105mm x 210mm

White ink on black card

"And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?"

~William Blake

I know it's not furry, shoot me.

I have been practicing with a bottle of white ink and a mapping pen for while now, and I think I may have discovered the most time-consuming way to draw known to man. This tiny piece to about two solid days to complete!

I watered the ink down to a homeopathic strength, so it was barely visible and drew it all once. Then I mixed another batch of slightly stronger ink, and drew it again. And again, and again, and again, and again, each time with stronger ink, until I was using ink straight from the bottle.

This hatching technique takes ages as it is, so doing the same complex image over and over again seriously sapped my will to live. I like the result, but I need to find a faster way to get it.