Ballpoint pen practice today. I use Bic 4 colour pens in a range of colours plus a SuckUK 3 colour pen for yellow.
Isobel
Tag: Bic
Taelor
I do love drawing portraits with ballpoint pens.
Ryo
I’ve been meaning to draw Ryo’s wonderful face for ages and I finally got around to it.
Tony
A quickish ballpoint pen portrait of Tony from the Museum by Sktchy app.
Molly
I really struggled with this portrait of Molly from the Museum by Sktchy app. I couldn’t get the hair to work and made a bit of a mess of it. Still, it’s all learning!
Apo
I’ve been hatching this portrait of Apo slowly while dealing with a migraine. I have chronic migraine and have headaches which last for several days, and hatching with a ballpoint is the only drawing that is manageable. So glad that this is still possible though.
I recommend ballpoint pen drawing to anyone who wants something meditative and creative to do – once you’ve drawn the outline all you need to do is hatch!
Brittany
I had a lot of fun adding the reflected greens and yellows to this portrait of Brittany. I experimented with adding Irotijen coloured pencils over the Bic hatching to soften it a little and I’m really happy with how it turned out.
Marcus
This is Marcus from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn with Bic 4 colour ballpoint pens.
Wendy
We drew Wendy, one of my favourite Sktchy muses, with ballpoint pens in my Spark Drawing Faces class yesterday .
Jodi
I started drawing portraits with ballpoint pens in 2020 and I’ve drawn one every few weeks since then. Today I finished my first sketchbook of these drawings almost exactly three years after I started it with this portrait of Jodi from the Museum by Sktchy app. It’s a wonderful sketchbook because I can see how much progress I’ve made over these three years I developing both my skills and my style.
If you’d like to see a flip through of my completed sketchbook you can view it on YouTube here.
drawing faces 