crosshatching
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˌhætʃɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
trazado cruzado
- He learned that crosshatching was an effective way to create shading in his sketches.
- crosshatching technique
Examples
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Old acne scars lined his face, heavy crosshatching like you'll find on certain savings bonds.
Fiction book (2001) -
I wrote in the Journal of Music earlier this year that the power of the programme lies in the crosshatching of unisonality as experienced through music with the intensity of the collective gaze, as opposed to its wild pageantry, its consensual hearkening to an abstract 'now', or its deleterious 'narratives'.
Blog text (6) -
There was crosshatching on the silver.
Fiction book (1992) -
- I figured the walls needed a little artwork, Iike the lights and darks and the crosshatching and stuff.
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It was starchy pink paper with a crosshatching of gray lines, the numbers embossed in light blue.
Fiction book (1997) -
Bright noticed that the man's nose was unnaturally flattened, and that a fine crosshatching of scars thickened the tissue above each eye.
Fiction book (2001) -
Substrate texture: (a) Radial rosette; (b) circumferential; (c) circumferential with crosshatching.
Academic text (1996) -
You could see, though not far, into the dim interior, the wide planks of the floor, the corner of a bed, the crosshatching that was a nine-patch quilt, and, scarcely there, the merest suggestion of the intertwined legs of a couple.
Fiction book (1993) -
The artist used crosshatching to add depth and texture to her drawings.
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With crosshatching, she skillfully enhanced the contrast between light and shadow.
Synonyms
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6.7
A way of making light and shadow using many short crossing lines
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9.9
A way of shading using many short parallel or crossed lines to show slope and depth
How Shaded
Surface Forms
Morphology
crosshatching = crosshatch (transparent) = cross + hatch + ing
The noun is formed from the verb 'crosshatch' with the productive suffix '-ing' and the meaning is directly compositional: shading created by crossing hatch lines.
Etymology
Crosshatching comes from combining cross and hatch, where hatch means 'small parallel lines' that artists draw to show light and dark. By crossing those hatch lines you get deeper shadows and texture, so crosshatching is simply the drawing technique of using crossing lines to create shading.