bic pens were never so nsfw

this was drawn with a blue bic pen!

and so was this!

spanish artist juan francisco casas is seriously blowing my mind with these exquisite ballpoint pen drawings. using up to 14 pens per drawing, casas creates pieces up to 10 feet high and going for up to $6000. not bad when your materials come in packs of 10 for $2.

“I guess it started off as a joke, to try and make something so realistic that people would think is a photo,” Casas said. “For me it’s not that different from painting. I was trying to show that it doesn’t matter what material you use, it’s what you do with it.”

high school me is very jealous, as all i ever figured out what to do with ballpoint pens was to cut them in half and use them to do blow. live and learn, i guess.

from my modern met