Moleskine in my pocket (and ballpoint pen as well)
Well, I know, it's kinda strange to carry small sketchbook around and doodle in it with pen or pencils in our time of gadgets, tablets, electric cars et cetera.. I know but I can't help it - I just love to draw, and most of all I love to draw people. Myself, friends, family, characters from movies and TV, even imaginative persons - you name it.
For small doodles in moleskine most of the time I use ballpoint pen - I like ability to control not only thickness of line but (more important) the value of the strokes.
Ballpoint pens tend to leave nasty blotches of ink so I have a peculiar habit of smudging excess ink off the tip after every couple of strokes.
The main drawback of ballpoint pen - unability to erase - eventually became its greatest virtue. Despite these pens are cheapest tools in my arsenal they can teach highly valuable lessons - how to make right desicions straight away, how to overcome the fear of mistakes, how to find and keep likeness of person (SPOILER: it's quite hard, I fail often ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
At certain point I felt like I can draw with 2 or 3 colors (with awesome 4-in-1 pens from stationery store). Combining red and blue ink can create insteresting temperature shifts which makes illusion of skin tones.
And of course, small moleskine and pen can entertain you during long flights, I hate to sleep in airplanes so I draw all the time
So I think it's enough for the very first post here on steemit, hope it wasn't boring! If you like pen drawing like I do please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Your drawings are amazing! You certainly have acquired some skills my friend. The faces are so life like.
I was actually just on my way to the shops to buy some new ballpoints for drawing. I lost the ones I had. I’m definitely going to get one of those four-in-one coulou ones too. Just to play around with.
Thanks for giving me that extra bit of inspiration today :)
Thank you! I love to explore new pens, you never know, some pens are just awesome while others are crap. You can buy pen of your dream even on gas station
Oh wow, these are superb! I love your pen strokes! They are so expressive <3 Cant believe you did these mostly on pens, too! What precision! What skill! <3
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Holy crap! This is awesome! :D And it´s not strange at all to carry a small sketchbook around and doodle in it with pen or pencils! It´s great imho!
I´m looking forward to see more awesome stuff from you!! Love how you sketch with ballpoint pens! Really amazing!
Thanks a lot! :)
Hi Arthur welcome to Steemit! Wow what an amazing ballpoint skills! Just stunning. Cool to see you work with different colors too! Really gives cool effects :)
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
Wow! Fantastic sketches! I'm a proud owner of a moleskine sketchbook myself, but haven't started using it much yet! You just gave me a powerful boost of inspiration, @arthurgain! Welcome to Steemit!
I will post my welcoming message below for you, because I wish someone had told me all this stuff when I joined Steemit. Maybe you'll find it helpful, @arthurgain!
I hope that you’ll find this place friendly, and rewarding! I enjoy Steemit very much myself. I’d like to share some tips with you to help make your start here easy, and successful <3
I wish I was told several things when I was new here, like you are now. My experience is, that:
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Oh wow!
I've discovered another person of talent!
Welcome to Steemit and I hope you are soon reaping the rewards your skill and talent deserve.
Your drawings are just like the drawings I would love to be able to do.
Re Steemit. You've noticed you've started with a Rep of 25. At first, do not worry about making money, it is more important your raise your Rep (from 25 to 50 it goes fairly qickly, after that it goes slower and slower). You'll see upvotes earning you nothing or 1c. Doesn't matter. The upvotes themself are what raise your Rep. As Rep goes up, so do payments - unless some high-powered visitors come to your posts and upvote you.
Somehow, having seen the quality of your post, I do not think you will be worried about getting visitors.
I am going to follow you, in the hope that I see your posts in my feed.
Thank you, Arthur! I hope I will get used to the platform which seems very friendly and nice
What an amazing talent! I'm loving the faces and expressions, THE HANDS! Incredible. And I agree nothing beats the pen on paper feeling! I carry a sketchbook with me also but my attempts come nowhere close to your mastery
Thank you, much appreciated!
Excellent. Follow you, big artist
Thank you, Ksenja!
Wow !!!! Incredible ! the way you work your values and and how you create those volumes with the ball pen is really something =O i love those shapes !!
Thanks!! Your evaluation of the values is important for me :)
Not strange at all, I do it all the time, I even carry 2 sketchbooks in my backpack...just in case 😆
Is this Lora Zombie?
Really amazing drawings you have there friend, thanks for sharing them here with us 😺
Not really, Idk who it was, more like imaginative person. I like to start with some random reference and just draw loosely without paying attention to the likeness.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated )