Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw lines without lifting off or scratching the paper. We can’t help ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

You've probably doodled with one of these in class: a blue Bic pen. But when Oscar Ukonu uses ... Hatching is a common artists' technique used in drawing to create tones and shading using closely ...

Ballpoint pen is artist Mike Nudelman's instrument of choice. The Santa Fe-based artist has worked with ballpoint pen on paper over the last decade. His works will be featured in the show "Yet Again" ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...