Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

looks like a colored guy to me......

The mugger was wearing blackface?

Looks like they're using a Circa 1985 Mac. I remember a few police dept bought those with a 'clip art' package of different facial features.

It's called stippling. But by looking at the text, I think the original drawing was shrunk down quite a bit.

Or the person scanning the drawing was using the 'fail' setting.

If you zoom in enough, you will see that it's actually 7650 panels of Barry Bonds porking a little French girl

Good one Strangeguitar. Made me smile.

The only thing I retained from Art class...

plmyfngr: ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

looks like a colored guy to me......

he gave you a nice slow pitch right across the plate, and you hit it out of the park

+1 for you, sir

What's the Wall St. Journal going to do now that their portrait artist has been hired away?

/I don't know what you'd actually call a "portrait artist"

FTFA: "The man took her purse and got into a white car."

Cue the "That's racist!" GIF.

optikeye: Looks like they're using a Circa 1985 Mac. I remember a few police dept bought those with a 'clip art' package of different facial features.

Is tweed a facial feature?

plmyfngr: ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

looks like a colored guy to me......

Oh god, the soda, it burns going through the nose.

/keyboard

StoneColdAtheist: FTFA: "The man took her purse and got into a white car."

Cue the "That's racist!" GIF.

silver-colored handgun?

/obligatory

It's been printed and scanned again. The scan was inexpertly done, and left a moiré pattern. The jpeg artifacts didn't help matters.

/know this because of the pixels and having seen a few shops in my time.

StoneColdAtheist: FTFA: "The man took her purse and got into a white car."

Cue the "That's racist!" GIF.

ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

No, it uses colors.

If you look at the enlargement, it appears that the portrait was drawn on a tweed jacket.

apeiron242: ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

No, it uses colors.

That's pretty utilitarian.

ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

I do think that the core of Pointillism is the appearance of multiple blended colors from tiny dots of primary colors. I think that when an artist uses monochromatic dots in ink like this, the correct term is "stippling."

plmyfngr: ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

looks like a colored guy to me......

You're an ass. I LOL'd.

Thank you, Stranger on the Town. Is there nothing Fark cannot do?

looks like a bad scan to me

Obnox: It's been printed and scanned again. The scan was inexpertly done, and left a moiré pattern.

This.
What your seeing is image degradation, not pointillism.
That said, pointillism/stippling is an excellent, fast drawing technique in the right hands.

_{/the right hands
//actually left-handed}

Procedural Texture: Obnox: It's been printed and scanned again. The scan was inexpertly done, and left a moiré pattern.

This.
What your seeing is image degradation, not pointillism.
That said, pointillism/stippling is an excellent, fast drawing technique in the right hands.

/the right hands
//actually left-handed

This is definitely shopped.

strangeguitar, exactly what I came here for.

What's the point?

A stranger in the Alps: /obligatory

He stole me Lucky Charms!

Good headline and thread so far, everyone! Made me LOL several times. Too bad this was on a Sunday so the thread won't go very far. Sigh...

Desmo: What's the point?

Who knows? I mean, cops and the FBI still use polygraph tests, too. Might as well just use a psychic. Oh wait, some do. Scary.

Desmo: What's the point?

*snurk*

I think they printed it on a dot-matrix printer.

A stranger in the Alps: /obligatory

Who else seen the leprechaun say YEAH?!

Police sketches are really useless sometimes. That guy looks like about 50 people I know.

Isn't there some kind of 3D face-generating program that police stations could use in lieu of black and white sketches?

Unimpressed.

E Arkhe:Police sketches are really useless sometimes. That guy looks like about 50 people I know.

Or are they? I have a few people I wouldn't mind getting off the street...can we blur that image?

plmyfngr: ndotseth: Isn't Pointillism supposed to utilize colors?

looks like a colored guy to me......

well played.

It took me a second to regain my composure after that.

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Obnox: It's been printed and scanned again. The scan was inexpertly done, and left a moiré pattern.

SO this. As sketch artist, I'm getting a really big kick...I've had plenty detectives fark up my work like that when I was naive enough to let them...

E Arkhe: Police sketches are really useless sometimes. That guy looks like about 50 people I know.

They aren't useless. The point is that they are a sketch as opposed to a portrait. They are meant to be vague images of a suspect. The purpose is to be able to weed out characteristics as opposed to tell you, "THIS is what he/she looks like." It just serves as one of many leads.

/Sketch snob

Que seurat seurat

Looks like it was done in vine charcoal on bienfang canvas paper -- Which was placed over a texture plate of some kind. No scanner could do that badly, no matter how inexpertly handled.

looks like al jolson to me