Sunday, August 19, 2012

cheer up!


I woke up one morning, had to get set and go to work...but somehow my moody mind was not gearing up. My mind was shattered into many pieces of thoughts and was adamant not to focus. Then I started this sketch in an attempt to get rid of the noise these thoughts were making inside my head. I used sketch pens in this one...chose to use colours on that day just for the fact that they have this mood-brightening effect on me as I said before... I started without any prior idea about what I was going to do. But it was not as random as some of the recent ones where I just went for scribbling. And I did this in one shot. :) I liked the berries and leaves a lot, but was somehow disappointed on myself for the way the bird developed. 

That's it! My thoughts were gathered into one piece, random thoughts vanished and I was set for work :)

Thursday, August 2, 2012

some other distracted moments...


Well, nothing much to say this time. This is the compilation of scribbles at some more distracted moments in an attempt to calm myself down and relax a bit... :)
I must say, the pressure of pencil tip on paper, the continuous and broken motion of pencil, the evolving lines have an amazing  effect on me in relaxing...

Thursday, April 12, 2012

In a beautiful afternoon...

Mmm  ... where should I begin? Well, this is my first 'online' picture of our beautiful campus :P. The day I came to the campus, I wished to sketch certain beautiful spots. Those spots always reminded me when I pass by them that I need to sketch them. The beautiful white benches were always inviting... but I always hesitated. Sometimes I was conscious about the movement of people around me, some other times unsure of my capability. And the other day, I came out of lab with my notebook, frustrated about the fact that my experiment is not working and started walking until I got tired. Then I sat on one of the beautiful benches. It was a beautiful afternoon, the cloudy weather, the cool breeze, bringing relief in the hot summer ... and I wanted to sit there for some more time. It was then I started sketching this. That moment gave me the courage to do what I could not do for almost 2 years!

I found that it was tougher to observe the patterns and depict it when watching it in real than when copying from a photograph. Many times, I was not sure how to sketch the details, for example the intricate folds of the trunks. Another thing I would like to point out is the branches shooting vertically upwards. This is not the only tree in the campus, there are many such trees whose branches shoot straight up! I could not stop admiring Nature. She has made things so intricate yet so simple.

I tried my best to maintain the perspective, although I need to improve at depths and many more aspects I do not know yet. While I was sketching, I needed to sit and complete it as I knew that if I leave it incomplete, I would never complete it again. There was a fight going on between the Perfectionist Me and the Impatient Me ... I kept sketching until the Impatient Me won :) It was like a treat to me :) . Now I am more confident of sketching on the spot :)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Distraction


Well, as I said, I have developed this habit of drawing zigzag lines whenever I am distracted. So, this time I thought of drawing them on a single piece of paper instead of drawing here and there. So here it is ... I did not do this in one shot. Whenever I felt like scribbling, I opened this sheet and started scribbling. I went where my pencil took me with absolutely no intention of creating anything. And I went on till I calmed down. This is nothing but a compilation of random scribbles in different distracted moments isolated from each other. In the end, it looked good to me :). Looking forward to do more such sketches :)

You are free to interpret it the way you want to... :)

Saturday, March 24, 2012

She

She

Hmm... another new notebook... another set of tempting new white pages ... another boring day in lab and another attempt to start something random. So I went on with these zigzag lines which slowly took the shape of hair, and I went ahead with a face to complete it. Again, a girl's face with closed eyes is my favourite.

 I am somehow liking sketching those zigzag lines these days, especially when I am distracted. They allow me to go on stroking with my pencil without really stopping, as if the pencil is moving on itself. They create beautiful patterns and kind of calm me down. :) I used zigzag patterns throughout this sketch; nowhere did I use deliberate clear lines and that was like 'wooow'. Unlike the previous one, I had to stop and use eraser at few places though. I hardly took half an hour to do this and to refresh myself. :P So this was like a quick snack. :) Its alright if I can manage with many quick snacks instead of one full meal. :P

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Is it this...or is it that?

Let me start with why I uploaded this picture... because it is different from all the previous pictures that I have uploaded, in the sense that, in this case, I did not have to work on my skills, did not have to deliberate on how to sketch or paint it, I did not even imagine what I was going to do...I started with the blue ink pen and the drawing grew with the ink. That was like 'wooow' for me :)

So I bought a new notebook the other day. I love new notebooks, the white pages and their smell. I was scanning through the blank pages and someone in my mind said, "wow...beautiful white pages!". And then another voice said, "Why don't you sketch something on it?". The 1st voice replied, "Ya..right. I should sketch something. I will think of something good, then lets see...May be some other time". The 2nd one snapped,"O you will never do anything except planning to do big some other time!" There was silence...The 2nd voice could not bear it. "Start with something!! You do not have to plan always!" And then I started with a line without really thinking what I wanted to do...and the drawing developed as something that is neither completely plants and flowers nor a complete peacock...weird...looked more like a mehndi design to me...Nevertheless, it was good.

This is the story, bit dramatised, isn't it? :P Any way, it was fun to do.