BEAUTIFUL

Oh how lovely, it's looks like a comic strip print on a local newspaper. How fascinating. :3 Excellent art, I especially love the characters themselves.

I've never seen digital cross hatching like this. Is it a brush technique, a brush setting or copy/paste/stamping? With some minor off puts, this does seem like it was all done by hand. Sad to see that even computers can mimic cross-hatching now

Basically, it's making pattern fills out of repeatable squares of hatching, then layering them up. lachland-nightingale's tutorial explains it. I hope to do my own tutorial once I've refined the process a bit.

I wouldn't say it's sad; if it saves time, labour and stress on the parts of a picture where hand-detailing isn't necessary, that must be good. But there's a lot you can't do with it: you can't control the hatching direction, bend it around corners, achieve textural effects, subtly vary tone, or do convincing gradients. And you don't have the satisfaction, or the saleable item, of a finished original on paper.

this is really lovely! from afar it comes together very nicely, and up close my eyes get lost in the repetitions. i love it.