Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

Follow this easy drawing tutorial to create a basic portrait ... Trace all lines and details with a sharp pencil or ballpoint pen. Only do outlines of important features. Before lifting the ...

Ballpoint pen is artist Mike Nudelman's instrument of choice. The Santa Fe-based artist has worked with ballpoint pen on paper over the last decade. His works will be featured in the show "Yet Again" ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

The security guard allegedly drew eyes in ballpoint pen on two of the three figures in the painting A Russian art gallery guard has been accused of doodling on a Soviet-era painting he was ...

You've probably doodled with one of these in class: a blue Bic pen. But when Oscar Ukonu uses ... Hatching is a common artists' technique used in drawing to create tones and shading using closely ...

An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier ... which uses Canny edge detection to create an outline drawing, then fills in the empty bits to create bright and dark areas.

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...