Hedcut is a term referring to a style of drawing, associated with The Wall Street Journal. They use the stipple method of many small dots and the hatching method of small lines to create an image, and are designed to emulate the look of woodcuts from old-style newspapers, and engravings on certificates and currency. The phonetic spelling of “hed” may be based on newspapers’ use of the term hed for “headline.
Noli Novak is working at the Wall Street Journal, training new illustrators in the hedcut technique. Capturing the likeness of the subject is ultimately more important, which is best shown with celebrity portraits. Most of her portraits are done as spot illustration accompanying newspaper articles or as requested by her clients for various projects.