WOW!!! I've been an artist for over 30 years. I've watched endless tutorials on cross-hatch shading. I really wish I had the ability to watch THIS tutorial 25 years ago... Those little touches add sooooo much to a piece of artwork! Thank you David! You are easily my favorite artist!!
Thank you David! I was wondering why my rendering felt so stiff (and you are right, figuring it out on your own when its technically correct is very hard). Your explanation and examples were spot on! Great insight from a master. Cheers!
I still fall into that "technically correct" but wrong technique trap. Don't even know I'm doing it but once it's done I notice it and can't work out why it looks off, especially when it works in other parts. This is a great tip 👍
Thanks A lot Dave!!! Another amazing tutorial🤙🏾 Thankyou for taking time from what I can only imagine is a very busy schedule to help guide your FinchFlock! Ally and Dad wish you, Meredith and the boys an amazing Christmas, you all deserve it.
🤯 Man, so useful! That’s going to help my drawings a LOT! Tbh I usually don’t watch most RUclips videos all the way through, but I always do with the David Finch tutorial videos!! Thanks Dave! ✍️
Amazing, this simple technique just leveled-up my rendering skills! I knew there was a specific way to improve my rendering, but I couldn’t figure it out! Thank you for sharing this technique Mr. Finch, I’ve been looking for a rendering technique that didn’t make my work look plan and stiff. Thank you! I love your work, you’re the man!👍🏾👍🏾
Excellent info and brilliant presentation! I think you are about the best "renderer" out there, except perhaps for Rudy Nebres who is best known for his inking-- and who is some 40 years longer in the biz! I was especially interested when you touched on using dead-weight, parallel lines to add another dimension to renders. This is something that Rudy does, too, and brilliantly, but very selectively. I greatly appreciate you sharing your knowledge and amazing ability with us on a regular basis.
Thank you, this helps out while I studying rendering from comic artists. You said that we should also study comic artists, but rendering is like looking at code, but it's not so mysterious with this video.
Great video! It would be interesting to see you compare your pencil rendering to your ink rendering! And I dare say it would also be quite interesting for yourself to study the differencees! Thank you for this video! ✌🏻☺️
Hi David, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate you!. If possible can you please Hatch or Cross Hatch a face portrait the comic way?.
Thanks for the video Dave. I love your work and your videos. It's crazy how you're kind of contradicting your normal style by dumbing down the amount of rendering you normally do with your art. Your style is one that has influenced me over the years and I can kind of see your point with this video that keeping the rendering light in certain areas does have more punch. However, I still like the heavily rendered style especially when the character is in a much darker environment. I'm gonna go ahead and practice this technique and maybe add it to my style. I kinda feel like I'm struggling myself with rendering a lot and keeping it a little cleaner with the render like you mentioned. Thanks again for the video and your words of knowledge.
Thank you, Dave! This is a specific sub-topic, but I'm really fascinated by the broken single-hatching lines you do, the same as Steve McNiven and Moebius. You've used this technique as far back as 2014 (I think), but it has a fidelity in the rendering that sets off the comic style hatching with a matured effect. I've been trying to understand the theory/feel behind it. I'd love to see an additional tutorial on broken-line hatching. You used this technique in the Uncanny X-Men #10 cover, and Steve McNiven used it a lot in the War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 cover. The crossinghatching you've taught here is fantastic as well. I've really needed the explanation behind the fading technique. I learned the contouring method but kept doing rigid non-fades. I'm going to practice the fades more and will continue keeping eye out for more crossinghatching tutorials.
Great video. Lots of information on a simple technic. I draw for fun, not formally trained. Unless you count How to draw the Marvel way training. I do want to up my game. I want to get at least to the level of your worst day of drawing, because your worst day of drawing is still amazing.
Hey, David! Are you left-handed, or is the video flipped horizontally? Either way, that's awesome because I am always curious to see how other left-handed artists tackle their work or demonstrations. For me, I often work right to left and bottom to top. I also wear a little friction glove, which usually helps with the accidental smearing of lead or ink. Anyone else here a lefty? Feel free to share a little bit with me. This stuff doesn't really matter all that much, but I am curious by nature.
