Passing Time

These are some of the sketches I did on my notebook at different points of time, when I did not have much to do.  I met a lecturer who was doing her PhD in painting and I showed her my sketches and asked her advice. And she asked me to watch people and start sketching away...  So here they are, some random sketches, not too thorough, but helped me enjoy my time! Any way, let me tell you the story behind each of them...

The picture to the left is of a friend, who is a brilliant guitarist and often gets lost in music while playing. He was playing one evening, n I did not have much to do other than listening to his music. So I pulled out my notebook, scribbled his silhouette.  I could sketch it alright, everybody who saw the sketch could recognize the guy :)

The top one is out of my imagination. I was travelling in train at that time. So I created this imaginary person and tried sketching him... Well, the flaws in his shoulder and unrealistic look on his face clearly tell that its out of the mind of a novice. :P

I think, I sketched the lower picture on the same day, when my fellow passenger was not looking towards me. All the time, I was acting like a thief trying my best to not to let him know ... and I succeeded. :)

The one to the right is the most recent one, again on train. I was getting bored as I did not have anything at all to do to pass time, and then I found my subjects... I thoroughly enjoyed sketching the mother and her daughter... Yeah... It took me a while to come to the conclusion that the lady is actually her mother, she looked very young but at the same time, very tough too.   The funny thing was that the kid could guess that I was doing something... She kept looking back at me wondering why I was looking at her all the time and I kept smiling at her playfully... I enjoyed myself thoroughly on that day :)

Truely, the amount of fun one can have in sleeper compartment of Indian railways, that goes totally missing in AC compartments.  With this, I am looking forward to do more such rough, on-the-spot sketches.