When you think of ballpoint pens, your mind probably goes to office supplies, not great works of art. But even the lowliest and most ubiquitous of writing utensils can make breathtaking masterpieces ...

How many of you art geniuses out there used to doodle with your ball-point pens? How many of you thought you were drawing a pretty good cat, or house, or tree? I am sure that 99% of all kids who went ...

Artist James Mylne spends hundreds of hours on each of his drawings. His preferred tool is a standard Bic ballpoint pen, leaving no room for mistakes, slips or smudges. James Mylne's hyper-realistic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: “My name is Jacqueline Suowari and I am a visual artist. I primarily use the ballpoint pen to draw." This Nigerian artist ...

I know I’m not alone when I say that I hate writing with ballpoint pens–cheap, clumsy, no-good ballpoint pens. They make my signature look like it came from some 7-year-old kid who’s just learning ...

An award-winning artist has visited 53 nature reserves around the UK to produce drawings using a ballpoint pen. Cy Baker, who was Wildlife Artist of the Year in 2022, partnered with the Wildlife ...

From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari’s larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the ...

The ballpoint pen, though held responsible by various academicians for spoiling many a child's handwriting, is not only the most popular modern tool for writing but also for fun things like doodling.

In the autumn of 1948, Marcel Bich, owner of a company located north of Paris that produced ink cartridges for fountain pens, pushed a wheelbarrow in his garden in the village of Rhuis. He considered ...

James Mylne's hyper-realistic portraits are already incredibly impressive but when you learn that they are drawn in ballpoint pen, they become mind-boggling. The London-based artist's preferred tool ...