Any chance we can get a short video on shadow shapes? Ie How to do them. You did a video on negative space drawing which I think was the beginning of the idea of shadow shapes.
Very good tips about shading figures. : ) Is there a companion tutorial about creating tones in backgrounds too? For example, say the figure in this tutorial had a black background shape behind him that needed to go from a solid black to white, but not look 'dead' or hyper-mechanical.
Hi David this video helped me understand cross hatching much better. Thank u for sharing this video. Question for your course on your website for the head study’s is it a one time fee for $40? Or a month.
This might be a tedious question but when you fill in black areas with your pencil how do you get it so smooth? I use 2h lead and it never looks that clean. Thanks for another amazing tutorial!
Looks like he's using pretty smooth paper, so it's probably the kind of texture of the paper you're using if I had to guess. The texture of the paper makes a big difference.
I'd agree that the paper does a lot. Strathmore Bristol Smooth behaves well with both hard pencil as well as ink, and I think that's what he uses. Pressure control does play a part in it, but you should test out the paper too.
I learned to really cross hatch in 1987/88 as a 15 year old copying Simon Bisleys ABC Warriors from 2000ad, he's known for his painted artwork etc but this black & white stuff still blows my mind over 30 years later. This vid reminded me of the lessons I learned & how lucky people are to watch an actual tutorial from a pro these days, ON THEIR PHONE (yes, i sound old cos i am lol) , I'd have killed just to be at a Bisley signing in the 80s!! Well worth a search/look & indeed a read (PC & woke free storytelling) to anyone not familiar with it.
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Best Drawing Teacher ever.
Seriously is.
Abusoltly he is the g.o.a.t
Thank you, I always love to cross hatch when sketching but it looks like it's time to level it up!
Wise words from a Master.
What a wonderful time to be an artist. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. This video helped me so much.
you are getting better and better as a teacher, Dave. I miss the Flock, next one I´ll be there!
May God bless you, sir
Happy x-mas Maestro!! God bless you and family!!!
Merry Christmas David
Excellent continuation of sharing your rendering methods with us. Cleared up some little mistakes I have definitely made.
Utterly fascinating!! This is what is missing in how to draw books. Mysteries unlocked!!!!
so freakin amazing, had no idea crosshatching was done thick to thin....it is so amazing how you know where to soften.
WOW!!! I've been an artist for over 30 years. I've watched endless tutorials on cross-hatch shading. I really wish I had the ability to watch THIS tutorial 25 years ago... Those little touches add sooooo much to a piece of artwork! Thank you David! You are easily my favorite artist!!
I'll add this to my skill set. Thanx for breaking in down for us! Also glad i got to see this artwork for your O.C!🔥🔥
Great one Dave!!! Thank you!!!
This channel is full of treasures! THANK YOU for all your videos!!!
Thank you David! I was wondering why my rendering felt so stiff (and you are right, figuring it out on your own when its technically correct is very hard). Your explanation and examples were spot on! Great insight from a master. Cheers!
Thanks David, I'll definitely use this in my own drawings.
Thanks sir David finch for the awesome video
finally a awesome video in cross hitching....
with great detail.
can't get enough of David's lessons ....Merry Christmas
I still fall into that "technically correct" but wrong technique trap.
Don't even know I'm doing it but once it's done I notice it and can't work out why it looks off, especially when it works in other parts.
This is a great tip 👍
I always wondered why my rendering looked like that! This was insanely helpful. And another sponsored video, nice 👌🏾
Thanks A lot Dave!!! Another amazing tutorial🤙🏾 Thankyou for taking time from what I can only imagine is a very busy schedule to help guide your FinchFlock! Ally and Dad wish you, Meredith and the boys an amazing Christmas, you all deserve it.
The comicbook Boss Ross.Happy little rendering. 🎨
🤯 Man, so useful! That’s going to help my drawings a LOT! Tbh I usually don’t watch most RUclips videos all the way through, but I always do with the David Finch tutorial videos!! Thanks Dave! ✍️
Awesome. can't wait to see what it wold looks like next.
