Stippling to emulate pen and ink?

Hi, I am an archaeological illustrator and usually use traditional pen and ink techniques which often include a lot of stippling to show texture and shade on artefacts, example below. In Corel I can create a small dot and copy this using the pick tool and spacebar, is there a better way of doing this? Ideally using my Wacom pressure-sensitive pen and tablet to create stipples in a naturalistic way? Is there this functionality in later versions? Thanks!


  • I would create a variety of brushes you could have some with various effects and shades
    • Hi, thankyou, have tried to make a simple 'dot' brush stroke, but it doesn't like making a dot via a single mouse click. Ideally I would be able to single- click using a Wacom pen to create individual dots as part of the stippling, there are thousands on each drawing!
      • Are you wanting the final product to be 100% vector? If so, then you'll have to create your own Artistic Media/image sprayer dot (s). I have several that I use, but nothing on the scale of your sample drawing you posted. I use mine to indicate folds or creases in my quilt pattern illustrations.

        I have a one dot sprayer where the dot is only 0.018. It's more like a rounded off square, but that's the way I wanted it. Here's an example the larger 0.025 dot AM spraylist. Sample below shows it applied to a single line, a squiggly line and blob of lines. I usually just brush it as need, going over an area with squiggly lines to make it darker, crossing over areas not covered before. If I need to fill in areas or edges with some single dots I just make a short stroke and I get one dot. 

        I also made several straight edge type like this:

        So...it is possible. ;)
        Patti

        • One more example. I tried my vector stipple dot brushes on part of this Lady Liberty head. The bad news is that with so many AM strokes, it takes a bit of time for CD to render them every time I selected or deselected them as a group. I felt like CD was getting unstable...and just after I exported this PNG, it crashed on me. Maybe I need more RAM???

          Patti

          • Thanks Patti, love the idea of making a line composed of dots and then just scribbling them in, that could be a very good way of doing it. Will look into that further, thanks
            • Hey Patti, Can you tell exactly how you made your stippling brush, including a step by step, from start to finish, Please?

          • How about using "Stucki" of "Jarvis" in PhotoPaint? basically just a few clicks and you have this...

              

            • Thanks Mike, interesting method, with a bit of hand stipple that could work well. Unfortunately the drawings I do have to be orthogonal views so can't really be done from a photo due to distortion, but an interesting technique that could save time on flat objects with editing to bring out edges and other features
              • Hi. How did you do this, please? I'm new to this program. Thank you!