Actually, in one of my college courses, a whole day of one of my classes was dedicated to making ballpoint pen doodles. They can be very powerful images! And of course, what you do with one afterwards, especially by computer (if you ask me), can make a really great finished piece of art.
This has a lot of texture to look at, and I've been busy staring at it for a while. The colours, all two of them, are very relaxing!
Woah, I'm glad to hear something like this! Whenever I show my sketchbook to my teachers (I'm in an artschool too, only comic-oriented) some of them always comment on how can I use such a crappy medium to do most of my drawings with. XD Especially since I use those free advertising pens, ahaha.. But I adore what sort of things you can do with it, completely different from pencils and inking pens, it's like a combination of them both, a bit. (Those pens I also use, but ball point pens just pull me in..)
I think any medium has it's good points and it's bad ones...it's up to the artist to know how to use the good qualities well, and avoid the bad ones! Even really cheap markers, or kids tempera paints can be used beautifully by someone who knows what they're doing.
I think balls points have more of the line width and texture of pencil, but they're darker and a bit more scratchy, like ink? anyhow, I like it!
How inspiring! I've had trouble with brushes and brushpens, you made me want to conquer them now. Maaaaybe some day! But yeah, artists spending loads of money on super-expensive media and then not knowing how to use them at all is really frustrating to me. Start from the basics! Some people even use MS-goddamned-paint to create FANTASTIC stuff, so not having proper tools is not an excuse XD I've used some kids watercolours for AGES and I recently purchased some actual factual artist's watercolours and they really intimidate, hurf..
Yesss I love the line width and the varying.. darkness levels? Lolol what, the most.
Yeah! While some more expensive things ARE better, I don't think it's such a huge difference. In the end what matters most is an artists talent, and will to experiment (something I need to do more).
I always just buy the cheaper paints and inks, because I know I can get the effect I want with them. I think gouache is almost the only medium where I can actually tell a big difference between cheap paints and better ones.
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