 To Canemaker , McCay had an " absolute precision of line " akin to those of Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer and 19th @-@ century French illustrator Gustave Doré . McCay drew with Higgins black drawing ink , Gillott # 290 pens , art gum , a T @-@ square and angle , and an assortment of Venus lead pencils . In his early magazine cartoons McCay often painted in gouache . 
