Coquille board, also known as stipple board, is a type of drawing paper with a pebbled texture. The grain is impressed into the uncoated paper during manufacture.[1] Used with a soft lithographic crayon or carbon pencil, coquille produces a shading effect similar to hand stippling in a fraction of the time.[2] The material is especially useful for works to be reproduced in print, such as scientific illustration and cartooning.[1][3][4] However, coquille is also delicate and cannot withstand vigorous pressure from an eraser.[2]
It was used extensively during the pulp era to quickly create easily-reproducible print images. By the early 1990's it had been displaced by cheaper halftoning technologies and became difficult to obtain.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Hodges, Elaine R. S. (2003). "Pencil on Coquille Board". The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 143–145. ISBN 978-0-471-36011-7.
- ^ a b Zweifel, Frances W. (1988). A handbook of biological illustration (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 50–52. ISBN 978-0-226-99698-1. OCLC 213299765.
- ^ Turner, Gerry A. (1951). Design Technics: A Handbook of Forty Art Procedures. Design Publishing Co. p. 10.
- ^ Phyllis Wood; Patrick McDonnell (1994). Scientific Illustration: A Guide to Biological, Zoological, and Medical Rendering Techniques, Design, Printing, and Display. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-471-28525-0.
- ^ "The Pages of Now & Forever - All About Star Control". Archived from the original on 2007-06-13.
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