Mini-Lesson: A Valuable Cross-Hatching Exercise

[@arielrubinstein5024]

This tutorial is pure gold and should hit a lot more views

[@mkompan]

Thanks! Hopefully it will.

[@katyakompaneyets7982]

Great drawings, Marc!

[@sharonkatz4451]

Terrific video, thank you for posting. I took all your original classes and classes and loved them!

[@mkompan]

Thank you Sharon!

[@fivespice]

Great lesson. Brave soul to use your own photo to mark up!

[@mkompan]

Thank you. These video come up against the complication of finding models, and this one was willing to do it for free.

[@milutindjilas6740]

Great video!!! I just realized thanks to this new lighting setup how much you actually look like Rembrandt van Rijn. :)Cheers!

[@mkompan]

Thank you! It's mostly the lighting, which is very Rembrandt-esque. :)

[@walterwjr947]

A neat studio,,,, no work is being done😊😊😊

[@mkompan]

I tend to think so as well. :)

[@walterwjr947]

@@mkompan 🙏🏿😔🙏🏿

[@robcpwoodturner]

Great lesson, I tried doing a copy of the praying hands by durer recently, it's the worst drawing ever, I may try again using these principles. If you get time and only if you think people would be interested, it would be great to see you do a master copy of praying hands and discuss his techniques and what he would have been thinking about as he did it.

[@mkompan]

Thank you! Durer’s drawings are fantastically difficult to copy, but I’ll put praying hands on my list of tutorials to make.

[@robcpwoodturner]

@mkompan thank you so much. That would be awesome 👌

[@sharonkatz4093]

As always, this is valuable information. Thank you! Have you ever copied Rembrandt? I suppose the etchings more than his drawings because that’s where his cross hatching really shines. I’m going to try one. Can you recommend a really good paper to do it on? Like printmaking paper perhaps? Or something equivalent to the St Armand paper you mentioned in one of the videos?

[@mkompan]

You’re welcome, Sharon! I have copied Rembrandt many times, and found it very enlightening. As with the Goya etchings, Canson Mi-tientes Pearl would be a good choice.

[@TheDynamite333]

Woah, now that's a neat trick! Let me abuse my printer :). Thank you sir!

[@mkompan]

My pleasure! This really is a great training method.

[@mavi162]

caravaggio lighting for the video

[@mkompan]

The best kind to hide the mess behind me. :)