Rendering values of wavy surfaces
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How to render wavy surfaces by cross-hatching
In the Life Drawing Academy Personal Tutoring course, students learn professional tonal rendering skills among many other drawing topics. One of 100 practical tasks in this course is rendering tonal values of wavy surfaces. Rose, a course student, sent a question about directions of hatching strokes.
One of the main rules of rendering tonal values is "hatch along the shape". A three-dimensional shape is revealed by contours, which are virtual lines on the object surface. To see how those contours look, you can actually draw straight lines at different angles on a sheet of paper and then curl it to make a wavy surface. Here are examples of students' artworks on this topic.
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