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From my sketchbook.
I train myself to draw directly with ballpen while traveling (a lot of transport this week, for personnal reasons). Hard exercice, but full of good lessons. I want to practice more that way.
#MastoArt #ballpen #sketch #sketchbook
Sketchbook, ballpen. 
Left page: Columbo sitting in a old kitchen with a big octopus playing with a knife
Right: A young anime JRPG like character in front of a buffet with sweets. A cat is stealing a waffle. Sketchbook, ballpen.
Two cute dwarf anime creature wearing clothes of cook are cooking in a caldron instant noodle soup. Noodle are visible, a carrot is being cut, a big flavor plastic bag in foreground. In background, two giant creature are enjoying the meal with bowl and chopsticks.
Sketchbook, ballpen. 
Left: a pinguoin who does the cleaning in a bathtub place surprise many creature having a hot bath. Unicorns are talking, a pig is getting a massage by a mouse.
Right: A young witch of Hippiah , a magic of my webcomic Pepper and Carrot. She think while reading a spellbook , surrounded with nature and plants. Sketchbook, ballpen.
A messy page with hands,  characters, part of inner of a plane, and many random detail. Everything is intertwined on a double page.
i love this penguin 🐧 😁
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I'm so jealous of your lucky neighbours in the train 😱🀩
Wow, these are awesome πŸ˜ƒ
I totally love your art style
I'm sure Columbothulhu will become a big hit.
Oh wow.
The one with the pinguin has a Chihiro vibe πŸ˜ŠπŸ‰πŸŒŠ
It is always inspiring to see what awesome results are possible. =)
Such amazing work, I like it a lot! πŸ‘
Can you explain how this trains you? I think I may lean on my eraser/undo a little too much

@cookie_mumbles Hey, yes: in short, it trains the way i imagine things precisely before drawing them. It's frustrating, challenging and quickly reveals if i know a volume or (as often) NOT 🀭. If i can imagine it fully and hold it in memory while tracing it.

My next step is to learn more body parts and how to magnet my volumes to an imaginary perspective grid (cause i'm still bad at it and often fallback to isometry).

Eg: photo under, training on✌️hands.
#ballpen #MastoArt #sketch #sketchbook

Sketchbook photo, ballben.
Training with hands doing V sign. Just because the pose is interesting (finger in extension, fingers rolled in, thumb in opposition. Challenging). Also a random girl holding a (bananna) phone, eyeball studies. Many fails and retry.
Sketchbook , ballpen.
More hands fails and retry. Sepia invited themselve to the party, fan-art from imagination of Vegeta, Piccolo and Bruce Lee, and Dai from dragon quest with his sogn of the dragon on forehead. Also, a random tea bag.

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That's awesome, thank you for sharing!

Do you recommend this training for beginner/intermediate artists as well? Or should one be really familiar with how the volumes are supposed to work in 3d space?

@cookie_mumbles Its always hard to know what to recommend. In the past, I tried this method many times but it was always too frustrating , especially as soon as I screwed a face or a body part. I started to hate the page of this training on my sketchbook. Now, somehow I have more flexibility into improvisation, so even when I go wrong, I can somehow justify the random line into something else and still keep going. It helps. I still feel bad about it, but I at least not hate the pages anymore. πŸ˜‹
Thank you! I will give it a try (and probably end up with hated pages in my sketchbook haha)
all great ! πŸ˜€
wow. Every time i see people drawing like you, I feel like tossing out all my pencils and quit. But I won't, because at the same time, is when I see people drawing like you that I remember why I love drawing so much.❀️
These are lovely and I really really love biro, except the friction is a little hard on the wrist. But I think the thick stickyness just always gives a warmth and depth, slightly nostalgic? And also the sheer variety of marks you can make by varying pressure yum yum. I like playing scribble games with biro.
@jugularmalloy thanks! This one is the Bic Orange Original Fine. I like it a lot too. I emptied it today, it was new on Monday πŸ˜…
Amazing! You must have hulk wrists now.
@zekounet @cookie_mumbles Thanks! The 'fails' feeling happens because I can compare with what I had in mind πŸ˜… I can spot so many mistakes, I'm training to reduce them as much as possible.
wow, these are so great! Thank you for sharing them!

Also I love seeing how much you achieve with ballpen.

It’s like late saving grace for all the people who skribbled with the ballpen in school but gave up because they thought "this can never look professional".

Like realizing β€œmaybe this wasn’t doomed after all, and I could have kept going β€” if I see someone else do this, I’ll be sure to let them know that continuing their art and craft can produce great results”.

@ArneBab Thanks. I like how simple, available, cheap (and in a way 'humble') ballpen are. They have a lot of interesting effects (smudging with finger, quickly after crosshatching) and possibility of thin and thick on the line. It's also very reliable and easy to transport. Maybe an idea for a future video to share the tips i found with it.

yes, a future video like "how to create awesome art (and spiced carrots) with a ballpen" would be awesome!

That’s actually something that could be useful to translate into many languages and maybe even dub a translated version (if I manage to find time, that’s something I’d love to do), because it could help pupils worldwide β€” especially the ones who cannot afford 20€ for a small set of high quality ink pens.

@orangethenugreen πŸ˜‚ thanks! Oh yes, especially in shaky trains or plane, it's a real challenge sometime to get a line roughly in the good place
@Jayrive @cookie_mumbles Hey, thanks! This time will probably different from one person to another. Drawing is a language, and the method to learn and time it could take it is still very customised depending your ability to remember, imagine, memorize, focus, patience, etc. (Imo) I'm 42, I started to draw almost daily at 12, and I'm a slow learner. Many talented (hard worker) young teens nowadays are technically years ahead of my skill. πŸ˜… So, it may vary, from a couple of years, to dozens πŸ™ƒ
Somehow I almost always sketch using ballpen. I just like the way it slides on the canvas, it's very comfy. And yes it definitely forces you to plan ahead and be more deliberate if you don't want it to become an unreadable mess πŸ˜›.
Love your work, as usual πŸ˜€.
such amazing drawings!

@sylvia thanks!

You attached a screenshot from an article about a family reaction to Ai voice impersonation of a dead actor, but i struggle to connect the dot about how it is related to my ballpen sketches. Was it just offtopic , like a , 'hey look at that'. In this case, why not writing it and sending also the source link? Thanks!

is always feel observed and i can't focus on the drawing because i feel judged πŸ˜” i wish i could practice drawing when traveling
amazing artwork btw πŸ˜€ you are really talented
Those are awesome!
Scoop: on a maintenant une image de la femme de Colombo.
Wow 😍😲
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