Classic ink hatching style

[George Abraham]

Hi

I am really inpired by this style of hatching.

I havn't seen any tutorials or training specifically on the topic of mastering the skill or the method that is supposed to go through your mind when you do so. Plenty of flat hatching or criss cross but nothing on this.

I have found this from American drawing. It doesn't have much technical detail on how this is actually done accept that it's not flat and is curved to infoce form. It compares the two style effects but doesn't ellaborate on the actual method.

I would really like it if sumeone could share their understanding. I have seen this style in some more modern art like some of Loomis and his inspirations and it really does add alot of appeal, even to money. It's one of those styles that you can look at 5000 years from now and still go "woah!"

[Mapes]

This is most likely an etching. It was drawn out to begin with then carved into a metal plate for reproduction on a printing press. The lines are done this way to maintain a clear image when printing. If you look at a lot of old book they will be illustrated in this way.

[kidult]

Its not an etching but an engraving (although the 2 are pretty similar), they had very fine tools to cut grooves out of the metal plate and that's why you have these lines.

Just get some pens and brushes and start drawing best way to learn.

[George Abraham]

It's the way they seemed to have hatched as well back in ye olde.

So they needed to have a thinking process, even for etching or engraving.
My guess is it's mainly involves spending hours and hours and hours.

[jthierba]

Great thread about hatching right here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=117915

[Apollonian]

Hatching is for eggs.