I had this same issue and for me it ended up being the pencil I was using (2B). I was getting nice flat tones with it but I couldn’t get my hatch marks to show. I am experimenting with HB, H, and B pencils now and having more luck. I’ll be very interested to see what other people suggest as well. 🙂
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