A shading technique that builds up tone and texture using many small dots — the denser the dots, the darker the area appears.
Synonyms
- stippling
Related terms
In plain words
- shading made of lots of little dots
- a dotted-texture drawing
Usage example
The newspaper's hand-drawn portraits use fine stipple to model the shadows on a face.
Don't confuse with…
- halftoneHalftone dots are a regular, machine-made grid of varying sizes; stippling is hand-placed dots of roughly equal size.
Categories
- Imagery & illustration