cross-hatching

Examples of cross-hatching in the following topics:

• Hatching and Cross-Hatching

  • Hatching and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal, shading, and textural effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
  • Hatching and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal, shading and textural effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
  • The primary concept of hatching and cross-hatching is that the quantity, thickness, and spacing of the lines will affect the brightness of the image, and emphasize forms by creating the illusion of volume.
  • Cross-hatch lines are used to provide additional tone and texture and can be oriented in any direction, often overlapping each other to create heavily shaded areas.
  • Albrecht Dürer uses hatching and cross-hatching in both the background and foreground of this image.

• Varieties of Line

  • There are six important varieties of line: actual, implied, straight, expressive, contour, and hatch lines.
  • 'Cross contour lines' delineate differences in the features of a surface.
  • 'Cross-hatch lines' provide additional texture and tone to the image surface and can be oriented in any direction.
  • Layers of cross-hatching can add rich texture and volume to image surfaces .
  • Albrecht Dürer employs hatch and cross-hatch lines in this silverpoint self portrait.

• Qualities of Line

  • Hatch lines are defined as parallel lines which are repeated short intervals generally in one direction.
  • Cross-hatch lines provide additional tone and texture and can be oriented in any direction.
  • Multiple layers of cross-hatch lines can give rich and varied shading to objects by manipulating the pressure of the drawing tool to create a large range of values.
  • Contoured hatching refers to hatching using curved lines in order to describe light and form of contours.
  • Hatch lines are visible in this detail from Albrecht Dürer's Veronica

• Line

  • Cross contour lines delineate differences in the features of a surface and can give the illusion of three dimensions or a sense of form or shading.
  • Hatch lines are a series of short lines repeated in intervals, typically in a single direction, and are used to add shading and texture to surfaces.
  • Cross-hatch lines provide additional texture and tone to the image surface and can be oriented in any direction.
  • Layers of cross-hatching can add rich texture and volume to image surfaces.

• Single Sheets

  • He is known for further developing the engraving methods by refining the cross-hatching technique to depict volume and shade.

• German Woodcuts

  • He is known for further developing the engraving methods by refining the cross-hatching technique to depict volume and shade.

• Engraving

  • Florentine liners are flat-bottomed tools with multiple lines incised into them; these are used to do fill work on larger areas or to create uniform shade lines more efficiently than laboriously cross-hatching.
  • He also developed engraving techniques, such as refining cross-hatching to depict volume and shading, particularly in curved lines .

• The Drawing Process

  • Pen and ink drawings often use hatching, which consists of groups of parallel lines.
  • Crosshatching uses hatching in two or more different directions to create a darker tone.
  • Broken hatching, or lines with intermittent breaks, can be used to form lighter tones, and by controlling the density of the breaks a gradation of tone can be achieved.

• Ottonian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Many of the finest examples of the crux gemmata (jeweled cross) date from Ottonian rule.
  • Made of wood, these crosses then were encased in carved gold and silver and encrusted with jewels and engraved gems.
  • Arguably the finest of these Ottonian jeweled crosses is the Cross of Lothair, dating from around 1,000 and housed in the Aachen Cathedral.
  • However, the cross was actually commissioned over a century later for Otto III, the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • The cross also depicts the Hand of God holding a wreath containing a dove representing the Holy Spirit in the crucifixion scene.

• Sculpture of the Early Christian Church

  • Monumental crosses such as the Gero Crucifix (c. 965–970) were evidently common in the ninth and tenth centuries.
  • Large stone Celtic crosses, usually erected outside monasteries or churches, first appeared in eighth-century Ireland.
  • By the ninth century, reliefs of human figures were added to the crosses.
  • The largest crosses have many figures in scenes on all surfaces, often from the Old Testament on the east side, and the New Testament on the west, with a Crucifixion at the center of the cross.
  • Muiredach's High Cross (tenth century) at Monasterboice is usually regarded as the peak of the Irish crosses.