Ballpoint Pen Portrait Drawing Demo & Tips

How to draw a portrait with a ballpoint pen as a part of learning how to draw the head, facial features, people, and the figure. This is a drawing of Art Blakey, late jazz musician. In this tutorial I show you how to draw a portrait using a regular, simple, cheap, actually FREE ole TD Bank ballpoint (ball-point or ball point) pen. I’ll use the same pen and ink techniques like hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling and even stippling in some areas. The unique advantage of the ball point pen is that you can