Pen & Ink Drawing Tutorials | Beginners introduction to crosshatching & basic strokes 

Alphonso, your drawing videos got me through my heroine addictiion. I know this sounds odd but I'm not joking, your lesson kept me sane. The encouragement to draw kept me sane. I know you're busy with a family but I would be an as Sholes if I didn't try to meet you. I live in LA, CA.

Hi Alphonso. I am 62 and thanks to you and your tutorials I have just started to draw and discover that this a wonderful hobby ! I am not that bad (not that good either :-) ) but it is a real fun, cranking Pink Floyd and drawing!. You have allowed me to enjoy it inmensely. Muchas Gracias!!! Would you have time to criticize some of my early Works?

After showing the various possible strokes and lines and curves, it would be encouraging to see some examples of those strokes used in a practical way in a drawing.

Love your tutorials! You break it down into easy moments, thank you. I'm 65 and have gone back to college to take art classes... something I've never done except for my 2 art classes back in 1975 for my BA. You have helped me at home perfect the concept my instructor is trying to convey. Thank you once again.

I'm not sure why your videos started showing up in my recommended listings, but I'm really enjoying them. Thank you for posting them and keeping them up for a few years!

I'm also older - 54 - and have been artistic all my life - however sketching was always my weakest skill and your videos have helped me immensely. Thanks!

I love how everyone’s so at ease and genuinely kind in this comment section. The age and background diversity are also amazing.

Am 42 and am starting to draw again, after last drawing when I was 15. Am starting right at the basics, to get some kind of foundation, so this will help greatly. The best part of beginners tutorials is that I can do themat work, whenever I have a few minutes spare. Thanks for all your vids.

I used to draw sometimes as a kid but don't exactly know what kept me away from art for so many years. Really wish to start afresh by learning from you :) Thanks & keep posting! !!

Wow. NO one has ever explained crosshatching or shown detailed examples of how to follow shapes. It makes sense to me now... This isn't the video I saw linked to my drawing teacher's resources, but also valuable. Thank you.

Finally I've found your videos.. It's like learning from someone in person. I was about to give up drawing. Now I am starting from scratch. Thanks a lot sir.

Thank you so much. I have watched half a dozen videos on hatching before I came to this. It annoyed me so much that they could not just show off the basics. Your videos really do the trick. It's admirable how you manage to pass off so much information with the kind of high quality graphic productions that some other art youtubers have. Greetings from Norway.

I just started watching you this year and you have really helped me to get back into my drawing and get better. I enjoy watching your videos.

Hello Alphonso. I'm Janina from the Philippines. I just want to commend you on doing such a great job in your tutorials. It really means so much to me. I haven't drawn in years. But due to the pandemic, I found some time to re discover my passion for art. That's when I found your tutorials. I feel like I'm starting from square one but thats ok. I think mastering the basics will get me far. I wish you all the best in life and on your career. It's so amazing how you inspire a lot of people with just paper, pencil and ink. I love how it's so simple yet profound. Keep up the good work and keep inspiring people 😊

Fantastic! I really want to learn to draw with ink. I will be watching and learning from all your tutorials. Thank you for your generosity to share your knowledge.

This is absolutely glorious! I've always stuck to simple hatching and crosshatching; although I've seen these variations around, I'd never thought to utilise them! Thank you much!

Alphonso. you have no idea have long i had been wondering the name of drawing lines like this. and suddenly youtube offered me a video and i have found my answer. thank you buddy for this great tutorial

thank you Alphonso for this video... I am really going to practise some of these lines as I think I need to do this to get some ideas of shading... you make it look so simple x

This tutorial is exactly what I need! Thank you so much. Will definitely be practicing these over the holidays. I want to be good at urban sketching and your channel really helps!

love it. I'm gonna work my way through all of your videos.

Was taught this in art class in high school striaght line, Cross hatch and stimple is great for shading, visual art.

Thanks so much for you very clear and explicit instructions. Learning more about drawing with each session. Cheers, Sharon (South Australia)

Excellent video. I've spent a long time with pen & ink and you have introduced me to yet more variations!! Thank you so much.

Since I can't get ahold of how to shade with pencils, I decided to try using my pen. After drawing a cube and shading it using only hatching and cross-hatching I thought, "Wow. Who knew I could draw a cube this beautiful?" Lol. 😂 Plus, I really love the deep blackness it gives. ❤

Hey alphonso loving your fundamentals and basics you are incredibly talented to say the very least.... i would love to see a tutorial on drawing elements and how you go about choosing what material to render certain things in an image along with more environmental tutorials and also on how you get motivated and in the mindset of drawing, these would be amazingly helpful!!! again thanks for your videos dude your a massive inspiration!!!

