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21Draw, Sweden:
Ein Leitfaden für Zeichnungsstile in German). A Guide to Drawing Styles.

David Accurso, Kansas City:
What is Stippling Art?
10 Tips for Stippling Art.

S. Bober and T. Riehl (2024): Adding depth to line artwork by digital stippling—a step-by-step guide to the method. In PDF, Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 14. See also here.
"... Shading techniques, such as stippling—the application of dots to generate shade—are the methods of choice for simulating shade, structure, shape, and texture. In this paper, a step-by-step guide for digital stippling is presented ..."

Emily S. Damstra:
! Etymology and Stippling.

Designer in Action (Marco Rullkötter, Germany):
Stipple Shading Photoshop Brushes .

gathered :
Stippling art: a beginner’s step-by-step guide (by Matt Breen).

Lizzie Harper ( free-lance natural history and botanical illustrator):
Scientific Illustration: Pen and Ink Techniques.

X. Huang (2023): Patternshop: Editing Point Patterns by Image Manipulation. In PDF, ACM Trans. Graph., 42. See here as well.

S.Y. Kim (2009): Stippling by example. In PDF, Proc. NPAR, 41–50. See here as well.
"... we focus on stippling as an artistic style and discuss our technique for capturing and reproducing stipple features ..."

! D. Kim et al. (2008): Feature-Guided Image Stippling. Computer Graphics Forum, 27: 1209–1216. See likewise here.
"... This paper presents an automatic method for producing stipple renderings from photographs [...] For effective depiction of image features, we introduce a novel dot placement algorithm which adapts stipple dots to the local shapes ..."

! Isa Loureiro (2021): Scientific illustration with Stippling.

R. Maciejewski et al. (2007): Aesthetics of Hand-Drawn vs. Computer-Generated Stipplin. PDF file, in: D.W. Cunningham, G. Meyer, L. Neumann (Eds.): Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging.

! D. Martín et al. (2017): A survey of digital stippling. In PDF, Computers & Graphics, 67: 24-44. See likewise here.

D. Martín et al. (2015): Drawing characteristics for reproducing traditional hand-made stippling.
Proceedings of Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR, part of Expressive), ACM/Eurographics, Jun 2015, Goslar, Germany. pp.103-115

Pinterest:
Stippling drawing (by John Purser).
Punkt Zeichnung (in German).
biological illustration (by Aryanah Assar).
Stippling botanical art.

reddit:
How can I turn photos into this style with all the tiny dots?
Best way to achieve stipple effect?

Jona Schlegel, archaeoINK: The Art and Science of Stippling in Archaeological Illustrations.

E.J. Spagnuolo et al. (2024): Reconstructing the Botanical Past: Art and Paleobotany. Free access, Plant Science Bulletin, 70. See also here.
Note figure 1: Representative examples of plant paleoart throughout history and modern plant-centered paleoart.

M. Spicker et al. (2017): Quantifying visual abstraction quality for stipple drawings. PDF file:, in: Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering : NPAR '17 / Spencer, Stephen N. (Hrsg.). - New York, NY : ACM Press. Note also here.
"... We give guidance for the number of stipple points that is typically enough to represent an input image well ..."

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Category:Artistic techniques.
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! Technical and scientific illustration.
! Stippling.

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