Sketches with black pen. Master class on drawing with a gel pen for beginners

Remember school years Well, who hasn’t sinned by sketching something arbitrary on the back page of a notebook during a boring lesson. And if available artistic abilities, this activity fascinated me and was expressed in sketches of reality, caricatures and caricatures of my friends or teachers, funny pictures and so on. Funny, but nothing more.

If we turn to classical drawing methods, then a ballpoint pen has never been considered a tool for creating drawings. And as it turned out, it was in vain. Contemporary artists who freed their consciousness from stereotypes, using ballpoint pens, achieve amazing effects. The pictures come out rich in color, volume, and vibrant texture. Some of them resemble photographs when executed, others are similar to computer graphics highest quality, there are also those that look like an engraving.

Of course, to get such images you need to have talent and skills in working with a ballpoint pen. But you always need to start somewhere and try. Moreover, ballpoint pens in modern office supplies have acquired many new properties; you can choose pens with different line thicknesses, and various color shades in a fairly rich palette, the quality of the balls in the rods allows you to draw without blots and unmarked areas.

To draw, you need to choose a good ballpoint pen that will not stain, that is, will release ink evenly from the refill. If the desired drawing should consist of lines of equal brightness and almost indistinguishable width, then use a gel pen. If you need halftones and the ability to vary the color intensity, then it is better to choose a ballpoint pen with regular ink.

When using a self-writing pen (that’s what a ballpoint pen was called when it was first invented) for drawing, keep in mind that ink consumption will be more intense than when writing, which means you need to prepare extra pens. One painting can use 3 to 4 standard ink refills.

And the most important thing. An ink pen, unlike a pencil, does not allow mistakes; all strokes, lines and dots must be applied confidently and accurately, because the ink on the paper remains forever and cannot be corrected.

In addition, when using a ballpoint pen for drawing, you need to be extremely careful: the ink does not dry immediately, so if you accidentally press your palm or finger into fresh lines, it is easy to smudge them or leave your mark. The technology is not as simple as it seemed in school lessons.

Now let's look at the masterpieces produced by masters who are fluent in this technique.

English artist Andrea Joseph draws directly on notebook sheets, which is very reminiscent school creativity and sketches for cartoons or children's books.

Lucas Salgado from the Argentine city of Santa Fe draws his girls with a ballpoint pen without any special art education. This is what talent means, which can manifest itself even from simple ink lines.

Samuel Silva, a lawyer from Portugal, draws colorful ballon pictures of incredible realism and vividness that reflect not only all the shades of nature, light and shadow, the entire universe, but also all shades of emotion, volume and shape as if they were bright, accurate color photographs.

Abadidabou Sarah Esteje, a French artist who is a designer by profession and enjoys photography, creates stunningly realistic animal pictures using a blue ballpoint pen. Portraits also appeared among her works.

Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz spanish artist Born in La Carolina, Juan has a professional art education. One day he took an ordinary blue ballpoint pen and sketched a comic portrait in ink. This activity fascinated the young Spaniard so much that he created dozens of sketches of people in shades of blue ink, which in terms of the accuracy of their depiction of nature cannot be distinguished from photographs. Among these sketches there are many sensual and even erotic images of girls who happily become models for the original artist.

Chinese artist Zhuge Qingjia also draws only with a ballpoint pen, carefully drawing even the smallest details.

Tim Jeffs, a remarkable animal artist from the United States of America, depicts portraits of animals on paper, painted in the finest detail, and uses a ballpoint pen and black ink.

Extraordinary creativity, which can be classified as graphic realism, has enough followers and admirers and cannot but attract attention.

Zentangle - simple and interesting way creating beautiful graphic images using repeating elements and ornaments. Almost anyone can use it. This activity develops attention and Creative skills, and also perfectly lifts the mood. Zentangle is a method known throughout the world; it is used by people of different ages and with different interests.

This technique does not require complex materials. For work you will need paper, pencil (for the initial drawing) and black gel pen (liner).

Liners - these are pens, but with water-based ink, so they can draw fine, beautiful line. They are convenient because there are liners of different thicknesses on sale. Thin lines are suitable for detailed drawings, bold ones for large planes. Liners are sold at any office supply store.

The advantage of the Zentangle technique is that you don’t have to be afraid of making a mistake and making an uneven line. So you have a great opportunity to draw right away without a pencil.

To make it easier for you to learn the Zentangle technique, I will add several ornaments that you can use in your drawings. I came up with most of them myself.

