Ink Illustrations
Two collections of hand-drawn ink work, brought together. The first is a set of anatomical studies — heart, eye, brain, lungs — built from stippled dots, with single passages picked out in copper. The second turns the same technique on circular and triangular compositions, alongside a hare and a run of hand-lettering. All of it started as pen on paper.
Dots, not lines
Most of this is pointillism — small, distinct dots applied in patterns until the shape reads as tone rather than outline. It is slow, unforgiving work: there is no way to lighten a passage once the dots are down, so the density has to be right the first time.
The anatomical set came first, drawn at a scale where the stipple resolves into tissue up close and into shading from across a room. The abstract pieces apply the same discipline to pure form.
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Finishing
- Adobe Photoshop
- Client
- Personal work, with one commission
