Drawing Tips | Ballpoint Pen & Portrait Sketching

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Ballpoint pen drawing is such a fun way to experience and learn pen and ink drawing. It shares qualities of pencil, which enables you to use light lines, vary pressure, blend lines into tone and layer shading to create various effects. Post your questions and comments and I'll respond in future videos.

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[kipper]

We're about to start drawing portraits for tips at some local bars, it's the first time we'll ever do something like that and we're very excited as well as nervous. Seeing this video pop up in our feed felt serendipidous. Thank you for your great tips, for helping us to think more deeply about our portraits and drawings in general, and for showing us what is possible and how we can raise the bar! The portraits in the video look amazing!

[Mallowolf]

I always feel energised to draw after watching one of your vids. Thanks so much for the insight and the motivation!

[derekcutsinger]

Always a good day when a new Dunn video drops!

[rachelturgeon]

Beautiful, beautiful work. I am looking at the ball point pen very differently now thanks to this post by you. LOVE your style and work.

[AeternumInferis]

So much talent on display. You are my go to when it comes to the inking process.

[Imjustabilly]

bro you're the freaking goat. our professor told us about you and really dig your stuff!

[colintimmons]

Loved this video! I’m not a frequent watcher, but when I do look up pen and ink drawing videos Alphonso is the first I go to. I have your first book too! I have recently been working on a project that requires me to do a lot of portrait art. I do mine on an iPad mostly, but I still found all the tips and info to be helpful and informative. I also love watching a master artist draw a portrait just starting from one feature of a character and working his way to the others until the whole is complete. Something enchanting about that kind of highly developed talent. Thanks for the video! I think it will be a go to for me when I need tips.

[christiangerhardt]

Dude you are one of my biggest inspirations. Much respect from South Africa!

[Temporarychannelhomework]

Got your books in 2018, went through them all, amazing, fun, engaging. Now I picked them up again and going through them again, so much I missed during the first time

[DrunkJackal]

I just recently started drawing in ballpoint pen. Previously, I saw it as an inferior tool compared to other pens because it's a bit unpredictable with line quality, but after using it for a bit, I appreciate the ability to adjust line weight and darkness so easily. It's also really good for sketching since it keeps you moving and thinking due to the inability to erase.

[GaryAdams-gi]

Thank you for creating an easy to understand and follow tutorials on how to draw . Most informative I have found. Even your books have easy to follow and understand direction and tips

[rwang]

It is so satisfying just to watch as magics reveal themselves.

[colinreid]

Thank you Alphonso, had your books for a long time.

[georgepotter]

Gave me a different way to look at my drawing confidence to draw with ink. It's always been that fear of permanent and corrections. But you have helped

[creativewah]

Great tips! Incredible work as always! ❤❤❤

[ohguimoura]

I love your drawing style man! thanks for sharing 😍

[tomjoad]

Great tips. Your videos are insightful and relaxing. What sketchbook are you using?

[ZadenZane]

I've seen some amazing drawings done with the Bic Crystal ballpoint pen often in a gorgeous purple blue. (I don't think I've ever seen that shade in real life.) Anyway I was going to say, what happens if you put ballpoint drawings on the wall? When I've window tested inks and paint in the past, black Bic ballpoint faded to nothing faster than anything else. The blue was actually more lightfast, but they're really not permanent colours. That's a pity because those drawings can look amazing. I do all my drawings with nib pens of different types but I'm middle aged! Mine was the last generation to have compulsorily used nib pens at school. (Fountain pens when I was at school. My parents used dipping pens.) The point I'm making: nib pens have never been alien to me. Kids today seem to think they're weird. I'd love to be able to do intricate pen art of any kind, but I'm not too good at hatching, I'm much better off using paint to add dimenensionality to my pictures✒️

[tammylong]

You're work is amazing. I'm ordering your book and workbook. Im sure you've covered this before, but what paper do you recommend for ballpoint pen? Very smooth or more of a mixed media paper?

[theartworks]

I am watching your videos from 2015….loved that nothing changes. A genuine teacher indeed.