PENS
HOW DO I VARY THE MARKS?
Use your pens to expand your vocabulary of drawing marksYOUR GRIP
Experiment with holding your pen in different ways to
createawidervarietyofline.Grippingthepenasif
youwerewritingwillprovidecontrolandsuitsshort,
consistentmarks.Meanwhile,alooserpinchofthe
barrel further from the tip reduces control and
createsamoregesturalandvariedmark.HATCHING
Hatching involves building
up parallel marks of
varying density. Experiment
with horizontal, vertical
and diagonal hatching or
a mixture of all three.
CONTOURED HATCHING
As you become more confi dent with cross
hatching, adapt your lines into curved
marks that follow the form of an object
and suggest rounded surfaces. This can
simultaneously build up darker tones
and sculpt form on the page.CROSS HATCHING
Blocks of hatching can be layered in
different directions to create areas
of increasingly dense tone.