Rabbi family stipple (hedcut) portraits.

 

Rabbi family stipple portraits.

One of my latest drawings is hedcut (stipple woodcut) portrait of respectable family members.

Engraved portrait of rabbi.

Here is rabbi stipple portrait I did last year.

Group hedcut portrait

My recent drawing of group hedcut portrait with line engraving and stipple, slightly geometrical background.

Cara Delevingne hedcut portrait

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This is a hedcut portrait of very beautiful charming cheerful model and actress Cara Delevingne. I have chosen unusually serious photo for the stipple drawing just because I love the color harmony there. As usual I tried to combine bold engraving with stipple pen and ink look.
P.S. Waiting for the Valerian movie impatiently.

New Year Lady Di stipple portrait

Here what I have done during short breaks between work and baby nursing, hedcut of Diana Princess of Wales.

Some words about hedcut technique.

This is one of my recently done hedcut for one web project. The number of stipple portraits drawn for this client is already over than 30 and I was very happy to work with them.

When you draw for the same client for years the most difficult thing is to keep the style which you have been using all that time for his portraits. Dot size and detailization level should still be almost the same. You draw portraits for another client with differents requirements and it may cause the changes in draw technique. What you have to do here is to keep an eye on previous hedcuts from this series while drawing the next one.

Finally you learn to switch easily but this is the dead end track. What you really need