Hedcut = a newsroom abbreviation for "headline cut" is a hand drawn, uniquely stylized pen and ink illustration as seen only in The Wall Street Journal.
I am a senior staff illustrator at the paper, creating authentic hedcut portraits and other pen and ink illustrations. This blog is an addition to my illustration website (www.nolinovak.com)
Hedcuts in color
A brand new section in the Wall Street Journal called Greater New York, launched a new era for hedcuts: color! Prefer the b&w version? Not to worry. They continue to appear in the rest of the paper. So, how about them apples?!
Colors can take a while since the options are limitless, but the b&w part actually goes quicker since I don't make it very dense. Too dense and the colors get muddy or don't show at all.
2 comments:
nice...how much longer do they take to draw?
Colors can take a while since the options are limitless, but the b&w part actually goes quicker since I don't make it very dense. Too dense and the colors get muddy or don't show at all.
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