: How to produce this gritty shadow effect? I have been seeing this guy's work for a long time, he's just a brilliant artist. And one thing that I find in common in all of his works is a

@Candy945

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I have been seeing this guy's work for a long time, he's just a brilliant artist. And one thing that I find in common in all of his works is a little texture behind the text.
This is his website: artxigu.jimdo.com/
Like this:



As you can see in this, there are a lot of small black lines behind the text forming a kind of checkers effect. I think it has something to do with drop shadow. I did try the halftone effect but that produces circles not checkers.

You can see that effect in this too:



It will be a big help if you can teach me how to do this since writing the text is my weakest part.

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