So I often struggle with values anyways and now that I’ve added hatching into the mix it feels even trickier. I definitely want this piece to be black and white so I have some black and white work for my portfolio but I was wondering if black and white pieces should literally be black and white rather than grayscale. If so then that using other values doesn’t even matter.
I tried the 3 value technique to try to figure things out but it didn’t help a whole lot, I still feel a bit lost. Since hatching already adds value should I figure out flat values and then figure out hatching afterwards? Should I ditch doing flat values and just do it all with hatching? Let me know your thoughts and as always if you have any additional feedback on anything else I’m all ears!