Sculpt Your Portrait Subject with Contour Hatching

There are many ways to render form and value in a drawing including well-known techniques like shading and crosshatching.

In this lesson (92 mins), artist Mike Creighton demonstrates a less-practiced method called contour hatching, which he describes as "almost like stretching a mesh around the form you're drawing."

Mike is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon, whose online classes have helped thousands of students sharpen their drawing skills.

In this lesson, Mike shows how to contour hatch, illustrates how it differs from other hatching methods, and demonstrates his process of drawing Nicole M (above) from start to finish in graphite.

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