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  1. Before you get started

    Studio talk with Maya Clubine
  2. Pastel Paper with Maya Clubine
  3. Making marks with Rebecca de Mendonça
    Limbering up
  4. Broad energetic strokes
  5. Smudging and Softening
  6. Hatching
  7. Twisting and turning
  8. Combining techniques
  9. Portraiture for Beginner's with Estelle Robinson
    What makes a good reference photo?
  10. Things to remember
  11. Eyes
  12. Things to Remember
  13. Head Position
  14. Things to Remember
  15. Backgrounds
  16. Things to remember
  17. Drawing Children
  18. Things to remember
  19. Creating Texture in Hair
  20. Things to remember
  21. Seascapes with Tricia Taylor
    Underpainting - Part 1
  22. Underpainting - Part 2
  23. Underpainting - Part 3
  24. Wet Sand - Part 1
  25. Wet Sand - Part 2
  26. Wet Sand - Part 3
  27. Wet Sand - Part 4
  28. Beginner Wave - Part 1
  29. Beginner Wave - Part 2
  30. Beginner Wave - Part 3
  31. Landscapes with Nina Squire
    Dorset Dunes Colour Chart
  32. Dorset Dunes Reference Images
  33. Dorset Dunes Part 1
  34. Dorset Dunes Part 2
  35. Woody Walks Materials and images
  36. Woody Walks Part 1
  37. Woody Walks Part 2
  38. Woody Walks Part 3
  39. Woody Walks Part 4
  40. Colour Theory with Tricia Taylor
    Mixing Colour - Part 1
  41. Mixing Colour - Part 2
  42. How not to make mud
  43. Creating Optical Illusions With Warm and Cool Colours, with Julie Swan
    Creating Optical Illusions With Warm and Cool Colours
  44. Skies with Sandra Orme
    Sandra's Notes for Clouds
  45. White Cloud Edges
  46. Making Grey Clouds Interesting
  47. Cloudburst Rain
  48. Sandra's Notes for Sunset Skies
  49. Sunset Sky - Stage 1
  50. Sunset Sky - Stage 2
  51. Sunset Sky - Stage 3
  52. Boat Tutorial with Julie Swan
    Boat Tutorial
Beginner’s Path Hatching
Lesson 6 of 52
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Hatching

You can hatch colours together by making lots of marks with the end of the pastel. As you lay marks of different colours over each other, they blend together, but you can still see all of the colours showing through in places.

You don’t have to make the marks go in one direction. This is a useful and versatile technique for animal work, portraits, landscapes; in fact, all sorts of things.

 

Pastel grip for hatching, to make marks with the end of the pastel…

Using one colour

Adding colours

Blending by Hatching several colours, perfect for subtle changes of tone and hue

The marks don’t have to be straight; try making lots of little marks going in the same direction, or in lots of different directions, or following the contours of the object you are drawing. Use lots of colours and overlap the marks, seeing how they blend without being smudged.

Examples

Apple sketch
Fruit sketch
Grasses in the Wind

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