Cross hatching Exercises!

So I have watched the first of FOUR videos for the first week! I spent the afternoon on the sofa armed with tea, chocolate and a 2H pencil. I practised the greyscale charts with different pencils and then turned the page. I made a greyscale with a 2H and then did some more crosshatching and then to the sphere! It took 2 episodes of The Guardian and half a packet of smarties to finish this! Unfortunately the scan just doesn't show the darks very well so it's lost some of it's depth I think. Pity. It took a long time but I don't think it's too bad. Maybe I spent TOO long on it? Uh oh self doubt creeping in. (Shut up!)



Anyway, it's on to the next video.
The next Illustration Friday is up too.