~My Bottle...Using Stipplling~

This again was one of my favorite projects to do. I did this one my first semester in High School and it is such a tedious thing, our professor didn't make us do it so I really had no clue what I was doing at the time. I know more about it now. I still just love the way it turned out. The process is called "Stippling" and can be called several other things as well. The whole picture is made out of tiny close together dots (some closer together than others to get the different shades). Above: The above drawing was done on an 15"x24" piece of paper and literally took all semester long and one single marker to complete (if you can believe that.) My mom used to have a very dark green bottle that had grapes wrapped around it. I put the bottle in front of a window and the light variations were amazing. So, I first drew out all the different variations with pencil and then used 3 main shades that I wrote in with pencil. When I was finished with all the dots, I tried to do some blending so it didn't look so blotchy.

Above: This is just a close up of the piece of the bottle, and the grape vine going around it. You can really see all the dots here.