High-Class

About this work

This sketch shows two people standing in a dim room with heavy curtains. The person on the left wears a long coat and a hood, holding something small in their hands. The person on the right stands with a cane, dressed in a long robe and a hat, looking down. The walls and floor are filled with tight, crisscrossed lines, giving everything a rough, textured look. The artist used lots of overlapping lines to build up shadows and shapes—this is called cross-hatching. It makes the scene feel heavy and detailed, even though it’s just ink on paper. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists use it to create depth.