{"id":803,"date":"2009-05-11T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=803"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:42:44","slug":"bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/05\/bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilaterally Symmetrical, Ball Point &#038; Body Types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video is amazing and completely captivating to watch!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pyjHx6QmsE0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m a &#8220;visual artist&#8221; drawing what I actually see, I have a hard time drawing from my imagination and especially quickly. Trust me, you don&#8217;t want me on your Pictionary team. Everything here is in this guy&#8217;s head that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so enthralled. Plus, since he&#8217;s ambidextrous, he can do it simultaneously with two hands in complete symmetry. I like the taped-on pens as a drawing prosthetic. It might be an out of the box exercise to try, just don&#8217;t call me when I&#8217;m trying it.<\/p>\n<p>These large scale ball point pen drawings by <a title=\"http:\/\/www.juanfranciscocasas.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juanfranciscocasas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Franciso Casas<\/a> as seen on <a title=\"Crooked Brains Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbrains.net\/2008\/09\/ballpoint-pen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crooked Brains<\/a> are fantastic. It&#8217;s interesting that the comments posted mention his talent but don&#8217;t get why he&#8217;s &#8220;mimicking&#8221; his photos. I see not only the skill but the subject poses and composition as being artistic. Also, to be able to render the photo portraits large scale in an unforgiving, hard-edged medium as a ball point pen, with such precision and softness, gives a look more of graphite, which cannot be rendered the same in photography or replicated with just a print.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-804\" title=\"Juan Francisco Casas Ball Point Pen Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Francisco Casas Ball Point Pen Portrait\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/5-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good knowledge of anatomy and body types is discussed by Joumana Medleg on <a title=\"Guide to Human Body Types\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarseed.com\/fire\/humantypes2.html\" target=\"_blank\">cedarseed.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is amazing and completely captivating to watch! Since I&#8217;m a &#8220;visual artist&#8221; drawing what I actually see, I have a hard time drawing from my imagination and especially quickly. Trust me, you don&#8217;t want me on your Pictionary team. Everything here is in this guy&#8217;s head that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so enthralled. Plus, since he&#8217;s ambidextrous, he can do it simultaneously with two hands in complete symmetry. I like the taped-on pens as a drawing prosthetic. It might be an out of the box exercise to try, just don&#8217;t call me when I&#8217;m trying it. These large scale ball point pen drawings by Juan Franciso Casas as seen on Crooked Brains are fantastic. It&#8217;s interesting that the comments posted mention his talent but don&#8217;t get why he&#8217;s &#8220;mimicking&#8221; his photos. I see not only the skill but the subject poses and composition as being artistic. Also, to be able to render the photo portraits large scale in an unforgiving, hard-edged medium as a ball point pen, with such precision and softness, gives a look more of graphite, which cannot be rendered the same in photography or replicated with just a print. A good knowledge of anatomy and body types is discussed by Joumana Medleg on cedarseed.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,53,15,6,1],"tags":[558,557,556,555],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-creative-process","category-illustration","category-inspiration","category-uncategorized","tag-anatomy","tag-ball-point-pen-art","tag-bilateral-symmetric-drawing","tag-juan-francisco-casas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bilaterally Symmetrical<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bilaterally Symmetrical Illustration and ball point and body types featured on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/05\/bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bilaterally Symmetrical\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bilaterally Symmetrical Illustration and ball point and body types featured on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/05\/bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-11T12:10:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T19:42:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/5.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/bilaterally-symmetrical-ball-point-body-types\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Bilaterally Symmetrical, Ball Point &#038; 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