24.1 Treatment 1: Engraving
After finishing the ink and watercolor layers, I went on to create a number of other treatments of the drawing—variations on the same basic theme. My goal was to demonstrate several characteristic treatments in one image, so I overlaid the rose with five randomly scattered squares and limited each treatment to its own square.
First comes an engraving-like rendition composed of lattices of curved variable-width pen strokes. For this treatment, I chose an area of the rose where the curving and shading of the petals was especially deep and prominent. Engraving is an intricate art; I do not claim that my simulation of it is any good—but I was surprised to find how easy it was to do using Inkscape’s tools.
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