Draw it better #12 contest entry Sunflower theme: Ballpen Art

[jacinta.sevilla]

Let's draw some sunflowers🌻

Presenting my entry to the contest! Here's a Sunflower drawing I made with colored ballpens.

Sometimes not having enough art materials leaves you no choice but to get creative!

_{A scan of my Sunflower drawing}

Sunflowers are beautiful, and they're yellow, my favorite color!
🌻 Sunflowers turn toward the direction of the sun
🌻 Their yellow petals look like the suns rays
🌻 They will always be bright and cheery ready for sad days

I used to plant sunflowers before as a hobby when I was 10. I love how I see them grow and bloom. ☝️♥️🌻

Materials:
🖊️Any kind of paper
🖊️Titus colored ballpens
Yellow
Orange
Brown
Red
Green
Black
Purple

The Process 👩‍🎨

The proces is simply using crosshatching and scribbles. I didn't sketch the flower anymore, I drew the ballpen directly onto the paper.
Just be careful not to make mistakes and use a scratch paper to wipe the pooling ink of the pens tip to avoid blotching on your art.

Here are the work in progress photos

_{yellow and orange for petals and green for the leaves}

_{brown for the pollen}

At this point I did not know how to draw such detail so I used line art -
scribble to form texture of the pollen

_{doing the second flower}

_{I use purple to darken spaces in between and in darker areas black, this will give depth and shadow}

Here its as if I'm using the ballpen to slice out a petal from the paper.

Then it is done!

📸 This is my favorite shot

I think it somehow looks realistic. Working with ballpens can be tricky. That must be the reason why I failed to make it hyper realistic. But nonetheless I am happy with the outcome.

🌻THANK YOU FOR READING AND PLEASE ENJOY THE ART ♥️

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Comments

[joxus]

Oh wow, ballpoint pen?! Awesome! That takes serious skill, beautiful work. Upped!! :D

[jacinta.sevilla]

O my thanks for the very nice comment :D
Im glad you like it :D
hehehe its what I was trying to achieve, realism even if its a pen :D

[steemartists]

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[jacinta.sevilla]

Wow Id love to :D Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

[joyjoyharb]

Wow Jazz!!! Sunflower is my new favourite flower now 🌻🌻🌻

[jacinta.sevilla]

yehey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rose and sunflower guro akoa <3

[rajat1802]

what a beautiful drawing with ball pen its awesome i like these pictures. hats off the artist. i salute to the artist @jacinta.sevilla

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thank you so much too! salute!

[rajat1802]

welcome

[roselyn028]

Woah.. such gifted hand! At first sight it looks like it was painted (who would have thought ballpen does it) amazing work @jacinta.sevilla. thanks for sharing.

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thank you so much!
yes as long as the crosshatching is think and you do a lot of strokes then it can look realistic :)
Youre welcome! more to come :)

[amalinavia]

How beautiful it turned out to draw pens! I admire your patience! =)

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thank you so much :)
well if you love what youre drawing the more time you dedicate to it, its more enjoyable :)

[sirsensei]

Heeelllooo! :) Thank you for your post @jacinta.sevilla. I hope you're doing well. Take care and good luck! :)

[jacinta.sevilla]

thanks !!!! see youuuuu!Hi master @sirsensei hahaha :D im doing great :) hope you are too!

[jenpotgb]

Ikaw na jud! hehehe.. So artistic..bisan pag ballpen ra na, lumalaban jud.. two thumbs up! Galing galing siszt! 😄

[jacinta.sevilla]

Salamat kaayoooo 🌻🌻🌻 oo kana na tym nahutdan gyud kog art materials. Naningtiil haha

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[noelaattlee]

Another awesome flower drawings. I'm so into purple right now, I can't stop loving the purple sunflowers. The texture was so well done as well, they make the flowers look lively and pretty.

[jacinta.sevilla]

Awww thank you so much 🌻

[michelleloh168]

Your sunflower looks gorgeous! I like sunflower too! 🌻 I wih i could draw like you. Haha looking forward for your next flower drawing post!

[jacinta.sevilla]

Oh hi there :D <3
thank you so much!
ill definitely draw more flowers. i love em a lot :)

[rideordiestudio]

Woahhh it does look really realistic! I can't believe you didn't sketch it out first, it looks great! It reminds me of those beautiful and memorable illustrations in childrens' books. It's cool that you grew sunflowers - did they grow very tall?

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thanks im glad it looks that way. Well once it grew to be more than 6 inches but i accidentally cut it T.T how stupid of me. I murdered it.
But now id like to try again.
Hehehe

[rcupido21]

Good day Dear friend, I like lot your drawing for the contest. luck and achievements. account with my support.

[rcupido21]

Hello, very but very beautiful drawing for the contest. you congratulate enormente @jacinta.sevilla.

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thank you very much!

[enmaart]

i love your sunflowers. the colours are amazing

[jacinta.sevilla]

Thank you so much! Keep art alive! Keep drawing!

[karlosuno]

Wow nice ballpen lang pala I thought colored pencil at first glance.

[jacinta.sevilla]

Salamat po :) hehe new techniques

[poonamsingh]

They are looking so real