Another Portrait of a Girl

 This was an anime character I got inspired by from Instagram, I dont remember the account right now, otherwise I would have linked it. This one was also painted the same time as Gandalf - late Oct 2019

Gandalf the Grey

 I was home for Diwali in 2019 and I painted this after getting inspired (by some random LOTR scene, or quote or music !)

Portrait of a Girl in Oil

 This was the first time my painting a portrait in Oil. I like how it turned out in the end.

Bob Ross - Distant Mountains

 I followed along one of Bob Ross videos on YouTube (this one)

It was a lot of fun following Bob Ross and his soothing painting style. My knife wasn't the proper one required so the mountains came out a bit weird, but apart from that I feel this one looks decent.

Storm Onslaught

 A kind of abstract and not-so-good painting of an upcoming storm on distant hills.

A Starry Sky

Just a scene of a starry night with coniferous trees all around.

Starting Oil Again

 I had last used oil in late 2013. In September 2019, I thought I should maybe start with Oil again. My office work was getting a little monotonous, so I decided to make my weekends a little more fruitful. This is an inspiration taken one of Aarzoo Khurana's photographs (here).

I wanted an image with more flowing colours and less details to paint as I was just starting again. Of course, it looks nothing like the original but it was good practice!

Unique

 Long time no see again. For some time now, I had been posting my paintings/sketches to Instagram. I had even posted older sketches. However, I want to get a little serious about photography, and maintain my current Instagram profile as my photography portfolio(a fancy word I know!). Therefore, I'll be putting my artworks here.

I sketched this one in December 2017. It was a request from a friend nagging me since second 2nd year of college. Finally in my final year of college, I found the time ! Final year is, anyway, the time to fulfill wishes.

Julie Delpy

I watched Before Sunrise yesterday and Before Sunset the day before. Got inspired and made a sketch of Julie Delpy. Although the resemblance isn't too striking, but I'll make do !

Kaneki...

I'm a fan of Tokyo Ghoul and I recently made a Kaneki photo. Here's the photo...

Anime...

Tried out painting Anime for the first time.
Here it is...

... Long time no see!

This is after a long time... I dont get a lot of free time in my course nowadays, and even if I do get, i am in no mood for sketching... I usually watch or rewatch a movie with my room-mate.. or watch a few tickly episodes of The BBT.

All that just to say that I dont sketch much in college.And this is the first decent sketch I have made since coming to this college. I'd rather not show you the other one I had made!  And here is the sketch...

 I used the usual pencils... and charcoal and a black pen to do the hair...

Comment on how u think it is! It'll be a great help

Dug up...

As I was saying, I had dug up my older files. Here are some sketches I made after shifting to Guwahati in 2009...
(and with shading pencils, these..!)

The beginning

A new post after many days... maybe too long..
Well, now my semester's over and I am at home. I didnt draw much during the last part of the semster. So, I didnt have much to show for.

Well, after coming home in all the leisure time I have been having, I dug up my old files and found my oldest drawing! It was done in 2001/2002; but it may very well have been before 2000, that is in the last millenium.

Here it is... a balloon seller in a country fair and some kids...

Pen Sketching...

I tried out pen sketching after a long time...

Drawing with pen sometimes feels very relieving because when you are really frustrated about not doing very good work for a span of a few days... doing a crude pen sketch at least gives you the relief of a single complete work... It sure works that way for me...not that I am an artist or something... 

These sketches have been done on very bad quality paper ... very bad indeed.

And another thing that I have noticed over the span of posting photos on this blog is that since I have clicked all the photos of my sketches of my camera using a 5MP mobile camera in poor lighting of the room , the photos dont come quite same as the original sketches, and tampering with the saturation settings of the photo only make it worse . And since all my drawings are pencil or pen sketches, that plays a crucial factor .

I am thinking of retaking all the photos again using a somewhat better camera with a little better lighting (still, because I dont have professional photography equipments).

Attempt at Realistic Finger...

I tried a little bit of hyper-realism with this sketch. Its my own finger and I have tried to make it look like a photo. Did only two fingers Didn't have much space for more...
The finger in the first photo looks best because I hadn't shaded with the charcoal yet and when I did the contrast with the charcoal made the finger look really dull...

This is the actual drawing.. I just brought the sketch within margin and now it looks dull...

Well, you can always think of it as an old photo, but then it kills the whole notion of hyper-realism.

I guess next time I'll just have to try harder.

In this one, I used 2H, HB, 2B, 3B and charcoal..

I'm building my pencil stack over time,because I now have realized the value of using suitable pencils.

aka Batman...

This is a portrait of Christian Bale I made last year. I think this is one of my better ones...
Again only HB pencils...

This one is not signed...

Jajabor

This portrait of Bhupen Hazarika was actually made on the day of his funeral in 2011. Maa and Baba had gone to his funeral procession and I was at home making this. My tinniest tribute to the Jajabor...

The Anne Frank Story (contd.)

Well, I had mentioned about my obsession with Anne Frank. When I was reading her diary I got to know about this mini series called Anne Frank:The Whole Story starring Ben Kingsley and Hannah Taylor Gordon , released in 2001. I watched it and although I couldn't complete it ,I was so influenced by the acting ( as it is I was already influenced by the story), I decided to draw portraits of the two leads.

Here's portraits of Ben Kingsley And Hannah Taylor Gordon...

Ben Kingsley

Yeah, there are spots on the portrait as I said once my copy had gotten wet.

Both the sketches were done with just HB pencils , because, as I had said, I was obsessed with HB!

So , maybe they didn't come out as good as they could have been...

Hannah Taylor Gordon...