Drawing with a pen

Here's one portrait I did...I found his picture on a newspaper...Took more than an hour I think...didn't keep track of time...I enjoyed drawing this...Gel Ink pen, 0.5 mm.

Sketching and drawing...

Another drawing...

I am learning from my mistakes...mistakes are easy to see in a drawing...I try not to repeat the mistakes...

Brangelina...

Have been drawing with my left hand as well(havent posted any drawings with left hand as yet)...Per week I draw 5 days with my right hand and the other 2 days are for the left hand...Its fun drawing with left hand...When I draw with my left hand I tend to see the picture more clearly with all the lines and shapes in focus...But the problem is to draw them right...the left hand is very new to holding a pencil it falters,makes wavy lines instead of straight...but with practise it should all go away...

Sketching and doodling

I am drawing more and more everyday, I am drawn to it I cant stop myself...I'm doodling like crazy...It's like some door in my head just opened up and all the images that were within are rushing out and I have no time to capture them...I feel very relaxed when I draw...Last night I couldn't sleep 'coz I was doodling late into the night and the ideas wont stop...it kept coming...I wanted to sleep but I could see vivid images,cartoon style and real faces with beautiful light and shadows like painted faces,artistic faces...after a long time I fell asleep...And when I woke up in the morning I started drawing the lady above with aerosmith running on the mp3 player...I was lost...when I stopped drawing I was very hungry...I went and had breakfast...after that I drew some more...I'm not tired of drawing these days looks like my left brain has been totally overpowered by my right side...THis helps with my drawing....

Contour drawing with gel pen 0.5

I just felt very good while drawing this..very meditative and nice...I just let the pen flow along the paper...focused a lot on the picture...did blind contour sometimes...Contour drawing is amazing...

Andrew Loomis Books

Found Andrew Loomis books here,downloaded them all !!!!!

Color.

I called up 2 art schools yesterday one of them doesn't want to take me as I am already a graduate...The other school welcomed me.So I will have to collect the application form around May 2008, there will be an entrance test.


Here's what I did yesterday and today....Trying colors....trying to express myself in lines shapes and color.Coloring without judgement....

The first painting was from imagination...I had this in my mind today as I woke up...I titled it 'DEATH'...There is one moving in anti-clockwise direction suddenly that stops and the next thing we know is its moving clockwise...Death meaning change in existence of a being...that's what I wanted to express and portray.It's me... I was moving in one direction before and very soon everything is going to change...I am going to make it move my way...I am going to choose the way I move...I bring the changes I want to see....

The secong painting is just a portrait i saw on a local newspaper and painted it my way...It does not resemble the original in any way.

Pencil drawing is my favourite as I am very commfortable with pencils and other drawing media.


http://www.wonderingmind.net/e-books/ec-wm_intro2.htm I found this e-book on creativity and art...I am reading it.

Drawing everyday is fun....

Johnny Depp and the other one was supposed to be Beckham lady it turned out to be someone else...But she looks good :-))))

I try not to use an eraser and learn from my mistakes...It gets easier everytime...Use a pen thats the best option,one can never erase at all.

Drawing feels like meditation,it calms me down and seems to transport me somewhere else ! Totally unaware of the passage of time...Beautiful state of mind...I call this active meditation where I get completely involved and lost at the same time...Just beautiful !!! I sent an E-mail to Dr.Betty Edwards conveying my gratitude to her for her book which opened me up completely...

I was good at contours right from my childhood...but which helped me the most is negative spaces and light and shadow chapters.I pushed myself ahead,I stopped drawing for a while...got lazy and then totally forgot about drawing for some months...Then I see people drawing everyday,painting everyday...That inspired me...I thought if these people can do it then why not me ? If an artist has drawn something extraordinarily beautiful it makes me think how did that person get to that level...How much of effort was put into it ? For how many hours did the person get lost ? I have read in forums where some artists draw all day(one piece).That makes me think a lot about drawing.

I wanna get into an art school...I wanna be able to paint beautiful pictures...inspirational pictures,imaginative pictures...fantasy...people,animals,trees,birds...I want to be an ARTIST.

Sketching...

