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Beautiful!!!
Superb!!! The amount of detail and variety that you have managed in a 7" x 5", and that too with so much clarity, just shows what a good graphite artist you are.
This is beautiful!!!
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- Chennai (formerly known as Madras) on the east coast of southern India
- What's your favorite media?
- Charcoal, Graphite, Ink, Watercolors
- How long have you been drawing or painting?
- More than 3 years
- Tell us a bit about yourself:
- I am 63 years old and for the last 7 or 8 years I have tried to do at least one drawing (either graphite or ink) every day because I find it very relaxing. Of course, some of these are only 5-minute sketches :-)
I am currently trying out watercolours and I hope to share some of my attempts with you soon.
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- At 6:51pm on September 2, 2010,
Walter Baker said…
- Hi Balaji,
love your Architectural work, very good. Thanks for your comments.
Walter
- At 10:38pm on August 31, 2010,
Cheryl H. Brooks said…
- Hi Balaji, thanks for commenting on my work in progress 2. I appreciate your words very much.
Have a great week!
Hugs...Cheryl
- At 8:10pm on August 31, 2010,
June said…
- Thanks Balaji for the kind words of encouragement. This one did take a long time but I enjoyed it.
- At 7:04pm on August 30, 2010,
Mary said… - Thanks, Balaji, and a special thanks to your daughter...I was very concious o the dark water and wondered if I should lighten it a bit. Glad you said.
- At 4:18pm on August 30, 2010,
Jenny said… - Thank you for your praise Bala, you are very nice.
- At 3:26pm on August 30, 2010,
Rita LaVerdure said… - Balaji, the journal is a little addicting. I have been doing it for over a year now. Somedays when life just happens to get in the way , my journal is the only creative thing I get to do. Thank you for the encouraging words. Rita
- At 1:20pm on August 24, 2010,
yuksel arkun said… - Thank you so much Balaji for your kind comments on my ‘Notorious’, I appreciate them very much, especially coming from an artist as good as yourself.
- At 8:09am on August 16, 2010,
Anna said… - Thanks. Anna
- At 11:09pm on August 14, 2010,
Carol Hama said… - cont'd...
To give you an idea of great line work check out "Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life", by George B. Bridgman, published by Sterling Publishing Co Inc, NY, NY, 2001 originally published in 1952, so you know the work in the book is good quality, not the contemporary junk you find these days...these sketches are "tried and true" and are used by good art schools teaching the good old fashioned way of drawing people. Your people sketches will look like Michelangelo's or DaVinci's, not like Joe Blow's who can barely hold a pencil the right way....yes, yes there is a right way to hold a pencil...something as simple as that is intrinsic to drawing. Before beginning the exercises in Bridgman's get another drawing book, "Keys to Drawing" by Bert Dodson to learn the basics first. The Dewidecimal number at the library is 741.2 DOD. I think it was published in 2001.
You're going to be only as good as the instructor you learn from, so pick out the BEST books....not the most highest in price, but best drawing technique and instruction.
Follow the exercises in these bnooks and practice, practice, practice on anyhting, old phone books, old flyers, old paper bags, old newspapers etc on anything that will hold a pencil mark. Don't cheap out, buy the types of drawing pencils they recommend. If you cheap out you will never learn properly. Get good supplies so you learn "to draw" not learn how to "work around cheap supplies".
And good luck.
- At 11:09pm on August 14, 2010,
Carol Hama said…
- Hi Balaji
Thank you for taking the time to view my website. I am glad you enjoyed your visit there.
Drawing lessons usually start with learning a "vocabulary" of various marks your pencil, pen, felts, brush can make. You have a variety of weights (pressing firmer or lighter produces different values (lightness or darkness) in your line work. Twisting/turning lifting etc changing directions also make different marks. Once you get used to the full range of marks your supplies can produce the next step is playing with exercises to get a "fluency" in producing these marks. I suggest you get yourself to the closest public library and look up books on drawing.
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And I believe Nan and Pop would be very proud of your work
Mansi,
I like this, the woman has "Attitude" by the bucket load. Does it reflect real live??
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I perhaps would not label this "contemporary". Rather, it harkens back to very old Japanese stylistic painting. Its beautiful, but .....
Jo,
I have just tried boats and reflections... Nightmare! These look much better!
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Malcolm,
This is really good . I really like this series... however I believe the police may develop an intrest in your Acer... or is that where the insperation for the colours stems from!!
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