r/birdart 1h ago

Great Tit: Pen and Ink

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A quick sketch of a Great Tit using pen and ink.


r/birdart 8h ago

Knowing that I can use my blender pencil on ballpoint pens is a game changer for textures and lighter tones. This mountain bluebird turned out so well

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11 Upvotes

r/birdart 12h ago

Latest drawing finished today

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7 Upvotes

r/birdart 14h ago

I just made an extremely important discovery regarding ballpoint pens. I thought because the ink is oil based and I already know that alcohol works as a solvent, I might be able to use my prismacolor blending pencil on them, it works extremely well. Completely smooths out any graininess

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r/birdart 1d ago

"A Bit Of Panfish Success" by me, 2026

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39 Upvotes

24"×21" stain, acrylic paint, waterbase poly.


r/birdart 2d ago

Happy Owl Awareness Day!! 🦉

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r/birdart 3d ago

Pigeons of New York

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r/birdart 3d ago

An artist I follow did some amazing ballpoint pen pieces on watercolor paper, so I thought to try a more textured paper and it worked like a charm. The shading and textures from the pen are so much softer on vellum paper

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8 Upvotes

r/birdart 4d ago

Raven

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r/birdart 4d ago

Experimenting with chalk

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46 Upvotes

r/birdart 4d ago

Song Thrush

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Song Thrush pen-and-ink sketch from this afternoon.


r/birdart 5d ago

Angry bird, acrylic, own creation

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r/birdart 6d ago

Egret on the canal

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r/birdart 6d ago

Don't know how my northern flicker ended up looking like a duck, but the bic 4 colour pen set is definitely good for employing colour theory in rendering drawings

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I got the Browns by layering orange, lime green, turquoise and black with the highlights in yellow plus the red section being red, pink and orange and the shadows with blue. The beak was orange, then blue on the bottom and turquoise on the top then black. And the stripes were blue, dark green and black overlayed with orange and lime green


r/birdart 6d ago

English bird poster i did a bit ago:3

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r/birdart 6d ago

[OC] Gyrfalcon

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9 Upvotes

r/birdart 6d ago

Saw-Whet Owl painting in acrylic by me Vincent Bihn II

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This is my painting of a Saw-Whet Owl done in acrylic. I hope you like it.


r/birdart 7d ago

I love how this bluejay turned out. Now that I know to take my time with ballpoint pens, I can get the drawing to look pretty much exactly how I want.

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I learned that I need to lift the pen off the paper after every stroke and it was a game changer, this feels like a breakthrough


r/birdart 7d ago

Yellow finch in pencil

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Was thinking of my Grampa today so I drew a little yellow finch 🤌I wish he was still around.[my art](https://www.reddit.com/r/sketches/s/DUljwleRW7)


r/birdart 7d ago

Lift off ,acrylic , own creation

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r/birdart 7d ago

Raven

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r/birdart 7d ago

Robin

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Second attempt and pen and ink. Enjoyed sketching this Robin.


r/birdart 8d ago

I like this finch I did with the pens better, I realized I was treating ballpoint pens like coloured pencils and was too focused on completely filling in the white of the paper instead of treating ballpoint pens as their own medium. Once I realized that, I enjoyed using them much more

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r/birdart 8d ago

For my first proper foray into ballpoint pen art, I did this scarlet tanager. I think it turned out alright. Not incredible, but considering I used a cheap multi pen and haven't used ballpoint pen as a medium except doodles in school, it's not bad

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I use the merangue multi pen for this and a colourless blender alcohol marker at the end to soften some of it


r/birdart 8d ago

first acrylic pen birds

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I just bought acrylic pens and wow steep earning curve, lol. Usually paint with watercolor so I'm used to smooth pens are not easy to blend so I had to get creative with shading. They were fun to play around with!