Watercolor Experiment Continues...

My experiment with watercolor keeps continuing, and as I do more and more, the learning is immense and teaches me what to do first and what next, as a step by step approach. Most important it teaches me patience to wait for a day to dry completely and then apply the next layer. This painting was done whenever had some 15-30mins free time, did not do in single stretch. Obviously friends and colleagues in office appreciate, but only I know where the mistakes are :) and ofcourse a professional would easily find them. As always your critics are welcome to improve myself.

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The Peacock Dance - Watercolor

The more and more I search for watercolor arts, the more I get inspired with the creativity and techniques used and trying my hands. After a long time, got a free weekend to explore watercolors. It looked simple when I saw, but when tried, the actual effort was known. Will surely try one more of the same drawing, with the learning I got from this drawing.

Hope you all like it, and please give me suggestions to improve.

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Jallikattu Series

January being the season of farmers in southern part of India, there is celebration for a week. Highlight of the festival season is the Bull Taming (Jallikattu) conducted in various parts of village. Youngsters are lined up not just for the game, but it proves their braveness, ofcourse there are people who jump out of the field. With all these new actions over the internet, why not put them on drawing and here are few of the actions using Charcoal stick as medium.

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"India Today" Coverage - Self Taught Artist

Another exciting moment happened in Dec 2013 was an article covering about "Self Motivated Artist" in India Today. It was a pleasant surprise for us, when reporter and photographer from the Magazine visited us and started interviewing us about our passion. Very happy to see an article covering my photo while sketching during Chennai Weekend Artist's Sunday meet at Queen Mary's College, Chennai.

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Mylapore Fest -

Mylapore can rightfully claim to be the soul of Chennai city. Mylapore retains the look and feel of an old neighborhood, the culture and heritage typically south Indian, yet it has not escaped development. This place that is proud of its arts, culture and tradition and people is just the setting for a cultural festival.

Mylapore Festival 2014 happened during 2014 Jan 9 - 12, where Chennai Weekend Artist (CWA) exhibited 100+ original art works from various medium like charcoal, watercolor, acrylic etc. We also had color prints of all sketches priced low next to the originals. First time we tried printing on art board and created photocard. I had 4 of my photo cards on sale during the exhibition. Another great experience starting of 2014.

Highlight of the festival was Water color demo by Nirupam Konwar, Acrylic demo by Jeevanathan.

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Flashback - A Tribute to Cinema

I got a wonderful opportunity to participate in Flashback - Tribute to Indian Cinema, conducted by Anna University and Ethiraj College - Media Science department students. They had a collection of 4000+ photographs all related to early cinema history. This was to honour 100 years of Indian cinema history. They had display of projectors, camera, editing machines etc etc as exhibits, it was wonderful to know how cinema evolved and it is now.

Chennai Weekend Artist (CWA) was invited to exhibit sketches of old movies in artistic way, we had almost 200+ entries and 80+ were selected to exhibit, including two of my sketches. It was really a exciting experience and my first display in an exhibition. Puthuyugam TV covered the whole show which happened during last week of December 2013.

Syberian Director Goran Paskaljevic inaugurated the exhibition and other Celebrities like Padmasree Kamal Hasan, Goutami, Nasser, Editor Lenin, Director Ram, Director/Actor Sasikumar, Director Cheran, Director Atlee, Kalaimamani Film news Anandhan, Art Director Mr. Trotsky Marudu and many more visited and wished the students. Happiest moment was when Padmasree Kamal Hassan was looking at my charcoal sketch of Moonram Pirai Scene.

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Om Nama Shivaya - Pencil Sketch

I am still struggling to get the realism, while drawing face, so mostly I never try sketching portraits. But this time I came across a wonderful drawing using white color pencil on a black medium, not sure it could be chalk also. I was really impressed by that drawing, and had in mind to replicate the same using pencil. And the day came, when I had to gift my friend, who is devotee of Lord Shiva, thought what special I can gift and sketched this.

The original picture I used did not have face, so it was easy for me to replicate the complete drawing without face. Everyone asks me to complete the sketch with face, but I dont want to lose the charm putting in my own creativity :)

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Alexander, Porus, Bucephalus - The Climax

Bucephalus should be favorite epic character for everyone of every age. He is the majestic horse Alexander the great rode and won his battles. Poor ending was Bucephalus, died on war land fighting against Porus, Indian King who had war elephants. Bucephalus was firghtened, still he managed to continue fighting. If you want Alexander movie, this one last scene where his majestic black beauty jumps over to the elephant.

For a long time, I had this in my back floor to sketch, finally got time to complete this for this weekend. I did not draw this in detail size, this is A4 size and tried to depict the scene to the extent I can. Please your comments are welcome. Used 3B, 4B to complete this sketch.

