Close up of Biro drawn portrait in black and blue

Close up of Biro drawn portrait in black and blue

As tradition dictates, a couple of close ups

Nik holds an A1 portrait drawn using only triangles with blue and black Bic Biros

New picture: 84,000 triangles, four pens, two colours, three failed attempts, and one brilliant pose from @sputnikboy.bsky.social

Good spot. I thought they were supposed to swap too.

Nik holds a space invader picture made using a mixture of first class and 5p stamps

Wish you’d asked sooner.

Thank you for posing!

Work in progress shot of a portrait being drawn by a pen plotter.

This work in progress shot shows the red underlayer.

Drawing of a male model produced using short vertical lines, drawn using a plotter and rollerball pen

A new portrait of @thenakedbro3.bsky.social who posed a few weeks ago, composed entirely of short vertical lines drawn with a black Pilot rollerball pen. There’s a red layer beneath the black but the match is so close I may as well have not bothered.

They’re all lovely

Close up shot of the lines that make up my fish picture.

As ever, here’s a close-up

386 straightish lines drawn with a blue Pilot rollerball making an image of swimming fish

386 straightish lines drawn with a blue Pilot rollerball

This is lovely.

In that case they’re both lying. No money for either of them.

Kramer poses with a picture of himself that is drawn on A1 paper using Bic Biros.

Here's Kramer holding with one of my drawings of himself. I was lucky enough to meet him earlier this week when he was visiting from the US, so I brought along one of the pictures that he posed for remotely about three years ago. As is often the case it's drawn with two continuous lines on A1 paper.

Artist holding his portrait of a male model drawn using Bic Biros

A drawing of Kramer on A1 paper. This was done with two Bic Biros: one blue and one light blue, each tracing a single unbroken line through thousands of spirals across the page.

Borgen, if you don’t mind subtitles

Detail shot of the vertical lines that make up the portrait in the original post of this thread.

As promised, a close up of the vertical lines that compose this portrait, each drawn using a blue Pilot rollerball pen. Where the lines are really close together they look like they form contiguous blocks.

Portrait of a male model drawn on A2 paper with a Pilot rollerball pen. The image is entirely composed of short vertical lines

A portrait of Jonathan composed of (roughly) 60,000 vertical lines, each drawn using a blue Pilot rollerball pen on A2 paper. Jonathan posed remotely and as with most of my work the image data was all organised on a spreadsheet for processing rather than an image editing app. Close-up to follow...

It’s lovely. Reminds me of one of my old campers.

Street sign banning pigeons during specified hours of the day.

One of your things I like about living here is the street signs.

Of course.

And more Oberon

I did actually put on shorts this morning to cycle into town - but then I only switched from shorts into longs in November.

You’re too kind. Great pose.

Slightly wider detail shot of a portrait drawn using Bic Biros

A slightly wider shot of the same area showing the variety of different spirals that are used to recreate the tones in the portrait. These were each initially drawn by hand on iPad before being reassembled in a spreadsheet.

Close up of spirals drawn using blue and black Bic Biros

I love the way you can see the woven effect of the ink on the ball of the pen in this detail shot from the portrait of @thenakedbro3.bsky.social

Plotted portrait drawn using two unbroken lines with blue and black Bic Biros

A portrait of @thenakedbro3.bsky.social who posed remotely for me a couple of weeks ago. Drawn using two unbroken lines through thousands of spirals - one using a blue Bic Biro and one a black Bic Biro. I'll link a couple of detail shots.

I love all of these. Particularly the two by your mum.

Colchester Abbey (St Johns)

Charcoal sketch of a female life model.

Charcoal sketch of a female life model.

A couple of sketches from last night’s class. Both charcoal on paper.

Don’t they know you shouldn’t put your feet on the seats.