Ball Point Pen Portraits Back in the 1980s I was drawing in a sketchbook with regular black ball point pens. The cool thing about ball point pens is it isn't all or nothing like my Copic ink pens are. I could press soft and get a soft line or hard to get a more solid line. I am not in contact with any of these people any longer. I often wonder what they look like now and think it would be fun to go back and draw them 30-40 years later!