Drawing with ballpoint pens : hatching and related techniques
Welcome ! These drawings were made on paper using ballpoint pens – except for 2 of them. Can you guess which ones ?
Some of them change when you move them or if you move the light source. Thanks to the slideshows, you can experience that effect on your computer screen.
Most of these dynamic drawings were made using
three colours : gold, silver and white. Paper sizes vary from A5 for the smallest ones to A3. The drawings are made using a very simple hatching technique, usually diagonal hatching, sometimes vertical. At some point, I started using motifs other than just hatchings. Some of the first drawings where I started playing with other motifs are :
Jack and the Beanstalk or The Hillo Ship.
I use the reflective properties of the inks, which are different according to whether it is a metallic ink or not. Metallic inks relect light more at a specific angle, while non-metallic inks reflect light in more or less the same intensity at all angles.
That is why white, for instance, shows up when the metallic colours become dull when tilting the drawing or moving your position around with respect to the drawn surface.
I have recently also screen-printed a blown-up version of the NEW FACES pattern on A3 papers of various colours. I did this at a print shop in London. This would not have been possible without the assistance of Garrett who helped me throughout the whole process. Thanks, Garrett !
The NEW FACES series prints will soon be visible on this blog. Meanwhile, Please enjoy the ones that are already posted.
If you have a specific drawing technique that is similar to this one, or if you would like to share an original drawing technique that you have discovered, and you would like to share it, feel free to talk about it in the comment box on this page !
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