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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
(23,650 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)tblue37
(65,328 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
(57,077 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)All the elements combined create the result.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,888 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)Wow!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Love it
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Beautiful!
tblue37
(65,328 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
(22,061 posts)I can't believe he's doing these with a 4 color ballpoint pen. The color blending looks like pastels.
Very talented!
Duppers
(28,120 posts)with ballpoints. Just WOW.
tblue37
(65,328 posts)Enlarge the wooden posts in the horse stall to see what I mean.
tblue37
(65,328 posts)just drew on yellow paper.
tblue37
(65,328 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
(65,328 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,206 posts)He looks just like the very real cat who just asked me for treats!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Unbelievable medium.
TNNurse
(6,926 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
(65,328 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
(22,791 posts)For some, that would increase the value.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Incredible art work.
ornotna
(10,799 posts)They're all very good. Although the left hand on the guy with the top hat is freaking me out.
blaze
(6,359 posts)And, I think, is holding the other glove.
ornotna
(10,799 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
(10,125 posts)Simply incredible.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,972 posts)but pencil easier & i got bored.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Thank you for posting!