High Contrast Stipple Portrait
Illustration · Stipple · High Contrast
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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A portrait made only of fine white stipple dots on solid black, where dot density alone builds the face: dense clustering where light falls, completely empty black in the shadows, no outline or line work anywhere. Half the head lost entirely into the background, features implied rather than drawn. Extremely high contrast, no grey mid tones, no colour.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1280 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1No outline at all. Density is the only tool.
- 2Let half the head disappear. Completeness ruins it.
- 3No grey. Dots or nothing.
Things to try
Inverted
black stipple on white
Toned
sepia dots instead of white
Animal
a creature in the same technique
Coarser
a much larger dot
Two tone
one colour dot added
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