Ballpoint Pens and Ink Brushes

As I’ve mentioned before, ballpoint pens don’t get enough credit as an artistic tool. And while I was playing around with some colored pens I had on an armor design I thought would be fun for a character of mine, as seen below…I came to a dilemma when it came to skin tones. There are no browns and yellows in my pen set, so…I became very limited in what I could do in comparison to what I used to do before with those big fat click pens that had 11 different colors in them. You know the ones…they were a must have to any junior high and high school student back in the early 90’s! They came with two greens, two blues, a pink, purple, yellow, orange, brown, red, black…no individual set can compare to those; especially since my current set is missing the light green, yellow, and brown colors. And I sigh…



So I had to figure out how to fix this problem, to which I look at an ink brush pen set I bought myself a year or so ago…and smile. Well…there aren’t any flat RED reds in there…all these pink and purple shades of red, but that was ok! As you can see above, she really isn’t wearing anything red anyways! But the brush pens seem to work out quite nicely with the ballpoint pens…yes indeed they do! This little test excited me…a lot! And with this in mind, I thought…HEY! Why don’t I work on some other media pieces along with the window paintings? I’ve got two more of those completed at the moment, but am currently unable to get such lovely photographs of them onto my computer at the moment. Maybe next Sunday, eh?



So here we go! I started out with just a flat black and white ink drawing, and then later added the color to it! What do you guys think? Looks nice, right? And I’ve got plans to do more for the shows! Hey hey hey! Look at me go! Making pretty scenery pictures of places around towns and such to make the non-student RPers/anime buffs possibly interested in my talents! WEEEEE!



Should I be considering myself a sell-out? Mm…not really. I learned early in my illustration training that I was really good at replicating from photographs. And it’s probably something I should have allowed myself to pursue further into instead of being the stubborn selfish bitch that I am in wanting to continue drawing up and writing stories about characters that pop in and out of my head…only to burn myself out while learning about the art of comic books and learning that if I’m working on something I’m not overly thrilled about myself, then I’ll wind up not wanting to draw, paint, or do anything remotely artistic-ly creative for a long period of time.

And don’t think that I’m not passionate about what I’m doing now. I’m actually enjoying being able to paint again, especially on something as wishy-washy as glass…it’s challenging my knowledge of light and colors. Which is good because I need to remember how to make such challenges work for me when I start candle carving again. Dipping a candle in red wax and then yellow wax does not make the candle orange! And with finding a way of putting the ballpoint pens and ink brushes to good collaborative use, I can promote something that isn’t seen very often…or…at least I haven’t seen it very often, and I saw a lot of art coming through the shop I used to work at to be shipped. Some were ink drawings, yes…but if it was colored, it was normally through watercolors! So there!

Yeah…so…yeah. Heh. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! Please!

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