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Pointillism So I recently met this new user, @Terilastovicka who is a friend of a user here that I like talking to and I saw that she worked on pointillism style a lot on some of her artworks. It was so rare to see, specially in here. And I honestly have so much respect for people who use this kind of style because of the extreme amounts of patience needed to finish a piece made entirely out of dots or points. Not a lot of artists really do make use of this technique unless they use it as a shading technique or for added details and such. But to make use of it entirely for a piece is definitely not something a lot of artists would be up for nor have the patience for, I mean, even with the simplest blending technique on oils and acrylics, it would still take some people days just to finish a piece, what more if they used dots, right? Can you even imagine? So just a brief history on this. The technique first came into use by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac way back in the 1880s. Though many other artists used this, like Van Gogh (she loves this artist a lot) and Picasso but they only did so at the start of their careers and their art styles changed to impressionism, I think? At some point in their careers until their passing. They used to do this with pure color, unmixed paints and they just make distinct dots. The finer the dots, the smoother the blending seemed to look despite not actually blending the paint together. But the dot size could always vary. Some actually made use of large dots, probably made by a large tipped brush whilst most made use of smaller dots. It's also worth mentioning that this was where printing technology was based off.

As you can see here, your prints come out as just small dots under the microscope because your toner actually just sprays ink as mists that will eventually come out as microscopic dots on the paper. It actually gives better details on the art too compared to the other techniques and can come off as one of the most realistic kinds of styles there is but honestly, I mostly use this style only to test out a new medium I've acquired and mostly it's ink, pastels, watercolor and crayons as I'll be showing below

This is ones of my very first attempts. Took me an entire day to make because of the size of the paper and because I wanted to get as much detail as I could on my imaginary fruits hut as you can see, eventually I gave up and ended up making squiggles that complimented the glowing fruits

Later on I got faster nad improved on the details and tried applying it to a person. He was on the school band and I don't know why but he pkays the saddest songs on the trumpet when he practices alone. I always thought he would fade away one day if he kept playing sad songs like that such as leibisleid. I think that was his favorite

Ode to potatoes for potatoes hold so much wonders and deliciousness but it's also a piece I never got to finish because I honestly lack the patience and also because I didn't have brown inks before

This was when I attempted a Tim Burton kind of style because honestly, I love his drawing style so much but I also didn't get to finish this because the ink on my orange pen ran out and I kept forgetting to buy a replacement that would match the original ink color

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before but this was made by pastels. I made it when I first got the sticks. It was a means to test out the color and the blending capabilities of that pastel set and I was satisfied that the colors came out easy to blend, really. That's all from me. I hope you guys enjoyed knowing the truth about printers and in seeing my work. There goes my first attempt in incorporating science into art UwU I hope you found this interesting

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