What Is Stipple?
A Short introduction to Stipple ...
A Short introduction to Stipple ...
Stipple / A Close Up Of Pope John Paul II
stip·ple (stpl)tr.v. stip·pled, stip·pling, stip·ples1. To draw, engrave, or paint in dots or short strokes.2. To apply (paint, for example) in dots or short strokes.3. To dot, fleck, or speckle: “They crossed a field stippled with purple weeds” (Flannery O’Connor).n.1. A method of drawing, engraving, or painting using dots or short strokes.
Stipple is the making of a pattern simulating different degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a stipple pattern may occur in nature and this is frequently emulated by artists.
In a drawing or painting, the dots are made of pigment of a single colour and applied with a pen or brush; the denser the dots, the darker the apparent shade—or lighter, if the ink is lighter than the surface. Stipple is alike—but different from—pointillism, which uses dots of many colours to simulate blended colours. In printmaking, dots may be etched out of a surface to which ink will be applied, to produce either more or less density of ink depending on the technique, much like stipple. In engraving, this style was invented by Giulio Campagnola in around 1510. Stippling may also be used in engraving or sculpting an object even when there is no ink or paint involved, either to change the texture of the object, or to produce the appearance of light or dark shading depending on the reflective properties of the surface: for example, stipple engraving on glass produces areas that appear brighter than the surrounding glass. Stipple became popular as a means of producing shaded line art illustrations for publication, because drawings created this way could be reproduced in simple black ink. The other common method is hatching, which uses lines instead of dots. Stipple has traditionally been favoured over hatching in biological and medical illustration, since it is less likely than hatching to interfere visually with the structures being illustrated (the lines used in hatching can be mistaken for actual contours), and also since it allows the artist to vary the density of shading more subtly to depict curved or irregular surfaces.
The stipple work of Todd Claydon viewed above and below to serve as an example os shading technique. When viewed closely you can observe the differing patterns of dot creating shade and contrast throughout this portrait. This particular portrait was 5 months of full time work in the making, no mistakes can be made and attention is given to each and every hand applied dot to form this image.
Looking at the stipple detail you can see how just a very few misplaced dots could easily create a shadow or mark that does not belong. This particular styling of stipple is done with a tech pen using black ink on an illustration board.