Do you want to create a small masterpiece using the Zentangle technique? Then let's go! Today we are drawing animals.

How to draw a fish using the Zentangle technique

1. First of all, let's think about placing the fish on the paper. We use light planes (ovals) to denote the body, tail and fins of the future fish.

2. Now we clarify the contour of the fish’s body, draw the fins and tail. At this stage, you can finish drawing the fish’s face: plump lips and eyes.

3. The fish is ready! Isn't it so difficult? Now use lines to divide the body, fins and tail of the fish into strips. Why, you ask? Each of these strips will have a special ornament - you can come up with it yourself, or choose it from my examples.

4. When the pencil drawing is completely ready, trace the outline with a black pen or liner. After this, you can safely start coloring the fish using the Zentangle technique. Let's start with the smallest fin. Decorate each strip with a different original ornament.

Pay attention! It is not at all necessary to exactly repeat the ornaments that I drew. Add originality and your own personality to the drawing. You can change the order of ornaments, come up with your own, etc.

It is important to know! Some patterns may be repeated several times-that's even good.

Pay attention! Some patterns can be made darker, while others-lighter. This difference is possible due to different densities, or line thicknesses. It is important to alternate light and dark patterns for contrast so that the design does not turn out too light or dark.

6. If the fins and tail are ready, proceed to drawing the body of the fish. Decorate each strip with an exclusive ornament!

Advice. Don’t be afraid to fantasize and make mistakes, this gives your work a special personality. Try to draw all the ornaments without a pencil, just with a black pen, so you will gain courage in drawing and quickly develop your creative abilities.

7. At this stage we move on to the face. Make it a little lighter than the body and fins - then the border of the body and face will be clearly visible.

8. Congratulations! You have mastered Zentangle for beginners perfectly. The fish is ready! Now you can complete the details of the environment: air bubbles in the water, algae, sand and stones. Don’t forget that the background must also be made using this technique for the picture to look harmonious.

How to draw an owl using the Zentangle technique step by step

1. First of all, on clean paper, lightly mark a circle that will be the owl’s body. Divide the circle with two auxiliary lines: the middle line of the body and the line of the eyes. These lines will help you better navigate the drawing.

2. Draw the outline of the bird’s body: slightly narrowed at the top, wide in the middle and very narrow at the bottom. Draw a triangular tail with a rounded tip at the bottom and small ears on the head, a little like horns.

3. At this stage we move on to drawing the face. Draw the owl huge round eyes so that she can see well at night, and a triangular beak between the eyes. Don't forget the wings. Mark lightly where they will be located on the right and left sides.

4. At this stage, draw the wings in detail, highlighting three planes in them, similar to feathers. Also add feathers on the tail and ears. Don't forget about little paws. Draw a twig for the owl so that she has something to sit on.

5. Now all that's left to do is add the details. Select the area of the face around the eyes and beak. And in the other part of the body, which will be the body, draw semicircular feathers.

6. Now trace the outline with a black pen or liner and move on to the ornaments. I started drawing the owl from its wings and ears.

7. Now you can draw feathers on the tail and eyes. Make the small pupil darker and add a light ornament around it. For example, for the eyes I chose lines with a circle at the end - such an ornament is somewhat reminiscent of natural ornaments in human eyes.

Make the lines near the pupils a little thicker and darker to highlight your eyes well. And the closer to the edge, the more you leave the paper white. Also paint the beak.

8. At this stage, paint the feathers of the body. There are a lot of them, so you will have to try. But the result is worth it. Don't forget that you can use your own ornaments.

9. The drawing is almost ready! All that remains is to finish the ornaments near the eyes. Make them lighter than the body feathers. However, near the eyes, let the lines be thicker and darker, this will highlight their outline well.

Congratulations! The owl is completely ready! All that remains is to decorate the branch and draw fantastic leaves.

Drawing with gel pens – interesting activity. It does not require any special artistic talents or skills; only perseverance and precision of movements are important. And the drawings turn out interesting.

Drawing theme: “Cat under the stars.” We were planning a simple cat, but after looking at the result, we concluded: the cat, of course, is not simple, but fabulous. This drawing is even for a preschooler preparatory group Can't handle it alone. Our cat under the stars was drawn by an adult and a 6.5 year old child. And for schoolchildren, the picture, if performed independently, is quite within their capabilities.

How and on what to draw with gel pens, where to start, you can read in detail in this article. So…

Drawing of a cat with black gel pen

The cat will be black and white, but if desired, it can be easily colored with colored pens or markers.

