Digital "Engravings"

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto 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 as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings .

Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper in artistic printmaking , in mapmaking , and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines. It has long been replaced by various photographic processes in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it has been largely replaced by etching and other techniques.

But, in the digital age, it is quite possible to generate prints that, in every way look as though they were pulled from a plate (one could even simulate a "plate mark").

IMO, the most effective "digital engravings" originate from old photographs -- either color images converted to grayscale, or, of course, original black and white photos or negatives.

Here's one of my "digital engravings."

Got more if anyone's interested.