Biro Drawing.co.uk

This site is meant to serve as an information base about & relating to ballpoint art / drawings. The above image gallery shows drawings done in ballpoint by London artist James Mylne, who set up and runs this web site. The official website for James Mylne is here: jamesmylne.co.uk.
It is possible to buy originals, prints, cards, and t-shirts by Jmaes Mylne, here on this site on the Shop page.

This site hopes to help elevate awareness of a rare art form which deserves more respect and acknowledgement across the art and wider world.
People are often surprised by the quality and realism possible from drawings created by simple ballpoint pens. For any interested artists, the page Technique & Tips offers some useful tips and some insight into the techniqe used by James Mylne in his drawings. James has been using ballpoints for photo-realist drawings (examples in above gallery) since 1994.
For some interesting facts and effects of using ballpoints in art - along with a video showing the creation process and technique of some biro drawings - visit the Ballpoint Art Effects page.

People are using ballpoints in their artwork more than ever & information and links on ballpoint artists from around the world (with galleries submitted by artists to this web site) are listed and linked to, on the Artists page.
Some background info on the site's owner and artist, some blurb, links etc exist here.

This web site is the third version (this went up in July/2008), since it first went up in 2005, with 18,000 visitors inbetween. Hope you enjoy the site and feel free to leave any comments by submitting them in the column to the right.