Diagonal hatch: a photo shaded with crossed and single slanted strokes
Diagonal hatch draws each cell with one mark from a five-step ramp of slanting strokes: a crossed X where the image is brightest, then single slanted strokes of decreasing weight, and a dotted diagonal in the dimmest cells. As a fine-line style it carries those faint dotted marks deep into the shadows, so the whole frame is covered in a slanted texture, much as an etcher shades a copper plate. Portraits suit it best, because the crosses gather on the lit side of a face and pick out the cheekbone, nose and lips.
Make it yours
Keep the crosses on the light
Lower Dark cut-off from 30 to 10 and fewer cells reach the crossed and heavy strokes, so the hatching concentrates on the brightest planes and a portrait looks lit by one hard source.
Warm it like an old print
Set Tint amount to 30 with Tint blend on Soft light to wash strokes and backdrop in a single hue. The default orange gives the copper glow of an etching seen under lamplight.
FAQ
Can Diagonal hatch look like a pen drawing?
Close to it. Turn on Invert so the strokes gather in the shadows instead of the highlights, set Saturation to -100 for gray ink, and choose Transparent as the Backdrop. Only the hatching remains, ready to place on a light page or a paper texture in your layout.
How it works
Upload an image
Add a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 20 MB, or start from a sample photo, and keep the original ratio or crop to 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9 or 9:16.
Choose a style
Photo art draws with 8 glyph styles such as Characters, Blocks, Braille and Mixed glyphs; ASCII offers 8 character sets including Matrix, Binary and your own characters.
Style and use it
Add glyph glow, an RGB split, scanlines or bloom, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.