(つ◔౪◔)つ━☆゚.*・。゚ The 2023 TKSST Gift Guide ✩°。⋆・゚  
Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

3.2 million dots: Stipple drawing by Miguel Endara

Watch more with these video collections:

You may need to explain what a xerox machine is and why the man’s face is so smushed, but after that… sit back and enjoy watching this stipple drawing, or more specifically an edit of 3.2 million dots being stippled with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen (nib size 005, 0.20 mm) over the course of 210 hours. And it all starts with just a few dots.

6 dots
In 2011, artist Miquel Endara filmed the creation of this stipple drawing, what Colossal describes as “a goofy portrait of his father’s photocopied face.” The piece is called Hero. Endara writes:

“The total number of dots was determined by multiplying the average stippling speed of this piece, 4.25 dots per second, by the amount of time logged in, 210 hours. That translated into 3,213,000. Because I think that number might be off just a few thousand dots or so, I rounded it off to an even 3.2 million.”

stipple drawing
almost complete
Watch these related dot and portrait videos next on TKSST:
Algorithmically generated CMYK line portraits
Facial Recognition (1978) by Al Jarnow
How did Yayoi Kusama become an artist?
• Hum Chitra Banate Hai (We Make Images), an animation made with Bhil traditional art
Relighting “Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)” by Georges Seurat
• Illustrating a photorealistic portrait, a time-lapse

🌈 Watch these videos next...

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors

Rion Nakaya

The precision and serendipity of Ebru (paper marbling)

Rion Nakaya

Spots Spots by Yuanyuan Hu

Rion Nakaya

Relighting “Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)” by Georges Seurat

Rion Nakaya

Pass the Ball, a collaborative animation by 40 animators around the globe

Rion Nakaya

Hum Chitra Banate Hai (We Make Images), an animation made with Bhil traditional art

Rion Nakaya

How did Yayoi Kusama become an artist?

Rion Nakaya

Disintegrating Flipbook by Andymation

Rion Nakaya

Can you see all 12 of these dots at once?

Rion Nakaya