Practising hatching cross hatching...The lesson that I learnt the best about drawing is to keep drawing everyday...the only way to get better is drawing regularly and drawing whenever possible, drawing anything and everything...Draw,draw,draw...Rapid improvement can be seen...I love drawing.

Another sketch

I like sketching a lot...It makes me feel good.

Keep trying...

Done with a 2b pencil while watching tv from a newspaper...I like the cross hatching work I did,I wanna work on this more and more...

Rough Sketches...

Practising hatching, cross hatching & contour hatching...

What I drew today...

Yesterday's sketch...

Jus concentrating on contour...light shading(blending)

sketch i did yesterday...

I will concentrate on contour drawing(blind contour/modified contour for some days...) and concentrate on hatching cross hatching....Will not be doing any pencil drawing for sometime...

mistakes...

I spoilt the drawing somehow...I feel I should complete the drawing in one sitting and must not carry it over to the next day...

one more sketch I did while watching tv...

Drawing Hair

I forgot this guy's name...I just cut up interesting faces from the daily newspaper and store them away in my file for sketching.I worked on this face today morning,the first thing I do in the morning now is to draw...I draw for about 45 minutes...with the music on...I love it...I always had a problem with drawing hair...I would either just draw lines or just scribble it off, guess my left brain couldn't handle it...but today I just went ahead and drew the hair...

I could see my left brain struggling momentarily before it gave way and my right brain took over gleefully...Drawing hair is not that difficult...What is difficult is seeing...how can one draw hair if one totally avoids looking at all the fine details ???

I just did that I looked long at the hair and I said to myself "Yes I want to draw that", for a second there was doubt if I could draw the hair I have never drawn hair before...But I went ahead and looked deeply at the lines,shadows,contours...I saw !!! I saw such rich details and I drew them as I percieved it...Now I feel confident that I can do it...I wanna draw more hairy drawings from here on...

Experimenting with colors...

I was pretty uncomfortable using colors and drew mostly with pens and pencils...Color sort of scared me so I used to stay away from them...Now my need to experiment takes over...I had to do this with just 2-3 colors and I did it...I am giving projects to myself..

Completed the other sketch, I may have to add more values I think...

Draw daily to get better...

I notice that my drawing ability improves tremendously when I draw everyday...I must not get lazy but must keep persevering...must draw daily whatever it is...Hold a pen/pencil and draw...My mom tells me when I was very little(2-3 yearold) she used to give me blank notebooks and a pencil and I scribbled everyday,and I scribbled several notebooks...She said she should have kept those books and if she did I would have loved to see them now...Art began when I first held a pencil in my hand...Art has influenced me at every stage of my life...But I never took it seriously...now it is time to take it seriously as it's taken over me completely !

Art on flickr...

I have added my artwork on flickr...I added some more details to the above drawing today...Did some pen sketches too.I want to draw with pens,colored pencils, and pencils...I want to draw one still life picture everyday...with pen/pencil...I wanna improve my shading skills...Hatching,cross hatching,contour hatching,squirkling.Here's one pen work I did yesterday while watching Blade on TV.

There are some really good tutorials on this website for artists of all levels, I found it helpful...

Art school...

I am thinking about joining an art school.There's a 2 year foundation course in drawing and painting and then one could directly enter the 3d year of a BFA course...The course starts from June 2008, so I have to think well about this before I make a decision...I definitely like the idea of being able to study about drawing/painting and it also includes sculpture !

It is art that gives the greatest pleasure to a human being...Art of any kind,be it music,dance,drama,or anything visual...It's in the process of creation one finds beauty and love and that is what we are born here for, to express ourselves in the form of art...to express Love ! Anyone who has danced,sang,drawn will know what I'm trying to say...

Drawing...

Drawing is my passion these days...I love anything connected with art...It feels good to look at artworks of artists of all genres.

I must draw everyday...That is what I want...to learn from my art and to grow to be a better artist everyday ! Did a portrait(still in progress),this one took me about 40 minutes...was listening to 'great expectations' song tracks as I drew,at one point I began feeling sleepy...that's really strange...maybe I was going deeper and deeper from beta to alpha to light theta...I have to improve upon shading techniques.