Taking Ballpoint Pen Sketching to the Next Level: Tips and Techniques

If you enjoy this lesson, please give a thumbs up and comment to help spread the message. Please make sure to watch the video all the way through as drawing with a ballpoint pen is slightly different than a pencil. There are steps that I go over that can specifically make your pen sketches instantly better!

The best pen control

I just started using pen for my sketches. Pen holding technique helped me with light hatching big time. Thank you!

I love how your process translates over to multiple mediums. I'm a tattoo artist and my process is similar to yours(I have picked up some great tips from your videos to refine mine) and it carried over to my tattoo process.

"i keep calling this dang thing a pencil" had me chocking lol...

I love the detail you go into. I’ve seen plenty of videos about shading and they rarely go into how to hold the pen/pencil or lay down the lines. Great stuff keep at it

THANK YOU! I haven't touched a pencil in two and a half months using ball point exclusively for now and everything has improved for me considerably. Just drawing along and layering a cylinder had me grinning ear to ear. This is the second lesson from you that gave me a pretty good leap forward. I can't thank you enough!

Great videos man, ever since I started watching your videos, my art quality skyrocketed and I was able to get my first commission. Keep it up bro❤

Dude this is freaking insane. I started drawing again after so long I’m kind of starting from scratch again with anatomy sketches because I used to just copy pictures I looked up. Now I want to get into the habit of drawing from my imagination and create my own art. I can’t wait until I get my skills up to start the ball pen sketching/drawing

Thank you so much for another great video

Great point about producing barely visible lines. Great lighting is really important in that scenario because if you aren't paying close attention you might even miss the fact that you are indeed producing lines, if you happen to not be drawing on a totally fresh bright white page.

Thank you so much for sharing your time and knowledge! 🥰🙏 Kindness taking shape … ✍🏻❤️‍🩹

My mum passed away a few weeks ago and weirdly the last thing she bought was some hair clips for my Daughter to send over to Thailand because my ex is Thai and before COVID we broke up and she also bought a pack of Ball Point Pens but left them in my shopping bag and I took them home by accident. I started using your video to help me calm down when I feel like cutting myself and I am trying to get better at art, I love drawing Creatures, Demons and Monsters just from my mind or my Daughter and I will draw something together and give each other 3 random words we have to make a creature out of, she gave me Cyclops, Crab and Crocodile the other day and if you scroll through my community page you will notice which one it is, it's a few weeks ago I posted it but ty so much for making these long videos.

I'm an amateur ballpoint pen artist and this gives me a lot !! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise <3

I love that you always emphasize how the supplies doesn't really matter, and its rue and something l always say as well you don't need crazy expensive stuff to make your vision shine. Also this was extremely helpful because l've been wanting to do a lot more drawings in fine ti markers or pens cause of the whole no eraser rule it's really fun to do

Great lesson DS, haven’t read all the comments but I’ve been drawing with BPP for 40 years and I always use Pentel RSVP fine point ( several colors but use black mostly). These are better than Bic. The only Bic I like was called the Accountant fine point white body not clear. But haven’t seen these for years so I always use my Pentel.

what a crazy thing, whatever it is, it stimulates me to draw, very creative, it stimulates my imagination a lot to draw, and thank you very much for all the things that I already do, to mention again, it's like training to look at the page and the 3D way to stand out, thanks also for the tip that the things in the foreground are darker. I learned something different at school. a very powerful way of looking into the paper.

Awesome as usual, keep spreading your experience and your talent with us ! Thank you very much for all of that ❤️❤️

I found this to be very helpful. Thankyou 🙏

thank you so much for your awesome drawings and your accurate explaining!!!!