Pen Art Techniques
Ball Point Pen Art Techniques
Biro or ball point pen art can be something quite illustrative when you try and lay down the ink on to the papers surface, but to create an effective ball point pen drawing you have to know and understand a few simple and quite advanced techniques to create some fantastic results with Biro pens. Pens of this kind can be used with black, red, blue and green altogether in one drawing, you'd just have to work out a color scheme to suit your drawing style.
Sketching with ball point pens
All color types of biro are ideal for sketching, but a black biro pen is my preferred sketch pen And the results if careful about your approach with using biro pens for art can be amazing as you can see on this hub with some ball point pen art examples
With any biro pen you can reduce the pressure with them to produce a sort of mid tone which looks grey and obviously the harder you press on the pen the darker the ink will be and with this in mind we can mix and match this way of sketching to produce some brilliant areas of gradual tone, much like a normal sketch pencil would do.
So lets run through an example of tone with a biro....
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Biro Pen Art Demonstration
In the following art video I put together a quick demonstration of some of the above ball point pen techniques which when you try them out are much like drawing with a normal pencil, but this is what most people don't realise that you can draw this way with a standard biro or ball point pen that you can add layers of tone with the ink from a biro quite well if you don't have a cheap pen that clogs with the ink, so my best recommendation is to use a Bic ball point pen like I did in the video.
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