How to Draw with a Ballpoint Pen is a beginner's guide for new and aspiring artists! Learn to create art with only a ballpoint pen and your imagination. Draw your day, design something fabulous, create a clever sketchbook, practice cartooning - the options are endless. This beginner's guide helps artists and aspiring artists of all levels learn art techinques using only a ballpoint pen and their imaginations. You'll soon be mastering shading, perspective, patchwork, spirals, ornaments, animals, portraits, logos, pictograms, fantasy, abstraction, and much more. Step-by-step pictures, instructions, and inspiration will show you all that you can accomplish with this versatile drawing tool. You can even draw on various materials and objects, but the book includes 16 blank pages to instantly get you started.

From impossible shapes to three-dimensional sketches and trick art, you won't believe your eyes as you learn to draw optical illusions in graphite and colored pencil. Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions begins with a basic introduction to optical illusions and how they work. Jonathan Stephen Harris then guides you step-by-step in creating mind-blowing pencil drawings, starting with basic optical illusions and progressing to more difficult two- and three-dimensional trick art. Perspective and dimension are difficult to capture for both beginning and established artists, but now you can hone those skills in the most unique way possible, while also exercising your mind with these brain-boosting, unbelievable tricks!

PEN AND INK DRAWING WORKBOOK is perfect for anyone looking for a book that provides lots of practice for developing and refining ink drawing skills and technique. It is appropriate for learners on all levels and is filled with over 100 engaging drills and exercises. The exercises in this comprehensive workbook are thoughtfully designed to take you from the essential elements like pen control, line consistency, basic strokes and variations to more advanced concepts such as, blending values, controlling gradations, shading compound forms, and rendering textures. It covers all the major pen and ink shading techniques including cross-hatching, stippling, scribbling, and more. In addition, there are 30 inspiring drawing exercises on a variety of subjects, which allows you to draw right inside the book. This book is the complementary workbook for PEN AND INK DRAWING: A SIMPLE GUIDE. However, it can still be used on its own as a general workbook for refining your skills and helping you to create stunning ink drawings with confidence!

Explores the work, methods, and themes of leading contemporary artists

Ballpoint Pen STRAIGHT LINES Drawing Practice. Drawing exercises for the serious ballpoint pen artist. Draw on every page inside the book, using a simple black ink ballpoint pen. Section 1: TRACE thousands of straight lines and square patterns directly on the pages inside. Section 2: COPY over 200 + simple linear designs on the blank grids provided below every exercise. The self-paced drawing exercises include an exhaustive number of deceptively simple practice pages. You carefully trace printed lines to master your pen control. Copy the line patterns to improve your direct observation skills and hand-eye coordination. ItÕs a sketchbook for pen artists to practice mastering their ink lines.

As an art medium back in vogue, ballpoint pen has been prov^en to be a versatile tool with infinite possibilities. Characterised by its low-cost, light and convenient traits, they are particularly handy for sketch work. Some artists even need little or merely no preparation for the sketching. An impromptu creation with ballpoints is appealing as it enables an artist to record immediately his/her sudden creative urges. Playful Ballpoints: Creative Drawing of Ballpoints features 30 ballpoint artists who are creating distinctive and expressive drawings. In this book, you can appreciate how these artists inject new live to ballpoint pens through drawings.

"As an art medium back in vogue, ballpoint pen has been proven to be a versatile tool with infinite possibilities. Characterized by their low-cost, light and convenient traits, they are particularly handy for sketch work. Ballpoint Art: Complexity From Simplicity features 30 ballpoint artists who are creating distinctive and expressive drawings solely using a ballpoint pen. In this book, you can appreciate how these artists inject new life to ballpoint pens through their illustrations. Given the utility of the pen, some artists need little or merely no preparation to create sketches marked by a strong sense of line and a distinct contrast between light and shade. An impromptu creation with ballpoints is appealing, as it enables an artist to record immediately his or her sudden creative urges. Explore the methods they use and their personal connections to the pen through included detailed interviews"--Publisher's description.