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Hi. I'm Jason Shoemaker at Slugfest Printmaking Workshop. I'm going to show you a little bit
about cross hatching and a few basic tonal techniques with the burin. We have some lines
here and it's basically as you would cross hatch a drawing or anything else. One thing
to keep in mind is that when you come up to that line you've already made the burin's
going to want to give a little bit. And at that point just ease up on the pressure a
little bit. If not your burin's going to slam basically into a wall of copper and you could
break off the tip which of course you'd have to resharpen. So just keep moving along and
you can create some tone. The beauty of engraving is that you can create tone with the weight
of the line. Cross hatching has a very valid technique in it. Another one is stippling.
There is a tool specifically for stippling. But you can do the same thing with just your
burin. But it's making little pock marks like so. You actually get some really neat effects
that way. You can also put those between lines. That'll help you build up your tone. And one
thing to keep in mind is you did make a lot of little burrs so you're going to need your
scraping tool again to pop those off. And if you want those burrs are going to hold
a little bit of ink and it'll be a little fuzzy pattern. While we're here always have
a brush. You're removing metal and the habit, especially coming from a drawing background,
is to use your hand to wipe off the dust. This is a handy little tool. Use it. Wipe
off the metal. That'll keep you from getting it in your hands.