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John Lennon Sketch

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I have six words to say about this one: Damn, it made my arm tired. Suffice to say, this is my first and, at the moment, only successful piece done entirely in ballpoint pen. It took me a hell of a long time to find the image too, as it was from some obscure poster that I've never seen before today. I was listening to the Abbey Road and Rubber Soul albums and suddenly, I had to do it.

I've never done a successful piece of any of the Beatles before. I think the problem was that I'd always tried to draw all four in one picture frame and things would always go wrong. Sure, I could have done the grid, but I much prefer free-handing, so I instead did just one. Perhaps I'll do the others, who knows? Anyway, I hope you like this one :).

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

- John Lennon R.I.P.
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Thanks! Since this one, I went into a ball-point pen phase. I just decided to try it and now I kind of like it better than pencil. It's harder because mistakes = a ruined piece (If you don't have a pen eraser of some kind, which I don't), but I do like the texturing you can get with it, the gradation, crosshatching, and such.