Description

Perfect for placing your photo subject inside a vintage natural history encyclopedia. The top half shows the original photo; the bottom half transforms the subject into a recognizable side specimen pose, rendered entirely with near-black ink dots. The shaded areas are dense enough to nearly merge, while lit areas are left blank without a single continuous solid line. The dots are nearly uniform in size with a handcrafted uneven arrangement, and the subject is placed diagonally across a lightened background derived from the photo, with no color other than black ink. The text follows encyclopedia entries: a small code and common names in two languages in the upper left, and a line of italicized serif Latin-style scientific names at the bottom, hiding a touch of humor within seriousness. Avoid photos that rely on color or frontal expressions to be recognizable, whole streets, multi-person scenes, as well as color realism, gray washes, line drawing outlines, and neat halftone dots.