Crasio

I haven't done many drawings with regular pens, either ball point or felt tip. Either I was young and and didn't have access to them or was older and was using bottled inks and more exotic writing utensils. When I was a kid in the 70s my friends and I drew with pencils and ball point pens that were everywhere. In the mid 70s it seemed the felt tip pen was introduced. The Bic 'Banana' made the biggest impact as it was advertised with funny commercials featuring Mel Brooks and Charles Nelson Reiley YouTube. I colored many early drawing with these pens until they went dry. At this point I went on to better materials. Around 1980 I discovered

While deviantART struggles to get the Gallery to work I've made a list of all my posted art: Deviations  Veronica Karecova  Don't Call Me Shirley  Karecova Advanced Galaxina  Sharkara Under Wraps  Dorothy Stratten Harlequin  Shakara Ledard  Terry Farrell 40 Percent Gray  Yamila Diaz Reclining  Kim Flux  Stacey Williams 34  Stacey Williams 35  Vicki Vale  Guess Ad Jennifer Lopez In Silver Archer Agutter Jessica's Blinking Speech Slave Girl Bono as Mr MacPhisto Lisa Ling Scraps  Terry Farrell Positive  Terry Farrell Negative  Terry Wells  Graphite on Black

I often work on black (paper or  gesso), which is fun, and easy to the get the highlights right, but the shadows are difficult. Working on white has the opposite problem, the shadows are easy but the highlights are difficult. I got this bright idea: I would do my pencil drawing like usual and not worry the highlights. When I was finished I cut a piece of tracing paper and taped it over the drawing. Then I penciled in the highlights, but in reverse- like a negative. I should have taken more care cutting the tracing paper because it made it more difficult to get the alignment right when I scanned both drawings. Over the original pencil 'pos