I usually see u in the streams. But, What's your name? I cant read the language!
I cannot begin to describe how helpful your tutorials were to my progression! Thank you david finch!
He is aliveeeeeeeeeee
Thank you for the master class, Dave. 👏👏👏
Ayy; glad you followed up on this. Saw you on Proko's channel and was hoping you'd follow it up on your own
Oh man, I love it when dave shares exercises...
What a nice tutotial, I learned a lot, thanks Mr David Finch ☺️
Awesome video Dave! Thank you! 🐔💕
I love these nuts & bolts tutorials!
You are perhaps the contemporary greatest !!!!
Amazing, this simple technique just leveled-up my rendering skills! I knew there was a specific way to improve my rendering, but I couldn’t figure it out! Thank you for sharing this technique Mr. Finch, I’ve been looking for a rendering technique that didn’t make my work look plan and stiff. Thank you! I love your work, you’re the man!👍🏾👍🏾
Awesome new intro David 🍀
Excellent info and brilliant presentation! I think you are about the best "renderer" out there, except perhaps for Rudy Nebres who is best known for his inking-- and who is some 40 years longer in the biz! I was especially interested when you touched on using dead-weight, parallel lines to add another dimension to renders. This is something that Rudy does, too, and brilliantly, but very selectively. I greatly appreciate you sharing your knowledge and amazing ability with us on a regular basis.
Rudy is awesome!
YES! finally! I need this so much and its here and it's free oh God thank you youtube exist and thank you Mr. Finch!
Thank you, this helps out while I studying rendering from comic artists. You said that we should also study comic artists, but rendering is like looking at code, but it's not so mysterious with this video.
This video was so helpful. Thank you so much.
thank you and merry Christmas.😉
Amazing video and information. Thanks David! 😁
Bruh absolute legend David Finch saving all our asses from drawing terribly
So wish I had ,even,this knowledge DECADES ago.
Fantastic video! Thanks so much for this
this is exactly what ive been needing. thank u
100%Thank You for the close up.
Спасибо, дядя Финч!
Russians 🤦
Добрейший день, да. 🌅
Какие то проблемы, дружище?
Great video! It would be interesting to see you compare your pencil rendering to your ink rendering! And I dare say it would also be quite interesting for yourself to study the differencees! Thank you for this video! ✌🏻☺️
Incredibly helpful as always sir, thank you and Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much Dave🔥🔥🙏
Good information on the advancement of cross hatching. I can't wait to learn from this vid!!!
you are a very good instructor as well , I learned a lot 👍
This helps a lot, I'm sure it will just take practice to understand it better. Thank you!
Nice! I hope this brings my hatching to the next level! :) Thanks for the great video again!
This a great artistic artwork david flinch
woow best tutorial I've seen on cross hatching! thank you!!
David I'm having trouble where to start drawing comic art beacuse I really want to be like you
Dave this was like mana from Heaven. Thanks
Hi David, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate you!. If possible can you please Hatch or Cross Hatch a face portrait the comic way?.
brilliant, thank you!
Thanks for the video Dave. I love your work and your videos. It's crazy how you're kind of contradicting your normal style by dumbing down the amount of rendering you normally do with your art. Your style is one that has influenced me over the years and I can kind of see your point with this video that keeping the rendering light in certain areas does have more punch. However, I still like the heavily rendered style especially when the character is in a much darker environment. I'm gonna go ahead and practice this technique and maybe add it to my style. I kinda feel like I'm struggling myself with rendering a lot and keeping it a little cleaner with the render like you mentioned. Thanks again for the video and your words of knowledge.
thank you for the tutorial Mr.Finch this tutorial is very helpful!!!
Thank you, Dave! This is a specific sub-topic, but I'm really fascinated by the broken single-hatching lines you do, the same as Steve McNiven and Moebius. You've used this technique as far back as 2014 (I think), but it has a fidelity in the rendering that sets off the comic style hatching with a matured effect. I've been trying to understand the theory/feel behind it. I'd love to see an additional tutorial on broken-line hatching. You used this technique in the Uncanny X-Men #10 cover, and Steve McNiven used it a lot in the War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha #1 cover. The crossinghatching you've taught here is fantastic as well. I've really needed the explanation behind the fading technique. I learned the contouring method but kept doing rigid non-fades. I'm going to practice the fades more and will continue keeping eye out for more crossinghatching tutorials.
