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Draw Tip Tuesday: Let’s Do a Hatching Work-Out!

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Today is all about the technique. In this week’s Draw Tip Tuesday, Koosje Koene, co-founder of Sketchbook Skool, will be your work-out instructor, drawing style!

The technique of hatching allows you to easily create tonal and shading effects in your drawings. In this video, Koosje will show you a hatching work-out you can do to get comfortable with all sorts of hatching in all sorts of directions! An added bonus is that your hatched pages will look like fun patterns.

When you find yourself wanting to create depth in your next drawing, try hatching and play with a variety of thickness and spacing in your lines to create texture in your work.

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