#dottedlozenge

All seven of your 3-word submissions, as they will appear in the Oriental Surrealism book. Book is almost ready too! Just sending the illustrations to the legendary printer that has made my zero deforestation artwork dream a reality, and I should have a proof copy in a week. 48 pages she is. 48 pages of the best illustrations from the last 7 years of me illustrating illustrations. -- I'll open pre-orders tomorrow so until then you can still sign up to the mailing list for a $5 discount on the pre-order price. Go to my website or webstore to sign up for that. -- Thanks again to the following people who randomly submitted their 3-words that will end up in print, on the pages of the Oriental Surrealism art book. @roslynhowseartist @janamare @horseys @priyazel @lebaronr @costantinogardens -- -- #OrientalSurrealism #ukiyoe #artbook #penandink #illustration #illustrator #linework #fineart #inkwork #art #designprinciples #crosshatching #dottedlozenge #surrealism https://www.instagram.com/p/BvQtbsXnPdZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cghclnv5fksx

I've never had butterflies before showing you my artwork...until now. It's coming soon. It is the most important ethical issue concerning modern society today...in the form of an illustration. Watch out, it's as depressing as the notion of hell itself, which is why I drew it. -- #OrientalSurrealism #illustration #woodcut #etching #penandink #dottedlozenge #diamonddots #penandink #blacklines #fineart #albrechtdürer #dürer #goltzius #linework #sketchbook https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlBW9xnnfc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o70y3j380jri

I’ve mentioned before, that I—once upon a time, thought I’d invented an illustration technique that dates back 450 years. -- It’s an engraving technique that renders shape and shadow by creating lines of varying thickness, cross hatching them and then dotting the blank areas in the cross hatch to create extra depth. -- Dotted lozenge—I’m obsessed with the technique and have been trying to master it with a pen ever since I started, before I even knew it had a name. This illustration of a red deer comes close to the best example I have of this technique. — The story goes, a 16th century draftsman called Hendrik Goltzius developed a style late in his life and evolved a technique of shading that was directly influenced by other master engravers that came before him. Albrecht Dürer's line and dot technique had lines and dots but no dots in-between the lines. Giulio Campagnola was the inventor of dot shading, but rarely shaded with lines. Master E. S. was all about straight line crosshatching, no dots, and his lines were rarely curved. Martin Schongauer (c.1448–1491) was the first to contour straight lines, but they were mostly uniformed thickness. Then Jacques Callot (c.1592–1635) created lines of varying thicknesses, no dots though. -- There are only a few artists who practised this technique, there’s Goltzius and sometimes Sadeler. But that’s it! If you know of any others I’d kill to know! — #dottedlozenge #dotandlozenge #pointillism #dotshading #dotwork #linework #masterengraver #hendrikgoltzius #sadeler #albrechtdürer #durer #illustrator #illustration #technique #blacklines #penandink https://www.instagram.com/p/CAkCRJaDqhP/?igshid=1sd5v5no1mchr

Have you ever drawn yourself? It's weird man. Really weird. A little too much vanity involved in it for me. Here I am trying to get every line nice & neat on my own face when every line on my face is actually not so nice & neat. If you think of anxiety as a result of too much self-resonance, or an oscillation of thoughts, and you couple that with an artistic process that is essentialy self-referential, then this exercise of illustrating a self portrait was just a little too much to handle for me. Looks like I'll be going back to drawing birds real soon! -- What's your experience with self-portraits? -- #selfportrait #portrait #dottedlozenge #penandink #illustration #drawing #linework #artwork #crosshatching #art https://www.instagram.com/p/Bux7fPfn4Sn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dpmk4bqe5z35

Last night I inadvertently gave away one of my biggest artistic secrets by showing you a shading technique that I once thought I invented. Ha! -- 5 years ago I thought I invented a new technique of rendering by creating lines of varying thickness, cross hatching them and then dotting the blank areas in the cross hatch to create depth. -- At the time I called it "diamond dots" and it was a combination of three existing techniques: pointillism, line shading and crosshatching. Turns out i was about 450 years too late though. -- A 16th century engraver called Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1617) had developed this style late in his life and evolved a technique of shading that was directly influenced by other master engravers that came before him. Albrecht Dürer's (1471–1528) line and dot technique had lines and dots but no dots in-between the lines. Giulio Campagnola (c.1482–after 1515) was the inventor of dot shading, but rarely shaded with lines. Master E. S. (active c. 1450–67) was all about straight line crosshatching, no dots, and his lines were rarely curved. Martin Schongauer (c.1448–1491) was the first to contour straight lines, but they were mostly uniformed thickness. Then Jacques Callot (c.1592–1635) created lines of varying thicknesses, no dots though. -- The combination of all of those techniques were celebrated by Hendrik Goltzius and he developed what's now called the "dotted lozenge" technique. I wonder how he celebrated the finding and whether or not he had a one-man mosh pit in his studio listening to Swedish death metal gods @darktranquillityofficial, like I did. I guess we'll never know. 🤷 -- #dottedlozenge #dotandlozenge #pointillism #dotshading #dotwork #linework #masterengraver #hendrikgoltzius #albrechtdürer #durer #illustrator #illustration #blacklines #penandink https://www.instagram.com/p/BtR_pxjnagN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dssuajm2ksci