Biro Object Study
Product · Ballpoint · Biro
Recipe
GPT Image
Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.
A single everyday object drawn entirely in blue ballpoint pen on cheap cream paper: all tone built from thousands of small overlapping loops and hatch strokes, the pen skipping in places and pooling ink in others, paper showing through wherever the pressure eased. Nothing else in the frame, no ground line, no background, no colour other than the blue of the pen. Obsessive and hand made.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1280 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Loops rather than straight hatching. That is what says ballpoint.
- 2Skipping and pooling ink stops it looking like a print.
- 3Nothing in the background. The floating object is part of the style.
Things to try
Black biro
the same study in black
Portrait
a face in the same hand
Two colours
red pen added for one element
Looser
far fewer strokes
Lined paper
drawn over a ruled page
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