Advertising art & ink portraits

In the early 1990s, I briefly wanted to be a commercial advertising artist, like one of my distant relatives. So I produced a series of “advertising art” images based on model and magazine photos (usually cigarette or fashion ads) using pointilism, but never submitted them anywhere. They were fun to draw, although that was a LOT of dots to make by hand. Using combinations of dots of different sizes and densities, I spent a lot of time trying to get the texture of clothing, skin, and hair just right. My later art evolved into greater use of contrast and areas of dense blacks with quicker
transitions.

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