Ballpoint Portraiture & Illustration
Line by line.A likeness, held still.
I draw people in front of me and the figures in my head almost entirely with ballpoint pen, building them up line by line until a true likeness settles on the page.
Featured Piece
Goku
A closer look
Nine pieces, one line at a time.
"An Eternal Embrace"
Spotlight
Every piece starts the same way:a blank page and too much ink.
Cross-hatching builds slowly. A face takes thousands of small, deliberate strokes before it holds still on the page. There's no undo with a ballpoint pen, only more ink and more patience.
That discipline carries across everything here: portraits built line by line, fan art rendered with the same obsessive care and the occasional piece, like this one, built purely to say something.
I'm currently open to a limited number of commissions. If you'd like a portrait of yourself, someone you love or a character, get in touch and we'll talk it through.
About the artist
I draw people in front of me and the figures in my head almost entirely with ballpoint pen, building them up line by line until a true likeness settles on the page.
Leonard Jombo
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