Dan Serra <danser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> My son who is in high school has been enamored with creating cartoons
> for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional look of
> political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has been trying
> to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching
> with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by
> hand.
At the risk of offending, I'd just like to cast a vote for the
"tedious" method.
Cross-hatching, when done correctly, is not a uniform series of
diagonal lines. The artist alters the distance between the lines and
the thickness of the lines to show the varying shades of "gray".
Even if you did something like create a custom cross-hatch layer
underneath the original art, and used a tool to make selected areas
more or less visible, it wouldn't look right, because the nature of
cross-hatching is all about the subtlety of the penstrokes.
Dennis
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