Thanks for your effort, Alphonso. You are a really good educator and you transmit knowledge really well. I'll definitely buy your books! I am improving a lot with your explanations.

You are literally the man, thanks for the great direction

I'm surprised that you don't have more subscribers than you currently have. Your tutorials have been a huge help! Thanks for helping peeps out!

Great video! Got your books and I am excited!

two weeks ago I bought your book that should arrive by the 19 th of May and this week I bought the workbook that should be arriving around the 29th of the same month. I just can.t wait. Mean while I try to practice every day.

All this information is really helpful. Thanks for making these tutorials :)

What a great video for running through the basics and touching on the variations. Thank you!

I am homeschooling my 15 year old son (10th grade) and we decided to do Drawing 101 as an elective for next semester. I came across your playlist and am really impressed. I have incorporated your lessons as the main learning source for my son. I am so excited for him because he has the skill and I just need to get him (encourage him) to perfect it. I am looking forward to his progress under your direction. Thank you so much for offering such amazing and detailed tutorials. Lanita.

Thanks dude I needed this for class.

Alfonso, thank you so much for your tutorials! I really appreciate them! I just wish that the camera was positioned so we could actually see the pen meeting the paper while you are drawing rather than looking at your hand and seeing the drawing only when your hand is moved out of the field of vision.

Great stuff, sir! As a novice trying desperately to get ideas from brain to paper, this is much appreciated. Thank you!

I love art ,from China,Ur video really cheers me ,this website is locked by the government,I watch it by vpn

Thank you Mr.Dunn for this!

Alphonso, you draw the way I think. I have always loved pen & ink drawings. I am trying to sketch from real life for the first time in a decade, instead of just tracing over photos.

That was so beneficial, thank you

THANK YOU SO.... MUCH! WE ARE LEARNING A LOT FROM YOU, THANKS FOR YOUR KINDNESS FOR SHARING AND TEACHING. WE REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR TIMES AND YOUR KINDNESS.

Excellent video. Just started drawing 35 days ago. Am a senior. Enjoying this hobby very much. Your tutorial is very much to the point and easy to follow and understand. Just the video that I was looking for. Subscribing for more of these good tutorials. Thank you 🙏 so much. ☘️🌝🌲

You sir are a great teacher, watched one video and new sub!

Great video! :-D Saving this.

I love these foundational basics! Thank you so much for sharing. I would love to see a video on how to choose materials - what paper, pens and pencils you recommend.

you are awesome!! thank you for the tutorials!!!

Alphonso, I just filled the first page of my first sketch book with this tutorial. Thanks for spending the time to make it. Jeff

I am a comic art fanatic, i have lots of Moebius, Pratt, Breccia, Buscema, Russ Manning!! so with this oasis of information you built, now i can enjoy so much better all my heros and (step by step, i know) learn how to draw! Gracias Alfonso! :D

best channel ever

Thank youuuuuu soooooo much!!!!!! Your video help a lot. I'm a student of Fashion design but my sketching and illustrating skills are like 3/10. But after watching your videos and practicing I improved a lot. 💗💗💗

i just got a pack of micron pens for christmas and this video was very very helpful! Thank you very much, awesome video!

Thanks a lot, you explain very well and it s a good excercise de improve my english, see you soon for more about waterfall

Thank you very much for these videos...i sketch with black ink all the time so i decided to view your "basic drawing and fundamentals" videos and i continue to learn more and more as I go. this video in particular has just open my eyes and really showed me how to think outside the box. i was doing some of these techniques without actually thinking about them. So this video has brought it to the forefront of my mind. I also understand "form" clearly now... and at the same time learning about "basics shapes" and "form" is also allowing me to understand "value" and "value changes" as well. I can also see that although you're using pen and ink this can also cross over to pencil as well. So very excited to now understand this information and realize how important "attention to form" actually is. I guess it just took a while for me to find a video(s) that spoke in a language i can understand through the use of something i love to do all the time. lol....thanks a lot. I really feel i should be paying for this information lol.

Great Video! I have to practice more.

Love love love watching your drawings

Well done. I am a fan!!

Good tutorial, but you have to improve your video quality plz. The focus and the resolution of the video. Tnx Alphonso.