Sequence of work

1. Draw a sketch with a simple hard pencil with a thin line, without pressing or leaving grooves on the paper. The pencil is erased after drawing is completed. The sketch shows the main details of the drawing: a sleeping cat, a bird, a tree sprout, the sun and the moon. We'll add stars later. As you can see, all the figures are stylized. Anyone can portray any of them.

2. Outline the main details of the drawing in black gel pen. The usual sequence is from top to bottom, so as not to smudge undried lines. In our drawing it is broken, since we really wanted to decorate the cat first. This is not important for those who draw in the right hemisphere way. We simply turned the picture upside down and continued working. The muzzle and paws with claws are drawn. You can come up with whatever patterns you want. The question arose: why are the moon and the sun present at the same time? This is understandable: the country is fabulous. We wanted to draw a tree, but it turned out to be a sprout to reduce the amount of work for the child.

3. We continue to decorate the cat and the tree. The tree will look better if you draw circles instead of dots. Our leaf circles turned out to be small, more like dots, which is what we turned them into.

4. The painting must be limited in space by a frame. We took the simplest zigzag, supplemented with dots inside and outside. We close the corners of the picture with arcs. The artist Dmitry Rybin, who is engaged in “energy” drawing, claims that energy leaves the picture through the corners. Let's draw starry sky. The stars are large, 6-7 rays.

5. In the real sky there are stars of different sizes. We do the same, so we add small stars like snowflakes from three crossed lines. Even smaller stars can be scattered throughout the remaining unoccupied surface. Draw them with dots. Our picture is quite light and transparent. And if you put star dots with a black gel pen, then it will be night without any coloring.

The picture is ready. When drawing with gel pens, you must ensure that even the most small dots and the details did not overlap each other and did not merge. All the irregularities, mistakes that make children's drawing(and not only for children) are less important. They somehow hide behind the quantity small parts. From what seems to be crooked and lopsided, something very cute turns out.

Tattoos are a great way to highlight your individuality. In ancient times, people applied to themselves colorful drawings to emphasize your importance.

Now the images are on the skin they don’t talk about wildness and many resort to such decorations.

Not everyone has the determination to leave a drawing for a long time. Some consider this step too responsible, some are not allowed to do this by their official position, others are afraid of pain.

In addition, removing such a tattoo is quite problematic and expensive. A possible solution is to apply temporary tattoos.

Imaging technology A blue or black gel pen allows you to create a design that is as similar as possible to a real tattoo.

At the same time avoiding dangers and providing for the possibility of quick removal.

Compliance with safety precautions, can a tattoo with a pen cause allergies?

With this method of application, the design is simply applied to the skin, it can also be fixed with minor punctures with a thin needle.

Do not be afraid of this, because the shallow depth of impact does not pose a serious danger. Some risks still exist.

To ensure safety rules when performing such a tattoo, the following is required:

Shave place of drawing.
Process thoroughly area of skin with a disinfectant.
Pick up as thin a needle as possible and disinfect it.
Use funds personal protection(sterile cotton wool, gloves, etc.).

Regarding possible allergic reaction, then it is very unlikely, because the needle pierces the skin to a very insignificant depth.

To ensure normal ink transferability, a small area in an inconspicuous place is processed.

If after a while itching appears and the skin turns red, it means that your body does not tolerate this particular paint well and you need to choose other materials, or abandon the idea altogether.

Which design to choose: mini tattoos, images, inscriptions, hieroglyphs. Simple sketches for DIY

Most simple pictures, available for beginners, look like mini tattoos:

Hieroglyphs.
Small birds.
Texts.
Ornaments.
Simple natural components (leaves, branches).

The tattoo can be a ring on a finger - it looks very interesting.

For simple tattoo application you can use a template. It is first applied to the skin, after which the design is embossed.

Let's look at how to draw a tattoo with a pen. In this case you need to use:

Black gel ballpoint pen.
Finely sharpened simple pencil.
Parchment, tracing paper.
Vatu.
Scissors.
Wet wipes or cloth.
Gel or mousse to fix hairstyle.
Alcohol-containing liquid.
Disinfectant.

First you need to choose or come up with a drawing. For teenagers it could be skulls, cars, cool patterns.

For girls, you can get a tattoo of small birds on your arm, beautiful flowers, intricate figures. For more respectable men or women, this could be some kind of memorial inscription.

