Pen Engraving Study
Illustration · Engraving · Pen
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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An old master pen and ink study of a young person's head turned three quarters and looking down, drawn entirely in cross hatching that follows the form of whatever it describes. Dense hatching in the shadows opening to bare paper in the light, no wash and no solid black. The drawing fades out at the shoulders and the edges are left unfinished. Warm aged paper, fine brown ink, a faint plate mark at the border.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1024 x 1216
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Hatching that follows the form, not straight parallel lines across everything.
- 2Unfinished edges make it a study rather than an illustration.
- 3No wash and no solid black. Line density does all the work.
Things to try
Hands
two studies of the same hand in different positions
Drapery
folded cloth described entirely in hatching
Full sheet
three small studies arranged on one page
Red chalk
the same drawing in sanguine instead of ink
Heavily worked
much denser hatching with almost no bare paper
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