Immatures have less black than all adult plumages, normally marked with a white chin and throat, a black malar stripe and a broad smudgy black breast-band.
To avoid getting a final product with a smudgy or lumpy look, it must be ensured that the amount of ink on the printing plate is not excessive.
Although it is a magnificent atlas, it has smudgy road maps.
Some figures and tables have been reduced so much that the lettering is almost unreadable or is smudgy, and the detail of line drawings is lost.
The smudgy and imprecise charcoal drawings were particularly effective in conveying the efforts of a hand (a hesitating one) struggling to fix certain patterns.
