Hey, that's how I make a lot of my ink drawings! Most of the time I use a 3d
rendered model that I have build myself underneath it instead of a
photograph, but basically it is the same technique. I thought that this was
the normal way to do illustrations like this, especially when working with a
death line like newspaper illustrators are. I totally agree that you can't
just tipple if you don't know your anatomy. I can always tell when a drawing
is done like that without knowledge. 

Mieke

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Subject: [SCIART] fwd EXLIBRIS Wall Street Journal stipple hedcuts -- how
they make them--video

not natural science, but interesting.

Karen

>EXLIBRIS Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:23:41 -0500
>From: Christopher Handy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: WSJ hedcuts -- how they make them
>
>I guess I always supposed they were done mechanically, but the 
>process  actually involves the kind of painstaking manual labor that 
>you would  associate with the commercial wood-engravings that 
>hedcuts vaguely  mimic.
>
>http://online.wsj.com/video/how-wsj-stipple-drawings-are-made/91955BD8-9F31
-4E50-AEF1-26A61B3AA2FB.html
>
>Chris
>St. Louis, Mo.


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