@Splig Hey, thanks. It's difficult to directly go on paper with a ballpoint pen. It feels like I'm less at half the skill I can do on computer, or with solid pencil fondation guidelines. But if you look closely I often use a white correction pen (especially when a line really waste a face (eg. on the saxophonist, on same double page than the pen test); and I often roll the ballpen point very tilted to get extra thin line and draw a silhouette prior to darken lines. It's a hard training 😺
@davidrevoy ive never thought to keep a correction pen handy :0
but ya ive also only used ball point pens in my sketchbooks for p much my whole adult life (tho i never post anything .-.)
i like the way you described the sneaky sketch method; zebra pens are my fav in that regard...
lately ive switched to fountain and brush pens, which makes it even harder to grapple with the inevitable busted ass sketch lmao