Thanks for the video, just got back into drawing with pen and ink and this is a very helpful video!

Thank you - you a most talent artist from all, that i know from RU-vid! I like to draw by pen and pencil, and your videos is very usefull and bring many ideas! Thank you !!!

Great videos, sir! I love your channel. You are so talented!

WOW!!! I really appreciate your detailed explanations and logical reasoning as to how, why, and where to use these particular shading, and lining techniques! I REALLY want to "Master" the pen and ink shading and drawing techniques, and then use those skills to make designs to be engraved, and/or, acid etched into sheet metal, or solid metal, ( as in gun, or knife) engraving. I think it's lind of "magical" to make a 2D surface appear to be very 3D in appearance! Many Thanks!!

Great tutorial Sir!

its what i call art!! awesome

I love these videos so damn much! THANK YOU!

the layers thing got me thank you for that

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was extremely helpful!! :)

Hi Alphonso, Thanks for all your tutorials. For Inktober2018, I've decided to learn the basics of drawing with pen and ink everyday. This tutorial is for Day 1 :) Thanks again, Min Maybe you could do special Inktober lessons for beginners :)

Thankyou for the video:) . You have a very comforting every and you instructions are very thorough especially in the book.

Thank you Mr AD 👍🇮🇳

Hi Alphonso, I want also to give back to your generous advice, Notice in 16:16 in the layer section, the second layer that you applied, by coincidence, gave the impression of depth a 3d effect, I guess because you applied shorter and shorter line as you went to the center, imagine the drawing is bigger, it can be seen as in the middle of the woods, you can add a creature or a house etc in that center, or around it.. and give a dramatic or scary effect , or nightly view etc. thanks for the tips

non seulement vous etes un excellent professeur mais vous le faites avec beaucoup de generosité. Merci

Thank you for letting me use pencil, and an eraser I hope... I'm just a novice old dog which is learning a new trick.... Thanks for the tutorial. Oh, I like your name!

you're such a very skilled

Hii.. Thankyou so much sir fir these video nd playlist.. U r gr8 sir.. I m from India.. Nd I really want to learn this art.. Day by day ur videos help me to became an artist... Thanks God that we have mentor nd teacher like you.. Thankyou sir😊

Thank you so much. You are awesome.

Great tutorial. Thanks!

Hola desde España Alfonso, decirte que tus tutoriales me estan ayudando mucho, son muy amenos y didacticos. Estaria bien que un dia nos contaras para que usas uno u otro lapiz o rotulador, cuales son tus preferidos y porque. O poner escrito el material que sueles utilizar en cada video. Es solo una sugerencia . Muchas gracias por transmitir tu conocimiento.

YOUR VIDEOS ARE REALLY REALLY HELPFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCHHH

I just did this with pencil, excellent exercises!

This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thnx! Very helpful exercises. Subscribed 😎

hey.1st time i have checked out your tutorial...Interestin!!! (i am new to theART SIDE) and am searching and learning many things..not a spring chicken so not sure of my keen desire for this knowledge of the (ART) world!..Will say i have noticed a peacefulness when I indulge.Did notice learning the strokes will strengthen my doodling..i"ll B back..thanks!!!!

This is a really helpful video! Awesome channel!

Thanx for sharing knowledge..:)

so true, practicing the right things! you sound really patient, thank you! my wrist is screaming just watching you. do you hold your elbow off the table or rest it on the table?

افضل معلم رسم شكرا جزيلا لك .

You are a great teacher . Un gran maestro . Muy didáctico

Like this a lot. Thanks.

thank you so much for this tutorial!

you are an awesome teacher!

thanks a lot .you are really helpful. I will practices this everyday. thanks again

Fantastic. Thank you so much 🙏 subscribed 😃

Hello Alphonso. I bought your Pen and ink drawing last year and now just started the workbook. It is really awesome practice, exactly what I’d been needing! Question: did you intend for the hand / base of hand to maintain position when changing line direction (for example exercise 1.4) or it is ok to adjust? What about rotating paper?

Very good video Alfonso Zayas.

quite good i love it

Thank you. Definitely get the camera off to the left and slightly down pointing to the right and up. That way your hand won't get in the way. And lock the focus. Keep it up.

mr Dunn thanks for the excercises :)

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This video was great and helpful, but I have one question...Is Alphon soDunn?

Just rewatched this and found more gold in them hills lol thanks for the content.