I’ve mentioned before, that I—once upon a time, thought I’d invented an illustration technique that dates back 450 years. -- It’s an engraving technique that renders shape and shadow by creating lines of varying thickness, cross hatching them and then dotting the blank areas in the cross hatch to create extra depth. -- Dotted lozenge—I’m obsessed with the technique and have been trying to master it with a pen ever since I started, before I even knew it had a name. This illustration of a red deer comes close to the best example I have of this technique. — The story goes, a 16th century draftsman called Hendrik Goltzius developed a style late in his life and evolved a technique of shading that was directly influenced by other master engravers that came before him. Albrecht Dürer's line and dot technique had lines and dots but no dots in-between the lines. Giulio Campagnola was the inventor of dot shading, but rarely shaded with lines. Master E. S. was all about straight line crosshatching, no dots, and his lines were rarely curved. Martin Schongauer (c.1448–1491) was the first to contour straight lines, but they were mostly uniformed thickness. Then Jacques Callot (c.1592–1635) created lines of varying thicknesses, no dots though. -- There are only a few artists who practised this technique, there’s Goltzius and sometimes Sadeler. But that’s it! If you know of any others I’d kill to know! — #dottedlozenge #dotandlozenge #pointillism #dotshading #dotwork #linework #masterengraver #hendrikgoltzius #sadeler #albrechtdürer #durer #illustrator #illustration #technique #blacklines #penandink https://www.instagram.com/p/CAkCRJaDqhP/?igshid=1sd5v5no1mchr