Intaglio printmaking can be dated back to the "Sumerian" people, around the year of 3000 BCE. The name itself however is relatively new, coming from the Latin "intagliare" which means "to cut"
Hatching is a technique used by artists to create tonal or shading effects in their drawings. Cross hatching and contour hatching are two of the 6 basic hatching techniques. Cross hatching uses <span>fine parallel lines drawn closely together to create the illusion of shade or texture in a </span>drawing. A<span>fter laying down one pass of hatch marks, another set of hatch marks are drawn on top, usually in a perpendicular or near-perpendicular direction to the first set. </span>While in contour hatching<span> there is only one set of hatch marks, and these are lines follow the contours of the subject. </span>
