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Still practicing my hashing technique.
The last time I tried to hash with ink I found the line to be rather wobbly. But after trying it again today I found that my technique for hashing pencil also works with ink. You just have to draw at speed.
Not overshooting the mark is still a problem but it is clear that with practice it’s slowly improving.
Drawing lines that where a bit shorter also helped.
Ink hashing 1
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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
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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Trying to get an even color by hashing.
Usually when I draw with color I find that you get to see a lot of lines. I’ve never been able to spread the color evenly over the paper. But yesterday when I was hashing with gray pencil I found that I could spread the pencil evenly about the paper.
So today I’ve tried whether I could get the same kind of result with color pencil.
I’m not completely satisfied. Although you can’t see it very good in the scan I still see a lot of color variation within one square.
Quite possible that it’s just a case of getting enough practice. So I went back to hashing with gray.
Here I also found that the gray scale varies within squares. But I stayed within the lines.
Color hashing 2
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A few drawings to practice hashing.
Just like I expected yesterday I’m starting to get some idea about what it is that I want to accomplish by practicing hashing.
I’ve decided to start out with practicing with gray pencil. For one thing because gray pencils are cheaper than color pencils but mostly because I also want to be able to draw with gray pencil. As I look at drawing by other artist I get the impression that hashing and cross hashing are more important techniques with gray pencil then with color pencil.
For the first run I started out with at random putting some hashes (is this a word?) on paper. It didn’t feel that difficult.
Gray scale hashing 1
After filling a large part of the paper I thought that it might be nice to draw a grid and fill that with hashed lines.
Gray scale hashing 2
This turned out to be a little more of a challenge. It’s quite difficult to stay within the lines.
I tried to hash half a square and then the other half but run into to problem I have had earlier. The two half hashes tend to overlap which means that there is a part in the middle that is darker then the rest. (Line 2 row 4.)
The only solution seems to be to work with very long lines. But axectly the right length. Not so long that you over shoot the outer line and not so short that white shows.
For the corner squares I didn’t want to hash. The problem with hashing at the edge of the paper is that you overshoot the edge and get stuck on your way back.
Instead I wanted to draw parallel lines but that caused it’s own problems.
There are several techniques you can use to draw short straight lines but none seem to have a very good result.
One option is to rest your wrist on the table and use your fingers to guide the pencil. But if I do that I get a wobbly line.
The other possibility is drawing from the shoulder. But then there are also two possibilities that don’t work very good. You could draw very slow but if you do the line tends to get slightly rounded instead of straight. Or you could draw a lot faster but then you tend to overshoot.
(Which isn’t a problem when you are drawing at the edge of the paper but usually that won’t be the case.)
Clearly I’ll have to do some more practicing of both the hashing as the drawing of parallel lines.
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Practicing the hashing technique.
The first attempt at hashing. I’m not completely sure what I’m doing so it’s a bit hard to write about it.
The goal is to find a way to combine colors in a way you can see them all. Instead of being content with the situation where the colors get mixed.
I’m not completely sure whether this is the way to go. But I figure that there is only one way to find out and that is to first learn this technique and then see if it does what I want.
Color hashing 1
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