I had been trying to practice a bit of advice from the Gurey Journey blog. That is, put your tones together in groups. It has been a great help to me... The application may be a bit different when using only black ink, but I tried to apply the idea here. This-the grouping of tones- was a trick practiced by the likes of Howard Pyle, and others on up throught the Art of Star Wars, The Force Awakens -just look at the cover, and compare it to some of N.C. Wyeth's illustrations. Wyeth, as a student of Pyle's, knew the technique well. My guess is that men like Winslow Homer, who cut his teeth on the illustration trade in the the days of single color etchings for the magazine trade, learned quickly the importance of the grouping of tones, as seems evident in some of his early drawing.
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