Vermeer with a BiC

in Art | April 29th, 2010 4 Comments

Take  Johannes Vermeer‘s, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and then try to reproduce it with a simple BiC pen. That’s what artist James Mylne does here. In 90 seconds, we see what took him 90 hours to pull off. Here it goes.


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  1. allie912 says . . . | April 30, 2010 / 9:31 pm

    It is wonderful but it sure doesn't look like pen strokes.

  2. Seth Harwood says . . . | May 4, 2010 / 8:58 pm

    Wow!

  3. Izzy says . . . | May 13, 2010 / 10:03 pm

    Hmm, something’s not right. We never see him do any of the shading.

  4. Lucy says . . . | May 28, 2010 / 2:45 pm

    The artist writes about his technique here:
    http://www.birodrawing.co.uk/ballpoint_drawing_tips.html
    It’s amazing. I had a hard time believing it at first but it seems real?

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