A Wall Street Journal Hedcut

This week was my final week at The Wall Street Journal. I was totally surprised and honoured to receive a framed hedcut illustration in the style famously used by The Wall Street Journal.

Each drawing takes between three and five hours to produce. A photograph is converted to grayscale and the contrast adjusted in Photoshop. The altered photograph is printed out, placed on a light table, and overlaid with tracing vellum. The illustrators then trace directly over this image with ink pens, recreating the source photo using specific dot and line patterns. The final tracing is then scanned back into Photoshop where it can be adjusted and prepared for print. The artist who produced this image is Noli Novak.