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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis artist does impressive color ballpoint pen drawings:
Color Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Nicolas V. Sanchezhttp://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/color-ballpoint-pen-drawings-by-nicolas-v-sanchez/
Sketchbook-Based Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Nicolas V. Sanchez
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/06/new-ballpoint-pen-drawings-by-nicolas-v-sanchez/
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/color-ballpoint-pen-drawings-by-nicolas-v-sanchez/
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)Heck--I can't even write neatly with such a pen!
kag
(4,076 posts)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.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)All the elements combined create the result.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)paleotn
(17,781 posts)Wow!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)Love it
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Beautiful!
tblue37
(64,982 posts)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.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Bayard
(21,806 posts)I can't believe he's doing these with a 4 color ballpoint pen. The color blending looks like pastels.
Very talented!
Duppers
(28,094 posts)with ballpoints. Just WOW.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)Enlarge the wooden posts in the horse stall to see what I mean.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)just drew on yellow paper.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)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)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.
certainot
(9,090 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Andrew Wyeth would have done.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,040 posts)He looks just like the very real cat who just asked me for treats!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Unbelievable medium.
TNNurse
(6,911 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)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)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)the drawings are in a sketchbook that is closed most of the time.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)For some, that would increase the value.
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)Incredible art work.
ornotna
(10,763 posts)They're all very good. Although the left hand on the guy with the top hat is freaking me out.
blaze
(6,270 posts)And, I think, is holding the other glove.
ornotna
(10,763 posts)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)Simply incredible.
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,908 posts)but pencil easier & i got bored.
ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)Thank you for posting!