Drawings should be easy to implement. They are designed to reflect the character and emotions of the owner.

If you don’t have enough imagination for the image, you can copy it from the Internet or any magazine.

The picture is selected. Now you should put his sketches on tracing paper or parchment using a sharply sharpened pencil.

Use a gel pen to carefully paint the patterns inside. This must be done very carefully so that the paint does not go beyond the boundaries.

Now the most important thing is to determine the location of the tattoo. If you do it to yourself, it should be in an accessible place, for example, on your leg or wrist. If you have help, you can experiment.

The selected area must be thoroughly treated with alcohol. Now all that’s left to do is take a damp napkin or cloth soaked in heated water and spread it over the tracing paper with the layout.

The fabric is then pressed firmly against the body and held for at least a minute without moving. After this time, a small piece of tracing paper is carefully removed to check whether the drawing has been transferred.

If this does not happen, the cloth must be kept for some more time. If the image brightness is insufficient, you need to apply the top layer with a gel pen.

To make the tattoo last longer and not wear off, it can be fixed using a spray to fix the hairstyle, having previously disinfected the skin. Temporary tattoo is ready.

To apply a long-term tattoo you will need:

Black gel pen.
Needle.
Cotton swabs.
Disinfectant.
Alcohol solution.

Let's look at the execution procedure step by step:

A drawing is selected. The place where it is applied is processed.
Image is superimposed in the form of an outline. To do this, you can use tracing paper or a black cosmetic pencil.
The contours must be applied very carefully: In case of any inaccuracies, the edges are erased.
Not everyone can intentionally hurt themselves. For this procedure, you can ask a friend with strong nerves for help.
The needle is treated with alcohol, then carefully, making small shallow holes, the image is applied step by step. For this purpose, you can use a special machine.
If the procedure is performed for the first time, It is advisable to choose the easiest pattern.
The filled dots are painted over with a gel pen. Wait a couple of minutes and carefully remove excess paint.
The resulting wound is well disinfected. To be sure, you can treat the tattoo with a fixing spray, but this is not necessary. The work is ready.

Important! You should wait several hours: do not wet or rub the treated area.

Over time, a crust may form - do not tear it off under any circumstances, let the wound heal! It’s still better for girls to limit themselves to temporary tattoos.

How long does a drawn tattoo last?

The shelf life of a tattoo depends on the technique used to apply it:

A drawing applied with high-quality paint, in compliance with all requirements, will remain unchanged for a long time.

At what age can children get tattoos with a pen?

According to legislative norms, it is allowed to apply tattoos on the body to children at least 14 years old, and only with the written permission of their parents. This requirement also applies to temporary tattoos.

At the age of 10, you can make small temporary drawings without leaving home.

Federal Guardianship Service pays great attention to the moral character of children, therefore responsibility for breaking the rules rests with the parents.

Useful video

Who wants it?
Drawing and ink from scratch

I will start this post with “wanting”, because in the matter of acquiring the ability to draw with a pen/pen, personal desire is even more important than talent and thin. skills.
Typically, drawing in any other technique begins with pencil construction, corrections, possibly changing the composition in the process, and therefore active use. In general, no one bothers you to make a pencil drawing according to all the rules for drawing with a pen/pen, but this post is just about how to learn to do without it.

First of all, those who want to learn how to draw “without an eraser” should have patience, a small amount of time (but every day!) and a lot of desire. Why do I attach such importance to desire? Because very often, especially at first, you will be disappointed in your work, and as a result, in yourself, in your skills, and only desire will prevent you from throwing this whole thing out of your hands and deciding that you can do it without this skill. live in peace.
Below, I will show some techniques that will help you get a normal result, and also give examples of mistakes and unsuccessful jobs that you should not be afraid of. I hope all this will help maintain the desire to learn and prevent feelings of inferiority from appearing =)

So, the tools:
Pens. You can draw ballpoint pens, gel, something else. I prefer to draw with either ink or liners.
I had to draw with reusable “Uni pin” fine line liners, but apparently, either they are for smoother paper, or we did not agree with them in Feng Shui, but their rod wears out faster than the refill runs out. We only refilled them once, and that was when Leo was writing in his notebook and not drawing. Perhaps they are not erased, and the rod moves away from the body when pressed, but for some reason I didn’t have to notice any special brutality in myself during the drawing process. The most popular sizes are 01 and 02, sometimes I use 03, but that’s when I don’t have 02, and very rarely 005 for particularly small details, when I even decide to draw them.

