#darkmasterofdragons

[darkmasterofdragons]

Inverted ballpoint pen drawing!! The first picture is what I drew and the second picture is the inverted final piece

[crippled-peeper]

Wanted to share this photo of me (disabled trans man) and my disabled elderly rescue iguana basking together in the sun from last summer! Her name is Darwin, she's 15 years old <3 Hope it brings you some happiness today :))

YOU ARE SO COOL OMG hiiii

Darwin is sooo cute ☺️ she looks so happy awww

This brings me great happiness :) Thank you for introducing yourself to me

[darkmasterofdragons]

New inverted ballpoint pen drawing just dropped!! The first picture is what I drew, and the second picture is the inverted final!!

Inspired by and referenced from this stunning photograph by @mjiskindacool that I came across about a month ago!! Thanks so much for letting me reference your work :))

[darkmasterofdragons]

Wanted to share some more art I just haven't uploaded from last year! Really enjoyed doing these feline studies, dozens of hours of unseen research went into each on top of the many hours it took to draw 😵

Also shout to my cat Ezra who I snuck into the Felis study to represent the domestic cat hehe :3c

[darkmasterofdragons]

Wow first of all I'd just like to say thank you for all the love I got on this inverted ballpoint pen piece in the last few days!! 🥺

I got the inevitable wave of people asking me how I made it and lucky for y'all I had to take a lot of progress pictures to make this so I'm making a post about how I drew this!

See more under the cut!

Starting off of course we have the sketch of our subject in pencil

Then, following the inverted version of my reference image I slowly start building up layers of inverted colour. What I'm drawing irl is on the left, and the inverted version of that is on the right.

You can tell I was nervous at first not wanting to mess it up lol

This piece really helped me grasp the importance of undertones in a way I never have before

Here I started getting Really excited about how it was gonna turn out I couldn't believe I was making this with my own 2 hands

Believe it or not working in inverted colours with ballpoint pen is actually 10x easier than working in normal colours because with ballpoint pen once you've added too much ink you can't undo it you can't make it any lighter, but when you're going to invert the image at the end it's a lot more forgiving because the dark areas become the bright areas when it's inverted!

Don't get me wrong though it took a lot of focus and like brain power to draw in inverted colours, it was like learning how to ride a backwards bicycle, it took all my concentration to not follow my brains natural instincts and muscle memory when it came to creating the colours I wanted to create 😵‍💫

Nearly finished at this point, just needed some colour adjustments

The final check for the colours before I added the finishing touches and scanned the final piece and voila!!

You have an inverted ballpoint pen tiger 🤯 It's really not as hard as it looks, it's just a lot of layering and a lot of patience 🙏🙏

I had like 15 more progress pictures but unfortunately I can only upload 10 pictures in a post so I tried to order them in a way that showed the most key points in my process 😅 If you have any questions feel free to ask I love helping out fellow artists learn new skills!!

[darkmasterofdragons]

Sketch vs Final of a recent painting I did for my best friend for Christmas :) Really proud of this one, Gouache on multimedia paper

[darkmasterofdragons]

Sketch vs Final, Tiger in ballpoint pen on paper

Been practicing drawing in only pen to gain confidence in form, it's been very fun <3

[darkmasterofdragons]

Sketch vs Final, leopard in ballpoint pen (and white acrylic paint) on paper! No pencil sketch