Its ALL DOTS!
Stippling, or dotwork, is one of those art techniques I absolutely love. After I get started, that is. I like to throw a little stippling into many of my pen and in drawings just for texture, but it can be a little bit daunting to plan and begin a full stippling piece. Mostly because the bigger the drawing, the better it looks. Only that means a LOT of dots! (The more dots, the more realistic it looks.) This hen was done on 9x12 Bristol, and took a total of three 005 pens to complete. Some people keep track of how many actual dots there are in their drawings, but I have no clue. Once I get started, I like to just go, and tracking all the dots would be kind of slow and boring. So I will just estimate that there are about a "gazillion" dots in here. Haha. (You can see another stippling piece I did here: "Sasquash, Inktober Drawing" ) This very dotty hen took about three months to complete, but I was working on a few other drawings (for art contest entries) at the same time and was switching off. If you scroll down, you can see the WIP progress photos I took as I worked, and the full finished piece at the bottom:
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