Line Work - Drawing Contest [6 entries]

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Winning entry, with a score of:
79.7%
Contest goal:

Traditional Drawing: Draw a line work picture in PENCIL or INK, and then shade it using ONLY hatch lines or stipple dots. No painting, smudging, scribbling, or "coloring in" allowed. The point is to illustrate volume and depth with technique.
Here are some good examples:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching
- http://skrob.deviantart.com/art/Pelvis-bone-Cross-Hatching-259746401
- http://love-the-rain.deviantart.com/art/Organized-Cross-Hatch-Face-3-134771466

Links are updated: the given examples did not represent the goal of this contest well enough.



Drawing rules in short:
- no tracing
- no copyrighted reference images, if a non-copyrighted reference is used: always mention them with a link or if the photo is yours you need to post it in the SBS claiming you own copyright
- post at least 2 intermediate steps in the SBS
Read full drawing rules here



Status: finished. Check out the winners below!
Suggested by: MossyB

wazowski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching ( 5 years and 2886 days ago )
wazowski: The tutorial (1st link) doesnt seem to explain that much about hatching to create depth, imo. It shows more line art with pure black shading.
I'd say a good artist with great technique would be Gustave Doré http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Doré.
But I'm not sure now what the limit would be of what's allowed in this contest. Normal crosslined shading would be ontheme? ( 5 years and 2886 days ago )
MossyB: Preferably, you should be able to see the hatchwork or stippled shading, meaning if you've made it a solid black mass because you've gone over it so many times in so many directions the strokes are no longer visible, you've failed. That would be "coloring in." The same goes for smudging your strokes, or just scribbling back and forth in different directions.

We're talking technique, here, which involves a bit of effort and precision. ( 5 years and 2886 days ago )
MossyB: Here are a few more works that show some of the DEPTH and FORM (your desired goals for this contest) that can be achieved through crosshatch shading - Some of them have a few areas that are almost solid black, but they are generally a very small portion of the work - the majority of the shading is accomplished through line art.
http://shapesandspaces.com/tag/ink-line/page/5/
http://skrob.deviantart.com/art/Pelvis-bone-Cross-Hatching-259746401
http://api.ning.com/files/u0pkC5jjsA2WYt1yhgIchb0Ovmgf8K3AP-L4Nnf6QXnN1c5ecJIHCf*1pN0F9KBWChxaFi-C3KPB53xag*lg7DpnmuLzFL3b/jadyn_illustration_crosshatch.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ecXzEIfbZQs/TOs-qQm1IuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/dMoIWju1JMQ/s1600/Sktchfix_20101111_Veggies.png
http://love-the-rain.deviantart.com/art/Organized-Cross-Hatch-Face-3-134771466
( 5 years and 2886 days ago )
Contest Moderator: Contest description is updated: the original given links did not represent the goal close enough, new example links are added. ( 5 years and 2885 days ago )
nilaksh: i have one of my old drawing.....so how can i mention steps....help me... ( 5 years and 2878 days ago )
Contest Moderator: @nilaksh: redraw a part of your entry and post that as the SBS ( 5 years and 2875 days ago )

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banker - created by krigios


banker
Favs: 4SBS: 5Hi-resRank: 1/6Score: 79.7% (50)30264 views

0.5 and 0.7 pens used (5 years and 2874 days ago)


island girl - created by roon


island girl
Favs: 0SBS: 4Hi-resRank: 2/6Score: 68.9% (34)17899 views

(5 years and 2876 days ago)


Dog's Sketch - created by rssatnam


Dogs Sketch
Favs: 3SBS: 2Hi-resRank: 3/6Score: 68.5% (29)46886 views

Made this in 2 hours. Tell me how is it ? (5 years and 2874 days ago)


still life - created by libertysgems


still life
Favs: 0SBS: 2Hi-resRank: 4/6Score: 64.2% (0)23083 views

I did this last year, so I hope the sbs I have created will be acceptable. (5 years and 2878 days ago)


Bird's sketch - created by nilaksh


Birds sketch
Favs: 0SBS: 2Hi-resRank: 5/6Score: 63.1% (0)21375 views

(5 years and 2877 days ago)