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cross-hatching

📅 Updated:2026-01-01
🕒 Created:2019-05-08
🆔 ID:25115

Description

Artistic technique of using closely-spaced parallel and intersecting lines to simulate shading. A staple of older monochrome media such as engravings and woodcuts, today it is commonly associated with black-and-white cartoons.

See also:

  • hatching_(art) - technique that uses parallel (non-intersecting) lines.