It's Andy Fish!

Cross Hatching– a method where intersecting lines converge creating black areas– the larger the spread of those connectors– the grayer the image effect will be, the tighter the spread the more it will add black to your work.

Cross Hatching starts with smooth even lines and brush or pen control (depends on what you’re using) as we see in the top left each and every line tapers at both ends, this means that I had full control of the pen as I worked it.

The figure on the right is what we call Drunken Sailor Hatching or as I like to call it The Scratchy Linework of a Madman. In a good art school you’ll get a lesson in cross hatching which is something like taking a sheet of 11×17 Bristol– then crosshatching the entire image from a very light spacing (gray) to a heavy full on black– and if you make ONE SINGLE LINE with a hook (see them in the top right?) you have to do the whole piece again. Trust me you’ll learn to do it right.

The hook lines on the right indicate that I rushed so quickly through the exercise that I lost control of my utensil. Don’t be a drunken inker– take the higher road.