Bulino Engraving Close-ups defined - Page 2 Engraving's by Adone T. Pozzobon EngravingArts The Cape Buffalo engraving is approx. 1" tall and is dramatic in its black effect, deep wide dotting was used in many areas in order to produce a strong dominant feel. The heavier dotting was mostly used for texture appeal more than for achieving black levels. Black may be achieved by moderate depth in dotting as well as with deep dotting, however in order to achieve a smooth tone transition into gray's deep dotting is avoided and medium dotting closely packed has proven to produce best levels of graduations in gray tones using my current technique. Click to view .470 Double Gun The Elephant engraving is approx. 1 1/4" tall when in full view and is comprised of hundreds of thousands of dots as there are many graduations in the gray's, some are so subtle the human eye cannot separate them as individual tones but the eye does detect the extra effort in the overall image, in other words were I to remove the unseen individual mid tone gray's, visibly it would be apparent that some dimension was lost in the engraving and though it would be virtually impossible to pin point just where and what is lacking it would be evident that something was missing in a side by side comparison. Click to view .600 Double Gun The Tree engraving is approx. 1/2" or less. Pay particular attention to how the light plays on each branch and its attached foliage. Casting correct shadows is what defines much of its realism. What may appear as a simple engraving as compared to the elephants... was in fact a arduous task, one which I found to be frustrating and time consuming though satisfying when finally complete. The difficulty was in establishing sufficient gray levels within the tiny widths of each branch. Realistically I needed to produce less gray levels due to allotted space while still creating the illusion in depth dimension and realism as with the balance of this scene. Great attention was dedicated in portraying branches in the foreground and separating them from the background branches, this was one of the ways in which I was able to produce dimension while lacking available space in each branch for more than two or three gray tones at best. Some of these branches were as narrow as 1/64" and others approx. 1/32" The largest branches were no more than 1/16" wide. Click to view .600 Double Gun     Home | Site Index | Galleries | Artist Bio | Contact   All content Copyright © Adone T. Pozzobon / AdoneGalleries EngravingArts