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This artist does impressive color ballpoint pen drawings: (Original Post) tblue37 Jul 2018 OP
Wow, the creativity and talent posted here is awesome. Fla Dem Jul 2018 #1
Unbelievable!! secondwind Jul 2018 #2
Look at the cheap dimestore pen he is using for his colors: tblue37 Jul 2018 #3
I noticed that, too. kag Jul 2018 #9
Its not the tool itself, its the hand and eye, and familiarity with the tool. marble falls Jul 2018 #28
Exactly! BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #36
And they say there's no eye in 'team'. marble falls Aug 2018 #37
He has the eye and the touch. LiberalFighter Jul 2018 #4
Absolutely incredible talent. paleotn Jul 2018 #5
So much talent in this world. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2018 #6
Amazing! PatrickforO Jul 2018 #7
I'm very impressed. Hope this guy is making a fortune, if not he should be. blueinredohio Jul 2018 #8
The video on his site says he is establishing an art scholarship. In the video, he tblue37 Jul 2018 #18
Hopefully if he does want to do better this exposure will help him. blueinredohio Jul 2018 #22
Great eye for color and characterization Bayard Jul 2018 #10
Exactly. I do not understand how the color blending worked Duppers Jul 2018 #12
Very fine, detailed crosshatching--e.g. red & green to create illusion of brown. tblue37 Jul 2018 #25
I was confused about how he got yellow, but then realized he probably tblue37 Jul 2018 #19
Also, if you enlarge his browns, like the wood in the horse stall, you'll realize he tblue37 Jul 2018 #20
Absolutely stunning and gorgeous firstwife Jul 2018 #11
gadzooks! i didn't know my favorite pen could do that certainot Jul 2018 #13
That horse stall... I'd swear that color and style looks like something defacto7 Jul 2018 #14
That one and the portrait of the young woman are my favorites. nt tblue37 Jul 2018 #15
Wow! And this amazing cat! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2018 #16
Incredible talent lillypaddle Jul 2018 #17
I want to find a new superlative to describe my respect for this talent. TNNurse Jul 2018 #21
Wish I had never seen this - feel so inadequate packman Jul 2018 #23
Photorealistic pencil artists (another skill that astonished me) can spend tblue37 Jul 2018 #24
Wonderful work. I hope he has tested the pens for colorfastness! It's helpful that Doitnow Jul 2018 #26
His work is clearly ephemeral unless treated. Nitram Jul 2018 #35
Really most look like photos rather than drawings. magicarpet Jul 2018 #27
Wonderful work, amazing talent ornotna Jul 2018 #29
Left hand has a glove on! blaze Jul 2018 #31
Yes, I agree ornotna Jul 2018 #34
Amazing. I have a sketchbook and I don't have single sketch that sniffs that talent. JDC Jul 2018 #30
A talanted artist, is an artist, and is an artist...and this person is a great artist..nt Stuart G Jul 2018 #32
i did one ballpoint artpiece. replicated an old black + white photo. turned out good pansypoo53219 Jul 2018 #33
Impressive, indeed! ailsagirl Aug 2018 #38

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
3. Look at the cheap dimestore pen he is using for his colors:
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 07:23 PM
Jul 2018


Heck--I can't even write neatly with such a pen!

kag

(4,076 posts)
9. I noticed that, too.
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 08:56 PM
Jul 2018

People spend hundreds, thousands of dollars on art supplies, and this guy produces this kind of quality with a four-color Bic? Wow!

I'm with you, tblue37. I can't draw a stick figure with the best of supplies. I love that our world has such talented people in it.

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
18. The video on his site says he is establishing an art scholarship. In the video, he
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 09:59 AM
Jul 2018

says you don't have to have a lot to give back, which makes me think he does OK but not a lot better than OK.

Bayard

(21,806 posts)
10. Great eye for color and characterization
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 09:15 PM
Jul 2018

I can't believe he's doing these with a 4 color ballpoint pen. The color blending looks like pastels.

Very talented!

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
25. Very fine, detailed crosshatching--e.g. red & green to create illusion of brown.
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 02:04 PM
Jul 2018

Enlarge the wooden posts in the horse stall to see what I mean.

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
19. I was confused about how he got yellow, but then realized he probably
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 10:00 AM
Jul 2018

just drew on yellow paper.

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
20. Also, if you enlarge his browns, like the wood in the horse stall, you'll realize he
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 10:03 AM
Jul 2018

gets brown by super fine crosshatching of red and green. For the African-American man, he uses red and green, but then adds blue to darken the shade and provide rich, subtle highlights.

He does that, too, for this woman's hair:

firstwife

(115 posts)
11. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 09:21 PM
Jul 2018

This is how god manifests himself, I believe. Look what he has done with the crudest of tools to work with. Truly touched by divinity.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
14. That horse stall... I'd swear that color and style looks like something
Sun Jul 29, 2018, 09:39 PM
Jul 2018

Andrew Wyeth would have done.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
23. Wish I had never seen this - feel so inadequate
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 01:30 PM
Jul 2018

Amazing to be blessed with the skill and the work habits he must have practiced to achieve that perfection - Proves it's not the tools, but the man who creates

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
24. Photorealistic pencil artists (another skill that astonished me) can spend
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 02:02 PM
Jul 2018

hundreds of hours on a single drawing.

Here is a search page with a bunch of those images:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=photorealistencil+drawings&FORM=HDRSC2

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
26. Wonderful work. I hope he has tested the pens for colorfastness! It's helpful that
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 02:18 PM
Jul 2018

the drawings are in a sketchbook that is closed most of the time.

ornotna

(10,763 posts)
29. Wonderful work, amazing talent
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 02:52 PM
Jul 2018

They're all very good. Although the left hand on the guy with the top hat is freaking me out.

ornotna

(10,763 posts)
34. Yes, I agree
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 07:56 PM
Jul 2018

But those fingers! It looks like he put four fingers into two of the glove and the last two are empty. Still, better than I could do.

JDC

(10,084 posts)
30. Amazing. I have a sketchbook and I don't have single sketch that sniffs that talent.
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 03:43 PM
Jul 2018

Simply incredible.

pansypoo53219

(20,908 posts)
33. i did one ballpoint artpiece. replicated an old black + white photo. turned out good
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 06:27 PM
Jul 2018

but pencil easier & i got bored.

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