Dotwork Documentation #1

My experiment with documentation derived from that Facebook video I shared a while back. While I didn’t add in the number of dots or anything fancy, I found it quite interesting to see my own stippling process at 300% of its normal speed. Reminds me a lot of the motion of tattoo guns. I know it’s not very HD (I draw at night) but I’ll probably try again soon and see if I can do something about the quality of the video.

Dotwork documentation video

Making by hero

One of my friends tagged me in this video featuring a dotwork illustration process. I was thinking that this could be a good idea for me to show how therapeutic dotwork is for me. It may also be a good time-based documentation log, so perhaps I could produce my own kind of process video as one of my final three outcomes in my project.

Dotwork is personally really important to me because I got into the style when I was in a very sad headspace. The process of dotting helped me overcome my sadness and negativity and has now become something that I really enjoy regardless of mood.