The Prud’houn Method

Materials:

Conte Crayon, black and white.Use a soft crayon for the intial steps when blending . Use a harder crayon on the final layers when youwant the hatches to remain visible.

The paper is is a gray-blue.

Use a tortilla to blend the chalk.

Outline

Bold hatching

3 Stump Out Hatches

4 Hatch White

5 Hatch Black

6 Lightly Stump

7 Apply White Again

8 Add Black Again

9 Hatch, Tortillon, and Hatch Again

10 Finishing Refinements

To emulate Prud'hon, apply the hatches in rows, NOT RANDOMLY. As the rows add up, you get a continuous tone. The hatches only slightly interlock:

Yet more on applying the hatchesPrud'hon's particular hatching technique is eccentric.

It is instructive to take a guess at how he worked, try it out, and see if you think your work improves. I can attest that the struggle to render in his manner (which is difficult) has strengthened my painting.