AN EXPERIMENT

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

This is looking cool, the only problem is that the patterns you're using are very similar, tonally. If you squint your eyes a bit, they look near enough the same. Vary them more, basically.

I'm not sure how you're actually putting this together so I'm not sure what to tell you to do. You could try laying down solid blocks of grey and getting a good tonal range, and then applying patterns that "match" each shade of grey.

Hopefully you understand what I'm saying because I'm worried I'm talking bollocks.

Yes, I do see what you mean and I was aware of it (but just in a hurry to post my work!!), and it is an issue in readability to a certain extent: but I'm wondering if pattern isn't more important than tonal variances in this case. Maybe the variety of the piece relies more on the different patterns than the different tones; I'll give it a shot, this is an experiment after all. I think I can sort this out with new patterns, maybe upscaling some patterns (like the "jean" pattern)? What I did was draw some quick line art, upscale the piece fourfold, and create some patterns and applying them to various areas to the piece. Does that answer your question, or are you looking more for the result I want to get to? What do you think about letting the patterns bleed out of their outlines, like in watercolour pieces or old ads or comics?
I'm also wondering if introducing RGB could make it look better.
Oh nick, I actually started this with little textured sketches, this is basically a pixellated transition.
Feel free to post pattern pics, it might be included in my work (read as I'm too lazy to look for some)!
Thanks for the feedback, I'll post very soon!