Ballpoint Pen Sketches
These are all using either Jetstream or Ballograf ballpoint pens, some with ink washes.

These are all using either Jetstream or Ballograf ballpoint pens, some with ink washes.
This little blog is ending another year, so why not post one more post in 2023 filled with birds? These hummingbirds and juncos are done in graphite on Etched stone paper.
This year was filled with bird drawings and landscapes. We’ll see what 2024 holds. Happy New Year!
This Infinity pencil is supposed to last a long time. Is it compressed graphite, a mix with some type of metal? I don’t really know. It writes like a very light H pencil on regular paper, but it does a fantastic job on stone paper, which makes me think there’s metal in the nib. I drew these birds with this one pencil, and it shows the variety of tones I can get on this Etched paper, which now comes in single sheets.
I’m still enjoying my new mineral paper sketchbook, mostly choosing ink and pencils this past week.
I used ink with some sprinkles of salt to create this moody background, and then I used Faber-Castell Pitt matt graphite pencils for the Junco and branches. I never get tired of drawing a little bird in a tree.
More ink for this cup plant leaf.
And colored pencil for these Goldfinches with a few ink dried plants.