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.
Vermeer with a BiC
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It is wonderful but it sure doesn't look like pen strokes.
Wow!
Hmm, something’s not right. We never see him do any of the shading.
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?