My other sketch of Alexander taming Bucephalus

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Lord Ganesha - Quick Sketch

One another piece of pencil drawing of Lord Ganesha for this weekend, I could not get the complete image from web for reference, so whatever possible I added my imagination and completed the drawing for your comments.

Earlier Lord Ganesh Drawings

Lord Vinayaka (Quick Sketch)
Ganapthi baba mouriya (Detailed one)

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Lord Vinayaka - Quick Sketch

This sketch was pretty quick, on a friday night started around 11pm and completed in 1.5hrs. Wanted to start straight away with the darker shades and decided to use only 3B Faber Castell pecil, with very light strokes and then fill up the shades.

Asusual your comments are welcome :)

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Lord of Dance - Nataraja

Nataraja - in his unique dancing poses are really amazing and mesmerizing. There are lot of thandavam poses and I believe the most familiar one to me is the Anandha Thandavam. I tried sketching the pose in full front view initially, but there seem to be a lot of sketches in front view, so thought why not I try in a different angle, either from top or side or bottom angle. Finally this angle looked great and gave me a divine gigantic feel, and decided to sketch.

After scanning, wanted to give a final touch and added the black borders, like a cinema-scope effect :), now this is my desktop wallpaper.

Used 4H and 2B for this sketch. Please provide your comments on how to and where to improve my sketching skills.

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"Kumki" Special - Pencil Drawings Part 1

Kumki, the name itself sounds different and when browsed to know what it really means, I was attracted to it, may be related to elephants ;) last week happened to see Kumki audio release function in Vijay TV and was carried away by the emotional moments, and today Independence Day Special of Kumki songs in Vijay TV again attracted me more towards the film.

Before even the release, the movie has attracted the audience in mass, am sure this movie is going to be great blockbuster than Myna. How can I stop me from drawing the awesome stills release by Kumki team, and here are two of them drawn on Independence Day holiday watching all TV programmes ;)


Even though I could not bring the exact feeling which the stills revealed, I tried my best to bring out the Kumki stills, few more drawings in progress which I will post very soon, before the film release.

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My Fav Technique

Hello friends, after exploring the techniques of pencil drawing like vector, contour, hatching, shading, gesture, scribbling am still not satisfied and keep exploring other techniques. Meanwhile I came across a drawing by Ernst Cole in a academic class, which attracted me very much. It was not gesture nor crosshatch or shading, it was combination of all three to me... so tried my hands on the one which atracted me. Althouh I could not match the original sketch I almost achieved it 90%.

If you notice closely, its pretty much simple with very few lines, but the depth of matter revealed in those lines are tremendous. The expreesion in the eyes, its sharpness and thinking pose... everything has been portraited very well. Rather drawing the complete picture, he most important dark shades are shown exactly and the rest are made with shades and crosshatching. The portrait loks like our great poet Rabindranath Tagore, but I dont know whether it was him because I have not seen this drawing in any site apart from this one academic book. I am planning to draw more with just lines and either shading or crosshatching to reveal the depth of expression.

This may be one form of vector sketches too, but the shading or hatching makes it stand apart from vector.
I used only HB and 2H pencils for this drawing. Asusual want all your valuable comments in improving myself.

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Women's Day 2012 Drawing Competition

After almost a year after am back with my new drawing.. This was a request from my sister to participate in women's day competition. She wanted to project uniqueness of women, immediately which stuck my mind was Motherhood, which is the only one a man cannot feel, or experience, so kept that as concept and started my hunt on web, I liked lot of drawings, but with the 2 hour time I had, I could only draw this. First time tried this freestyle drawing. We never expected anything, but just wanted to participate in the celebration, and to our surprise we won 1st prize in the competition... :)

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Kailasanathar Temple - Pencil Drawing

Well this is one of my favorite drawing. As soon as I finished this, one of my friend liked it, so gave the original copy to her, and she framed it to have it in her work station. Now another friend of mine, played around my drawing a little and showed all his creativity. The image is the original Kailasanathar temple in Kanchepuram. Soon I will upload my original scanned copy of this drawing in full resolution. I used HB and 2B pencil to draw this.

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Female 5 - Pencil Drawing

Got critics like her hand fingers are not drawn properly. why is not wearing blouse ;) so your critics are welcome Drawn using HB pencil.

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Female 4 - Pencil Drawing

This one is the ultimate... Many asked what is she pushing.. even I dont know ;) This is first time I tried using charcoal pencil. Charcoal used only for the hairs. Drawn using Charcoal, 2B pencil.

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Female 3 - Pencil Drawing

Face of this girl did not come well... but still ok Drawn using HB pencil

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Female 2 - Pencil Drawing

This female is african, does she look like that. People told only the curly hair makes her african. Drawn using 2B pencil.

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Female 1 - Pencil Drawing

After the cowboy series, now started the female series. Ofcourse every artist will touch this series... nature's beauty right, so I too started drawing Drawn using 2B HB pencil.

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