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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
(23,813 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)tblue37
(65,502 posts)Heck--I can't even write neatly with such a pen!
kag
(4,079 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
(57,403 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)All the elements combined create the result.
marble falls
(57,403 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,210 posts)paleotn
(17,990 posts)Wow!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,111 posts)Love it
PatrickforO
(14,600 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Beautiful!
tblue37
(65,502 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
(22,184 posts)I can't believe he's doing these with a 4 color ballpoint pen. The color blending looks like pastels.
Very talented!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)with ballpoints. Just WOW.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)Enlarge the wooden posts in the horse stall to see what I mean.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)just drew on yellow paper.
tblue37
(65,502 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
(65,502 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,420 posts)He looks just like the very real cat who just asked me for treats!
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)Unbelievable medium.
TNNurse
(6,931 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
(65,502 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
(22,930 posts)For some, that would increase the value.
magicarpet
(14,195 posts)Incredible art work.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)They're all very good. Although the left hand on the guy with the top hat is freaking me out.
blaze
(6,385 posts)And, I think, is holding the other glove.
ornotna
(10,807 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
(10,137 posts)Simply incredible.
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)but pencil easier & i got bored.
ailsagirl
(22,901 posts)Thank you for posting!