Tag: pen and ink

  • How to shade drawings with cross-hatching

    Many people have asked me to show how to cross hatch. It’s a skill you have to work at an be prepared t make lots of mistakes! Basically it is using pen and ink to render tonal values. one layer of lines will give a an effect of grey, but when you cross hatch over…

  • Hints and tips for illustrators

    Here’s a video that shows some of the tricks I’ve learned and worked out over the years, for making life a bit easier when drawing pen and ink illustrations. Hope you will enjoy it. If you have any questions put them in the comments box.