Crosshatching tips

[glacial escarp]

Crosshatching has been my main way of building out form and shadow etc. something about my crosshatching however seems to be a little off and I just want some second opinions

[dawn sphinx]

the cross hatching isnt off, its the proportions of what you draw, so id suggest working on that

but if you really want to improve your hatching, work on doing darker values, and gradients as well

and think about the form of the subject

[glacial escarp]

Thanks for the feedback, what specifically is proportionally off in the drawings? Cuz some of the them are a little stylized and others I was trying to be more realistic.

@dawn sphinx

[dawn sphinx]

Its not just one thing that's off proportionally, its just overall someone things are off. before learning stylization i suggest you learn realism, as you have to learn the rules before you break them. (as stylization is just removing which aspects of reality to remove from the drawing and which aspects to keep in)

[final rose]

@dawn sphinx what resources do you recommend for learning realism?

[dawn sphinx]

lots of photo references, and "drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards

thats how i learned

and of course practice, but learning the theory and experiementing is just as important

[final rose]

Great, thank you for the reference!