This Pair Of Artists Created The Ultimate, Detailed Homage To Dedication

In a project showing some serious dedication, graphic designer Rémy Boiré and artist Xavier Casalta teamed up to create a single illustration. That might not sound like much, but the whole thing was created using pointillism, the practice of creating lines, shapes, and shadows with nothing but dots (it’s also known as stippling). The result, from a distance, looks like a smoothly shaded drawing, but it’s entirely made of black ink dots and lines on white paper. Casalta has worked with pointillism for over a year, perfecting the spacing of the dots to create the illusion of a solid tone. He estimates that he can lay down four to eight dots per second.

Boiré and Casalta met up several times over the course of a few months. They clocked some 300 hours of work on the single piece. The illustration measures 22 by 30 inches. The plaque in the center was entirely created from dots. The branches and decorative elements surrounding it are linework, which is still pretty impressive.

The words on the illustration, “Patience & Discipline,” reflect, of course, the hours of dedication, cramped fingers, and concentration that went into creating this piece. As Casalta explains, “Through this collaboration, we wanted to express the importance of careful planning and craftsmanship. But ultimately, we wanted to show that anything was possible with hard work, time, and commitment.”

You can buy prints of the piece at their Behance page, and you can also check out Boiré’s and Casalta’s online shops.

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