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Cross-Hatching
2nd medium
Pencil
cross-hatching
scribbling
tonal
The coprinus comatus or known as the shaggy mane mushroom stay truhtful to its
name as the top part of the muhroom looks like its peeling and creating a tuff texture.
The top part is white but it gradually gets dark at the bottom creating a strings of
blacks with white tuffs. This technique is called cross-hatching .It is done by stroking
the graphite in an X pattern .It will gives off texture and the direction of the light aswell
as the texture of the mushroom . Hatching can be done in any direction .Time taken 4
hours
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