"Los Caprichos"

This is one of Francisco De Goya's drawings from his collection titled "Los Caprichos."  In this collection he uses cross hatching and many different shades of darker tones to develop the lighting in his work.  The darkest parts of the drawing are created with cross hatching, placed on top of other cross hatching.  What this does is almost creates a flat black shadow in the picture.  The lightest parts of the drawing are white and it seems as if they are created from the absence of sketching in general.  To me the most interesting part is the darkness of the basket and the way he used different lines to create the realistic texture of it.