What type of drawing is used on the portrait of Washington found on the dollar bill?

There is a similar type of drawing that I am also interested in that seems like a bigger modern version of this, the lines tend to come to bold triangular black points. I can’t figure out what you call that either.

Engraving. The image is cut into a printing plate.

”...the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper ”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

Fine Line/Engraving.

Those triangular points you see at the ends of lines are the same thing you see in, say, decorative grooves in a piece of wood furniture or a stone sculpture. They’re one way to finish off the end of the line when the line is actually cut into a piece of metal.

“Any suggestions on where one can learn to draw this way?”

Take a class in blueprints, at least if you are interested in that aspect of it. We did some of this is a class I took on construction inspection- although it focused more on what the symbols meant than how to draw them.

I just remembered something from decades back. We had a linoleum block printing kit when I was a kid. That could be a cheap and easy way to start. I see kits on Amazon for less than $20 US, with tools for carving images into the rubbery blocks.

http://snipandsnail.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-first-linoleum-block-print.html

@Jeruba it is a much different style of art that has the tiger like stripes that give evrrything shading

Are the old woodblock engravings used in 19th century newspapers?
Or, for that matter, the small illustrations in the Wall Street Journal [usually one at the bottom center of the page where the “silly” article is, or writer portraits. I have always wondered if these are drawn in pen or engraved.

It is a copperplate etching. The image is etched (in reverse) into the metal using various hand tools. The deeper the incision, the darker the line. When finished, the plate is inked and pressed into paper.

The original printed etching were then reproduced photographically (now digitally) for the production of dollar bills.

You can’t get too many prints out of a plate of copper as the metal is soft and repeated pressings flatten and dull the grooved etching thus making the reproduced image more “out of focus” with repeated pressings.

Lino-cut and wood block printing is similar but the different materials yield different results.

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