Todd Mcfarlane. Dot dash, you’ll learn from him.
Love this video!🔥 Thanks for sharing !
Great video. Lots of information on a simple technic. I draw for fun, not formally trained. Unless you count How to draw the Marvel way training. I do want to up my game. I want to get at least to the level of your worst day of drawing, because your worst day of drawing is still amazing.
so good! thanks Dave!
Thank you amazing teacher!!!!
Hey, David! Are you left-handed, or is the video flipped horizontally? Either way, that's awesome because I am always curious to see how other left-handed artists tackle their work or demonstrations.
For me, I often work right to left and bottom to top. I also wear a little friction glove, which usually helps with the accidental smearing of lead or ink.
Anyone else here a lefty? Feel free to share a little bit with me. This stuff doesn't really matter all that much, but I am curious by nature.
Just in case he doesn't answer- he is a lefty
Yeah, I'm leafty too!!
so this is why all my forms look so flat. thank you so much
Lead size?
Wow. It's actually simpler than you would think.
I wanna know what are your thoughts on Rob Liefeld and his art/shading style??
Any chance we can get a short video on shadow shapes? Ie How to do them. You did a video on negative space drawing which I think was the beginning of the idea of shadow shapes.
David i love you haha, greetings from Brazil ❤
More inking tutorials please, nice video.
Very good tips about shading figures. : ) Is there a companion tutorial about creating tones in backgrounds too? For example, say the figure in this tutorial had a black background shape behind him that needed to go from a solid black to white, but not look 'dead' or hyper-mechanical.
Hi David this video helped me understand cross hatching much better. Thank u for sharing this video. Question for your course on your website for the head study’s is it a one time fee for $40? Or a month.
Can you please make a tutorial for muscles..
I know how to make one before but its really hard using a anatomy
I love your content
Thanks i needed this video to understand why my rendering was coming out flat sometimes
Hey David! I have a question, what lead do you use and what mechanical pencil is that?
how do you keep the pencil tip sharp? mine goes dull in 2-3 strokes
Thank you
this is very helpful!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks, master!
Anyone know the lead softness he normally uses?
This might be a tedious question but when you fill in black areas with your pencil how do you get it so smooth? I use 2h lead and it never looks that clean. Thanks for another amazing tutorial!
Looks like he's using pretty smooth paper, so it's probably the kind of texture of the paper you're using if I had to guess. The texture of the paper makes a big difference.
I'd agree that the paper does a lot. Strathmore Bristol Smooth behaves well with both hard pencil as well as ink, and I think that's what he uses. Pressure control does play a part in it, but you should test out the paper too.
what kind of pencil is that? thank you!
Well, this explains a lot 😅 Thank you, great video
lol, the master nonchalantly throwing down a few strokes "thats all there is to it"
What pencil tht you use pliss share :)
Hy, please make a video on the topic basic shape of human figure
I learned to really cross hatch in 1987/88 as a 15 year old copying Simon Bisleys ABC Warriors from 2000ad, he's known for his painted artwork etc but this black & white stuff still blows my mind over 30 years later.
This vid reminded me of the lessons I learned & how lucky people are to watch an actual tutorial from a pro these days, ON THEIR PHONE (yes, i sound old cos i am lol) , I'd have killed just to be at a Bisley signing in the 80s!!
Well worth a search/look & indeed a read (PC & woke free storytelling) to anyone not familiar with it.
Bisley's work on ABC Warriors is some of the best inked comic art of the 80s, right up there with Glenn Fabry's inked work on Slaine the King
What kind of pencil is that
Perhaps point this method as was done in your art and or old Marvel comics art. Anything to (cement)point out it use .
Somebody tell me what paper I should draw on for comics?
Can anyone tell me what type of pencil he’s probably using ??
Fantastic thank you 😊
Talk about your roll in Jason Faboks career!