's harder than it looks.I wish that i could get hair on my characters to look like that.

i think that blending will help.

Since noone seem to post any of their drawings, I might as well..

(It got a bit lighter when I scanned it, so you can't see all lines, especially at the top)

I did ok with this except this squiggle lines coming thru the darkest part. It just looked like it didn't belong on my drawing.

... this lesson was a big help ... at last i got the point ...thanks

Such a usefull lesson!