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Aw, I found this a drawing whilst looking for something else. I made for my Art O Level many many moons ago. Around thirty years ago. I did this and some
studies of denim with blue ballpoints. I'd never have imagined then that I'd become known for drawing with a ballpoint pen. Or that I'd have a
drawing of a pair of converse in ballpoint that would go viral. Although, I was a real dreamer so maybe I would have imagined that. Well, not the bit about it going viral. I couldn't have dreamt up the Internet. Even my imagination couldn't have come up with that!
I've a few original artworks, in my Etsy shop, going cheap.
The drawing above is brand new. I did it while waiting in the car park, in a local village,
Hayfield, here in Derbyshire. It's the village where the BBC production called, funnily enough,
The Village is filmed. Throughout the filming Hayfield was transformed into a village from 1914. Which basically means that they hardly did anything to it. It really hasn't changed much in a hundred years.
Below, is an oldie.
You can find them both, and some others,
HERE.
As promised, here is the second method I use, when it comes to drawing shoes. This, it has to be said, is my favourite method of all. And, I use it not only for drawings shoes but for most of the still life drawings that I make. In fact, this is probably how about 90% of them were created. My friend says it's cheating, but I don't think so. This method means that everything I draw is the actual size of the object. Plus, for me, it brings the object and the drawing closer together. I feel that the object really becomes a part of the drawing when I draw like this;
Method 2
Oh, and by the way, I have used exactly the same tools as in the last post minus the tracing paper. You don't need that.
Step 1. Get your Converse boot, or whatever it is you want to draw, and draw around it. Yes, actually put it on the page and draw around it. I've used pencil to get the initial shape in the drawing above. It'll never be true to shape, because it depends what angle you are coming from (in so many ways), but I like that.
Step 2. Then draw around the pencil outline with a ballpoint to give you a ballpoint outline (apologies for the totally bloody obviousness of what I'm saying). It doesn't matter if it differs from the pencil outline, it's your shoe and your drawing.
Step 3. Adding 'values'. I'd never actually heard this term before I started drawing blogging. I think it might be a US term (?) or even a technical term. As I said in the last post, I've had no training so maybe that's why I'd never heard it before. So, for those, not in the know, like me, add some shading! By looking at your shoe you can see where the darker bits are - hatch there.
Step 4. More hatching. More more more. Continuing on from the last step, building it up and adding some texture.
Step 5. Adding more detail and continuing with the
therapeutic cross hatching. Really feel those textures. Touch your boots!
Finally. This print. Available. On Etsy. Find it HERE.
Coming soon to an Etsy shop near you. Signed limited edition prints for a teeny weeny price. And here is the obsessive twist; I'm highlighting the little pen, in the centre of the page, with ballpoint pen. I may live to regret it.
Any Brits who want to purchase a print now, can do so directly from me - if you can pay by cheque. Just give me a shout.
Coming soon to any
Etsy shop near you.
I've had so many enquiries, over the last few weeks, about the type of ballpoint pens I use. The answer is quite simple; any. Any I can get my hands on. I have no loyalty to a specific brand. I buy the cheap and nasty ones. I'll buy them in packs of six or ten. Usually I don't even buy them, I find them. I pick up any lost or discarded pen I come across. I use the ones that come free in charity envelopes. Any.
I don't really get hung up on the materials I use. I don't care. I'll use anything in order to draw. And, to me, there is something quite magical about creating a piece of work out of something so cheap. I like that.
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I think that is cunning rather than cheating!
LOL. Andrea! Do you do Sock Puppets?
Whatever works....and your methods work SO WELL for you! Thanks for sharing, Andrea, I admire your generosity as well as your beautiful work.
Hey, if the Old Masters can use a camera obscura, then I see no shame in a bit of tracing round! If I'm doing a commissioned portrait, I will often blow a photo up to the size I want, cut out the figure and draw round the main bits to get the proportions right - it's what you do to it afterwards that mstters.
Values - just a fancy way of saying lights and darks......
I am laughing so much here! I think it is because what you write makes it sound so easy but what the pictures show is so clever!
Thanks for sharing that - it's always great to know how different people work...not cheating at all - I'd say it was clever ;)
Sarah x
I don't think it's cheating at all... since nothing will be created if you hadn't put a shoe there and trace it to begin with. It's just a different way of producing awesome art which your friend doesn't understand.
But I can see now that you're main steps are still the same, which are cross-hatching layer after layer(lots of patience), and adding details after details. The only difference between the 1st and 2nd are really the ways to get the outlines =)
I am getting my wife to trace things she loves on her japanese comic books so that her hand will memorize the strokes and points, and eventually one day she wouldn't need to trace and able to draw a decent face freehand. ^^
I don't think that's cheating at all!!! I would call this creative... Imaginative... Thanks for putting the steps here... I am always at awe looking at your ballpen drawings!!
This is no cheating. I've taken help of graphs to get the proportions right when converting from a small one to a really large size. The actual drawing outcome is the showcase of your talent. I bet many would be able to get the proportions right by tracing or whatever, but can't produce the great final piece that you do.
Yep! If it helps get you where you're going...
Thanks for being so generous, Andrea.
This is Di from moreidlethoughts. I have to pretend to be anon so Blogger will let me play. Stupid Blogger!
This is wonderful! Now all I need is for you to come to my house and show me why my hatching never looks like this!! In fact, I find hatching the least therapeutic part...it's where I usually blow it!
"Adding Values", its a term from using drawing software like Adobe Photoshop. The "values" are the numbers to assign the shading density. 0,0,0 equals pure white. 255, 255,255 is solid black. each number represents an amount of cyan, magenta or yellow colour added.
This is a wonderful post! Thank you for sharing Andrea.
Well I've read your two methods and my jaw is still down to my feet! You are amazing. I think I would need you there guiding my hand to do the same thing. Then again, that's what makes us all different, doesn't it? Now where are some ballpoints..oh, and a shoe. And maybe some moss..
Fantastic Andrea! Absolutely amazing! Love all your work, congratulations :)
By the way, what about a "how to draw hair" step by step...? ;)
Thanks for sharing your work and methods
Thank you all, so much, folks.
Yes, I guess the method is the same it's just that the way of getting the outline is different.
Sorry, if this is a bit of a rubbish reply but I have an 8 year old talking in my ear.
Cheers, Andrea.