Hugo Cabret - 2

Here is the second drawing from the series of drawings I am copying from "The invention of Hugo Cabret".

This is an interesting sketch which combines both portraiture as well as architecture. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the architecture since the cross-hatching technique was more pronounced in the facial features than in the walls.

The drawing in the book is much darker that this rendition. I used one 6B graphite pencil for the whole drawing. I am sure the original was done with a few 9B pencils, without which it is hard to get such dark shades.

Hugo Cabret

We recently got the book "The invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. It is a fantastic book with a lot of sketches. When I say, a lot, every other page is a sketch. What I liked about the sketches was the style. Most of the sketches uses a cross hatching technique to render the shades of gray. This piqued my interest and I took it as an interesting challenge to learn this technique.

This is the first of a series of sketches I plan on copying from this book. This is a quick sketch that took less than a half hour to complete.