Drawing short straight lines freehand

by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday February 26, 2008

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Continuing my hashing practice.

A few days ago I found that it is quite difficult to draw straight lines while hashing. Today I filled a grid with only short straight lines and showed some progress.
It’s a lot easier to get the lines straight when you draw them fast. Which results in the new problem that it is much more difficult to stop the line in time. I tend to either over shoot or stop to early.
I have to practice a little more.

One thing I did find is that it is easier to work away from yourself then towards yourself: Being right handed I tend to work from left to right. That way I get a good few on the lines I’ve already drawn.
But for some reason I found that with drawing short straight lines it’s actually easier to work from right to left. Even though that means that you can’t see the earlier lines that well because you are blocking your sight with the pencil.

Gray scale hashing 3
Gray scale hashing 3

BTW I also figure out why I had the problem that white paper after scanning looked pink.
I found that if you don’t use the gamma control the white turns a little gray. If you do use the gamma control the white turn pink.
Apparently you should only use gamma control when you have colors in you drawing.

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