North American Bison (Part 2)

This North American Bison is completed in a black ink .20mm pen. The entire piece is done in a stippling technique of using all dots to create the illustration. 

The background took the longest to get right in this piece, using all dots, it simply takes a long time to get them all in there. But with it being now completed, the all stippling background really makes the Bison head pop into the foreground. 

Unlike a lot of my other illustrations, this piece was done in all black. In all my other works so far, I have tried to use colors. The great thing about colors is that the ink can almost blend together like paint, then showing the great definition of whatever your illustrating. With using all black ink, the one huge advantage is that I can use a much smaller pen to work with. There is not a 0.20mm sized pen in an assortment of colors out there, except for black. So with the black ink, I can show the small details of the Bisons head with the tiny dots. I think it came out really well!