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Ballpoint Art Pack: Creative Techniques and Explorations for Drawing with an Everyday Pen – A Book and Sketch Pad

Grab a pen and explore hours of masterful and intricate art anywhere!

Now in an all-new format, the creative technique exercises from The Art of Ballpoint by illustrator Matt Rota are reconfigured into this useful art pack which includes an informational book and companion sketchpad featuring prompts and drawings to get you started.

Ballpoint Art Pack includes a wide range of ballpoint techniques that demonstrate line drawing and crosshatching, shading and tone, photo-realism, drawing texture and pattern, working in layers, and mixing media with ballpoint. Glide through this inspiring book and enjoy the intricate and impressive works created from an everyday tool.

The List of Exercises Includes:

– Types of Shading

– Volume with crosshatching

– Creating an even field of marks

– Scribble

– Responding to an organic process

– Blending color

– Gradients with marks

– Line shape and pattern

– Drawing on toned paper

– Graphic color

– Contour Drawing

– Creating a light source

– Shading with watercolor

– Layering ballpoint and acrylic

– Multiple viewpoints of one object

– 360-degree view of room

– One Mark

– Drawing Texture

– Creating a landscape with texture and marks (but no outlines)

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Be Kind to Yourself: Explorations Into Self-Empowerment

Are you kind to yourself? Or do you let negative influence dictate your life and emotions? In this inspiring new book, Gary Null shows that how you treat yourself day to day directly affects your happiness, health, outlook on life, sense of fulfillment, self-respect, and even financial security. This book will help you: direct your emotional energy toward achieving your life goalscreate your own roadmap to excellence, success, security, and happinessbanish the ghosts of the past and focus on the present with an eye toward the futurebecome more satisfied with who you are and what you have nowBy mapping your personal search for well-being, Gary Null puts self-empowerment within reach, and clearly lays out how to stop negativity in your life and start being kind to yourself.