Sunday, February 23, 2014

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).

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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.