Learn how a simple ballpoint pen can be used to create artistic masterpieces! This book takes you through a journey - to discover and explore the ballpoint pen as a serious medium of art.
Written by Shirish Deshpande, this monograph details the nuances of texture, pressure control, and cross-hatching that turn a mundane office tool into an instrument of high art.
“The ballpoint pen is perhaps the most honest medium; there is no erasing, only the commitment of the stroke.”
— Shirish Deshpande
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Thirty years, one ordinary pen.
Every technique in the book comes from the studio — thousands of translucent layers, no erasing, no revisions. It is a slow, deliberate way of drawing, and the book is a patient guide to it.
The author
Shirish Deshpande
Shirish Deshpande is an internationally acclaimed ballpoint pen artist based in Belgaum, India. For over three decades, he has dedicated his life to proving that masterpieces don't require expensive tools — only vision and relentless discipline.