Untitled

About this work

This sketch shows a face and shoulders drawn in loose, tangled pencil lines. The lines overlap everywhere—hair, clothes, even the background—making it look like a web. The face is simple but the rest is messy, with no clean edges. The artist used lots of thin lines piled on top of each other, a technique called *cross-hatching*. It’s not a polished portrait—it’s more like a quick, rough idea. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.