hedcuts

courstesy of work making me skim through the newest issue of the smithsonian magazine this morning, picturing business in america, or hedcuts in the wall street journal. my dad used to get this paper and i always wondered if they used a computer program to create their front page headshots every morning. however, here's the real way it's done.

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[Freelance Photographer]

Here is the site from one of the Wall Street Journal hedcut portrait artists: Stipple Portaits

[urban bank]

here's a video of an interview that shows the full tracing process:

http://www.newmorningtv.tv/todaysshow_030507.jsp