It's sweet! I got the idea from old wood-print drawings and etchings (like the images on dollar bills) and I found it works really well for skin textures

I like that horizontal and vertical dithering, gotta try that myself!

Thank you all! I worked on him for a while. If I had to improve it, I think i'd probably scale back the dithering and put some chunkier shades in there, maybe desaturate the darker browns a bit

The low color count with fairly high contrast and striped dithering makes this feel like a Sega Genesis game. But in a good way; this would be on the upper tier of Genesis stuff, like Beyond Oasis.

It's well done, regardless of struggling to make it look good. I love the texturing.

Solid work.