Liners from Faber Castell are very similar to “Uni pin”, one of the series even has the same cases, only the inscription is different (I don’t have them now, so the photo is from a different series)

But most of all I like Centropen liners. Although they are one and a half times cheaper than "Uni pin" and two times cheaper than "Faber Castell", they are in no way inferior in quality and the rod does not disappear anywhere. The only difference is that they are disposable, but considering the fact that the rest are thrown away before refilling, the savings are not bad.

Paper. Unlike, it’s most convenient for me to draw with a pen in notebooks - all the waste paper is together, it doesn’t get lost anywhere and is always at hand. For works and ink I use, and for liners I have a cheap Chinese notebook with paper of average quality, so that it would not be a pity, because the paper goes out in reams, and the drawings there, for the most part, are not the kind that you should be proud of right now.

The paper is grayish, with a density of 98 g/m2, which is quite enough for double-sided drawings.
When I've copied this notebook, I'll switch to good ones with white beautiful paper and pleasant bindings that have been waiting for me for a long time =)

Now we take the tools in our hands and start drawing. Basic rules/tips:
1. draw anything: objects on the table, furniture in the room, chandelier, interior, view from the window, flowers on the windowsill, etc. or from photographs (animals, birds, people, but don’t get too carried away with photographs)
2. draw without construction as it turns out: clumsily, with errors, extra lines, compositionally incorrect, etc.
3. at first it is better to take a thinner pen so as not to blacken too much
4. lines need to be drawn quickly, without trembling over every millimeter
5. every day. Even the busiest person can find 10-15, even 30 minutes of time and devote it to drawing; everything else is excuses and lack of that very desire. Leo knows very well and first-hand what deadly busyness is (1 job, 2 hack jobs, full-time study + diploma - and Leo had this). Therefore, I ask you not to write to me in PM and comments, saying, “I would love to, but there is no time,” there is simply no desire and there is laziness, and there is no need or point in notifying me about this.
6. Before evaluating the result of your work, you need to copy 100 pages, no less. I now have 101 pages copied, I draw on both sides of the sheet, fortunately the thickness of the paper allows it, but there is no point in putting each such work in a frame. Many pages have 2-3 small drawings.

How to make your life easier at first:
You can build a drawing with dots. Actually, construction is more in the mind than on paper, but putting an end to some key location, create a visual support for ourselves

Connecting the dots

Now you can tint and detail, but in sketches of this type, this is unnecessary. Here it is important to convey shape, movement, and somewhere to emphasize the volume with a careless touch.
I have no more than 10 completed works in my entire notebook.

Most often my ducks look like this

The main mistakes that will definitely be:
Problems with the composition, crawling out of the sheet or too much space from some edge. To avoid this, you can at the very beginning mark the extreme points of the object, at least by eye

Disproportionality (it turned out to be a very beaked duck). Heals with time and practice

Incorrect perspective, general clumsiness (here the perspective is lame on all four legs, the verticals are generally gloomy)

The jar of honey has gone crazy

What is necessary and useful to draw:
Interior - no matter where you live, you can always draw what it looks like without even getting up from the sofa/chair/armchair/bed

All sorts of items household appliances, dishes and so on (above there was a meat grinder - this is the most brutal, especially in different angles).
Just a box

If you have one, you can draw a pet from different angles when it is static (you also need to draw it in dynamics, but this is more difficult and later)

It is good to draw indoor plants in such a way as to convey their volume and make the appearance of the plant clear.
Leo's houseplant is an oak tree, it's so obvious =)

Who indoor plants no, don’t be lazy and buy some flower, put it in a vase/glass and draw

It is also very useful to draw somewhere during a walk - we find a bench/stump, sit down and draw the first thing that catches our eye.
It is not necessary to draw every leaf, the most important thing is to convey the impression, the volume

Or you can draw it if the object is piecemeal

A good subject for drawing is any stone. It is necessary to repeat the shape, convey the texture and not lose the volume (Leo still loses it from time to time)

Drawing from photographs.
Also good, but in moderation and quickly. Open the photo, spend 5-7 minutes on it and move on to the next one

This way you can draw something that is not found in Everyday life, all kinds of animals and birds.

Leo likes to take photographs of ducks in Vinnitsa and somewhere on ponds, and then draw them in the evenings

The black and red musk duck drake was so beautiful that Leo couldn’t resist going into details

In general, nothing difficult if you regularly devote time to practice.
Good luck and best wishes to everyone who is interested! =)