>>3185145Well, at first i was just using it as a quick way to shade my daily sketches, and i found it to be kinda cool, so i started using it on colored pieces too. Actually,many of my color pieces are just older sketches that i colored (pic rel). Because i didn't intend for them to be colored at the time, to make them work with color is a bit of a balancing act. This one i pulled off pretty well, imo.
>>3185549I don't mind it looking a bit weird. I get what you saying about it being confusing, but i think it's a question of individual perception. I'd say about 10% of the people who comment on my stuff say that they find the hatching distracting and/or painful to look at, while everyone else is fine with it, with around 10% also stating that they like it exactly because of the hatching.
And believe me, i'm already too dogmatic about my art as it is, if i start doing all my hatching in a single direction (instead of doing it in whichever direction i feel it would work in specific situation) on top of that, i'm gonna just descend into total autism.
As for Gauguin and synthetism, all the stuff google shows to me is the paintings, i can't see a single graphic work. The works i shared here are graphic drawings (even when i throw in some flat colors, it doesn't make it a painting), and i just don't think you can get the same feel with the fat dark lines as you can with the brushstrokes (assuming i even wanted to get the same feel, which i don't, from what i saw it really isn't my cup of tea).
>>3185591Don't worry, i don't mind criticism. And it's not like i'm gonna start doing anything that i don't personally like, too, so it's fine.
>>3186135Yeh, the legs are kinda weird here. It actually relates to the thing i said above. I'm very dogmatic about my art. so i feel like in cases like this one i could avoid the weird look in certain places, but that would require me to deviate from the established process, which i have really quite hard time doing sometimes.