Amazing ballpoint pen drawings

His skill is to be admired although I'm not a fan of photo realism. I feel it's rather cold and unemotional, I quite like daubs of paint if the end result 'speaks' to me.

I agree, butty, that there's something about these drawings that is, to my eye, not quite right, and it is to do with the exactness and almost over-sharpness of details. However, I am truly amazed at the drawing skills. And ballpoint pen is not an easy medium, I should think. You can't paint over your mistakes or rub anything out.

I'd like to see what he could do in oils or watercolours or pastels or charcoal....

Yes, I can see what you mean about respecting Silva's skill, yet there's something about the realism and exactness of his work that I don't like. I wonder what his work is like when (if this is the case) he does not work purely from photos. I suppose I'm saying I like the originality of daubs of paint on canvas - whereas with these it's the medium used that has an originality, not the content. Too much like photos.

Think I'm having a grumpy Sunday morning.