I've been going about it all wrong

Well, not all wrong, but halfway-ish wrong. As mentioned before, a favorite illustrator of mine is Steve Mack, and I've been playing around with the idea of illustrating with texture within Adobe Illlustrator (and Inkscape) as he does. I struck upon a different means of going about it, much speedier than the way I'd been trying, and with what I expect will be better results once I get a chance to really play with it. I'm excited!

The Halloween illustration in the previous post won't get the texture treatment until next year, I'm afraid, but the first illustration with this new found technique will be posted soon, I hope. May be a couple weeks, though. (Dashing through the snow...)