So, asI said, I am playing around with drawing coniferous forests using Jared Blando's style. However, I didn't like the stark contrast between the pitch black shadows and white capped trees pictured in previous posts. So, I decided to play around with cross hatching and some grey brush pens.

My cross hatching technique needs a lot more work. (Granted that this is my first foray into shading using cross hatching. My 8th grade art teacher never taught me this and I never learned it on my own. All I knew about shading as a kid and teenager was colouring in with a pencil and smudging for gradation.)