# Total beginner in pen and ink

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**Category:** Share Your Art\
**Created:** [December 7, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/total-beginner-in-pen-and-ink/500 "2019-12-07T18:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/maki/32/77_2.png) [@Maki](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Maki)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/total-beginner-in-pen-and-ink/500/5 "2019-12-08T03:22:15Z")

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Hi Teresa,  
I think this is a great work and I do understand how hard to deal with the “textures” of trees. I introduced some tree pen drawings in the following link, which I suspect may be of some help.

> [@Drawing different types of trees](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-different-types-of-trees/472):
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> Trees are really beautiful. It is fun to draw trees with pastels, but drawing trees with a pen appears to be more interesting as I need to figure out how to express the details of different types of trees using only lines. They are all drawn using a 0.7mm ballpoint pen.

But I used a ballpoint pen to draw these trees so I guess the control of the device was much easier compared to other types of pens.  
Hope this helps 🍻

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