Hi Brett,
How do you actually hatch and crosshatch with pastels? It sounds like a great idea but I can’t seem to get it to work for me in any satisfactory way,
Cheers, B.E.
Hi B. E.
I’m assuming you are talking about freehand pastels so I’ll explain it from that starting point as half the use and attraction of hatching/crosshatching/ squirling with pastels is the ability to be shifting edges of different colour fields and tones around as you go along as a natural part of the developmental process. The rough kinds of hatching in the early stages of blocking in colour and roughly shifting things around is completely different to the very much finer kind of hatching and crosshatching used to ‘finish off’, when creating an overall illusion of the final colour/s and textures. I suspect your question is about this finer kind so I’ll go there with the advice. You have to be really light on with the pressure applied, and
