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| Image borrowed from Society of Pen and Ink Artists |
As a youth Franklin Booth learned his highly
detailed pen and ink drawing style by copying the illustrations in books and
magazines of the time.
These illustrations were actually
wood engraved prints created from the artists' original drawings.
Notice how the tonal values are created
by the fluctuation of the white space created by the varying thickness of the parallel
inked lines.
In the woodcut which Franklin was
emulating, these white areas would be incised, leaving the raised area to receive
the ink.
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