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“An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.”
-Eduard Hanslick

I love the serene look of a person contemplating, thinking, lost in their thoughts, and with their eyes lost in their thoughts.

Recently, I drew some small sketches with this idea: a person, a girl, contemplating. I really like how they came out, they had that serene look I really like.

Now, the other day that I was at a bookstore, while browsing the art section, I came upon this curious thing: a paperpen, yes that’s right. And as the name says, it is a pen made of paper. Now, I wondered what it was for, so naturally I bought it

Paperpen

I remember how years ago my mother had taught me to use a piece of paper to blend color from color pencils on paper, so using the same idea, I started experimenting with the paperpen on several pencil drawings. After using the paperpen on pencil, the result was a much smoother image, the shadows blended better, and instead of having obvious divisions of light and dark, using the paperpen helped blend that line and give it a better transition, which is rather nice.

Let me illustrate what I mean:

Here is one before the paperpen:

notice the rough lines and shadows. Now, here is the finished one:

Notice the difference?

Here are others I made the same way:

Hope you enjoy them.

Cheers, NM