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 ...

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 ...

but because if he used only one pen the whole time, the nib would start bleeding from the constant friction. That's how much intensity creating these portraits requires. Intensity, and a lot of skill.

The little blurry lines, the hazy textures, the portrait-like feel, it was all a whiff of fresh air in the art world. And Impressionism continues to be a beautiful art medium that mesmerises ...

Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil' is based on an intimate interview given by the legendary yet troubled musician two years before ...

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the ...

Scattered throughout “The Frindle Files” are Brian Selznick’s charming ballpoint pen illustrations: portraits of the main characters and oodles of drawings of pens. For readers unfamiliar ...

JACQUELINE SUOWARI is an acclaimed Nigerian artist renowned for her intricate ballpoint pen portraits and mixed media works. She debuts her new solo exhibition in London, titled Adorn ...

And then there’s The Redhead Project. Since February 2013, photographer Keith Barraclough has been taking portraits of redheaded people across the United States. With the help of his wife ...

People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid. Either can be made with or without your subject's awareness and cooperation. However near or far your subject, however intimate or ...

Stephen Mangan launches a new search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and ...