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Hatching (French: hachure) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching .
Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.
Cross-hatching uses hatching in two or more different directions to create a darker tone. Broken hatching, or lines with intermittent breaks, form lighter tones – and controlling the density of the breaks achieves a gradation of tone. Stippling uses dots to produce tone, texture and shade. Different textures can be achieved depending on the ...
The Young Shepherd, engraving using stipple technique. Giulio Campagnola (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo kampaɲˈɲɔːla]; c. 1482 – c. 1515) was an Italian engraver and painter, whose few, rare, [1] prints translated the rich Venetian Renaissance style of oil paintings of Giorgione and the early Titian into the medium of engraving; to further his exercises in gradations of tone, he also invented ...
The use of varying line widths to emphasize mass, proximity, and scale helped to make a simple line drawing more understandable to the lay person. Cross hatching, stippling, and other low abstraction techniques gave greater depth and dimension to the subject matter". [9]
Giulio Campagnola, The Astrologer, c. 1509, with areas such as the dark foreground, the man's bald head, and the tree trunks created by a burin stippling technique. An example of the mastery of coloured stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815) Cupid Binding Aglaia to a Laurel, detail, after Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807)
A new critter is creeping into the United States' waters. The invasive Australian redclaw crayfish was recently spotted in Southern Texas, roughly 8,000 miles away from its home. The freshwater ...
Traditional pen-and-ink techniques such as stippling and cross-hatching can be used to create half-tones [38] or the illusion of form and volume. [39] Skillful integration of existing colors can create an illusion of colors which do not actually exist. [30]