'Tattooists, ink-based illustrators... hmmm who else could I include within this upcoming
ink-based issue?’ I thought. ‘What about a pointillist artist? They often use ink pens to create their works and you seldom see these fantastic creatives in magazines,’I concluded. So, opening up my laptop, I got to work. Typing away on various platforms, I suddenly came across a drawing of a tiger cub. Although I must say this did leave me feeling slightly confused.
‘Why is Google showing me this image?’ I contemplated. After all, pointillist artists create imagery by using the point of a pen or pencil to dot clusters of individual spots on a canvas. James Everly and Brian Prouton, for instance, who both appeared in the very first issue of the magazine, drew marvellous pointillist pieces in their own signature styles. So where were the dots in this piece? It seemed to me that I was simply observing an incredibly well detailed work of portraiture. Except, I suddenly realised, it was indeed a brilliant portrait, but made entirely of hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny dots.
So excellent I found this artwork that I struggled to conceive that this had been created by a person. It was as if these dots were alive and had all contrived to come together to depict a tiger cub, like how bees in those old cartoons used to gather in large groups to create the illusion that you were looking at a large animal or object.
Whoever had drawn this was clearly a talented artist, but I was also in for another shock. Clicking on the link which led me to their website, I soon realised that I was viewing someone who not only possessed a great deal of artistic flair, but who was highly skilled in a variety of other fields too.