I made a new halftone pattern i like and a consistent way to get it to bitmap trace in Inkscape, at first i did it all on one layer like a goofball but now i figured separating them not only makes it possible to trace with a mediocre computer, but also doesn't muddy up the drawing when the tone, hatching, and lineart meets each other. You can sorta see it in this drawing because i didn't bother doing allat...
I made the pattern with my printer that can only print in black and white, and just printed grays from 100 to 5 opacity in increments of five (this is 10)
also used my white color for a light source which I've realized I've neglected to do in the comic uurrg