Stipple Portrait (pencil shading plan & final)

So, what is stipple? Ah, all ye ignorant people, consider yourselves lucky... Hahaha, just kidding! Stipple is a handy shading technique where tonal ranges are expressed via innumerable little dots:














The results are quite lovely, but the challenge is that it requires a significant investment of time AND concentration for an entirely stipple picture to come out well. Interestingly enough, although the prof gave us the option of creating line drawings to then fill in with stipple, most of the folks in class went straight for the all-dots approach.

I am pleased with the end results of my stipple portrait (of "Colonel" Funkhouser by the River Kwai...) but I definitely had more fun creating the pencil shading plan for this assignment instead.