On: Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochr...

[jansan]

Slightly offtopic, but this is a greate opportunity to ask what I always wanted to know. Can anybody tell me how protraits like the one in the linked article below are made? I always loved this dithering style.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304418404579467...

Edit: I found that the style seems to be called "hedcut".

[sgerenser → jansan]

The traditional WSJ Hedcut portraits are drawn by hand, although they now have a ML tool that makes a reasonable facsimile: https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-in-a-hedcut-depends-how-i...