the.com/stipple
a million tiny dots conspiring to fake a smooth gray you never actually see
means To create shading, texture, or tone using countless small dots or short touches rather than continuous lines or washes.
from From the Dutch 'stippelen,' to dot or speckle, a frequentative of 'stippen,' to prick or spot — itself kin to 'stip,' a point or dot. It entered English in the late 17th century, riding in with Dutch engravers and printmakers whose dotted technique was the height of the craft.
- newspaper trick
- Old comics and papers built every shade from dots
- engraving roots
- Renaissance printmakers stippled flesh tones into copper plates
- brain fooled
- Your eyes blend separate dots into solid tone
- pointillism cousin
- Seurat painted whole scenes from deliberate colored specks
- makeup verb
- Dabbing concealer in dots blends better than swiping
pointillism — georges seurat's a sunday on la grande jatte (1886), painted entirely with dots of color
ben day process — printing technique used in 1950s-60s comic books and pop art, creating images from colored dots
stippled engravings — 18th-century printmaking method by artists like francesco bartolozzi using dots instead of lines