HATCHING

Hatching

Hatching is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching.

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hatching

Noun

  1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
    We got a good hatching from the Swallowtail eggs.
  3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

Verb

hatching



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