What are those drawings called where the whole thing is a bunch of little dots?

Question

One of my friends is in a drawing class and they learned how to make a drawing completely out these little inked-in dots. What exactly is this called, and where can I look up tips for learning how to do it online? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

it's stippling, try this website, http://www.gardenandhearth.com/SketchingandDrawing/Stippling.htm, it's not the greatest site but it was the best I could find as far as a tutorial. Here is another link for example of stippling, http://www.blakeovard.com/stippling.html.

Pointillism is correct sort of but pointillism refers to painting technically so it wouldn't be right for your question about a drawing technique. Though they are correct in saying that Georges Seurat did start this trend because he wanted to portray colors more like that eye sees them, so he painted little dots of colors (complementary) beside one another to create the illusion of mixing color the way our eyes do. This all started for Seurat because he used to draw with charcoal and conte crayon on very rough paper, this created a dot like effect that I would assume he liked because he took that idea and it developed into pointillism. Stippling was probably derived from that by someone who broke apart what Seurat did. To look up more about Seurat go to this site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat. He is very interesting and died pretty young so we didn't even begin to see what more he could have done with art.

Hope this has helped you!! Good luck! It's very time consuming but fun!

Answer 2

Pointilism is an image built up of daubs of paint of simple, bright colors. No attempt is made to smooth or blend the colors together. The illusion of depth and realism is created by the brain of the viewer, which "fills in" the gradual shading and blending that it expects to see.

For examples of Pointilism, do an image search for Seurat. His works are excellent examples of this form.

Stippling works in a similar fashion, creating the illusion of three dimensional depth by a variation in the density of the tiny dots of ink. In this way, stippling is not much different than using crosshatching to indicate shading in a pen and ink drawing.

For examples of stippling, you can check out:

http://members.aol.com/VSM66

In the Commercial Illustration section, check out the "Cat" and the "Fish." In the Fantasy and Science Fiction, look at "B Troop."

Answer 3

Well, for painting it is called pointalism, but your freind is drawing, so in that case it is called stippiling. It is very easy to do, but at the same time exceedingly difficult and tedious if you are doing it to a large area. You pretty much just use more dots in areas of shadow and less dots in light areas.

Answer 4

Stip.ple to paint, draw, engrave, or apply in small points or dots rather than lines or solid areas 2. to cover or mark with dots; a ) the art or method of painting, drawing, or engraving in dots This guy below is great. Randy Glass.

http://www.randyglassstudio.com/layout_portrait.html

Answer 5

Yes...bronzey2 is correct. It's pointellism
A technique of painting in which a lot of tiny dots are combined to form a picture. From the webstie bronzey points you to---The reason for doing pointillism instead of a picture with physical mixing is that, supposedly, physically mixing colors dulls them. The artist? Seurat ...

Answer 6

Seurat was the (French I think) artist who started this concept. I don't think they have a name except they're sometimes called 'paintings in Seurat's style'

Answer 7

It's called stippling darlin. It can be very beautiful if you have the patience for it.

Answer 8

It's pointillism and it's really hard to do and requires great patience, but here is a site to help you!

Answer 9

It is called Conect the dots.

Answer 10

I've heard 'em referred to as "pointillism" and "newsprint".