Designing a custom crosshatch pattern

…In this movie we're going to create this white hatch pattern…that I'm using to symbolically represent my thinning and graying hair.…And this is fairly labor intensive, as you're about to see.…But it can yield some great results.…So, I'll go ahead and switch over to my document of progress.…And we are going to start of with that hatching…dense pattern that I loaded in the previous movie.…So, just go ahead and press Ctrl+Shift+A or Cmd+Shift…a on the Mac to make sure nothing inside your…artwork is selected and then click on Hatching Dense…if you are working along with me to select it.…

And then click on the little new Swatch icon at the…bottom of the Swatches panel to make a copy of it.…And I'll call this one white hatches like so and the I'll click OK.…And now I'll double-click on it in order to…enter the paths Editing mode which we see here.…Now this is a great pattern but it's too loose.…I need some additional hatches.…And it's also built kind of strangely.…So to get a sense of what I'm talking about, I'll press…