Christ
Merry Christmas!!
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Drawing Scenary, Lanscapes and seascapes, Jack Hamm
Fall of the Longhorn..
Longhorn is the mascot of University of Texas, Austin. So this is representing Austin. With UT meeting Alabama for the BCS championship, am I predicting the result here… lets c. This is the last of the Texas category but also the start of my next theme, Elements of Nature. This sketch representing Land.
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1. Drawing Scenary – Landscapes and seascapes, Jack Hamm.
Wild wild west 2
This is representing the rest of texas, which is for the most part dry and barren.
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1. Drawing scenary, landscapes and seascapes, Jack Hamm.
Wild Wild West.. The good and the bad
Dallas , among other things is famous for its football team, Cowboys and its cheer leaders. So a couple of cowboys to represent Dallas.
Moving on to the technical aspect,In a good action figure drawing, it should evident what has happened and /or what is about to happen.If the point in the action which you choose to depict epitomizes the entire maneover your drawing will be perceived and understood as moving figure, says Ron Tiner.
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1. Figure Drawing without a Model, Ron Tiner
Go Coogs…
This time, I just happened to stumble upon another theme – TEXAS . The very mention of the name texas, people relate it to the land of cowboys. True but that aint gonna be the first sketch. For the uninitiated, Austin, Dallas and Houston are the three major cities in Texas. I intend to draw something that relates with each city. I am a U of H alumni, so this one is representing Houston and University of Houston. Cougar, a mountain lion, is the mascot of U of H. I have tried to portray it here.
For the first time, I completed a sketch without erasing and in a single sitting, watching ‘pasanga’ side by side. I have used 4H, H and 4B pencils here.
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1. Pencil Drawing Techniques, David Lewis.
Contour – 1
In sketching an adult figure, proportion of the body is of prime importance says Pogany. In actuality, the height of a human ia about seven and half heads high. But when drawing, it is made to about 8 heads high so that it looks more longer legged and more ideal.
I have used 2B pencil for sketching and shading.
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1. The Art of drawing, William Pogany.
Blackout…
This post is close to my heart as this is my first sketch which I can say is my own( no ref included). I have used a simple concept here – Projecting white in black.
In all my previous sketches and sketches henceforth, its always a black on white background and when one deviates from the norm it sure does make heads turn. I had to scout for the right figure to portray in this type of sketch as only an outline can be shown without any details. And for those white spots u c, I did try to cover them up as much as i can but sometimes I accidently encroached into the sketch. Hence just posted it as it is. So much of charcoal for the sketch that I did not really sketch!!
Bhaya – Rasa 7
Bhaya is fear. The subtle and nameless anxiety caused by a presentiment of evil, the feelings of helplessness evoked by a mighty and cruel ruler, and the terror felt while facing certain death are all aspects of bhaya. The fear for one’s well being and safety is supposed to be the most primitive feeling known to man. Bhaya is the feeling evoked while facing something that is far bigger and more powerful than oneself and which is dead set on one’s destruction, a feeling of being overwhelmed and helpless. Dread, cowardice, agitation, discomposure, panic and timidity are all aspects of the emotion of fear. Bhaya is also used to characterize that which causes fear. People and circumstances that cause others to cower in terror before them are as central to portrayal of this rasa as those feeling the fear…..
An anxiety has been tried to portray here.
All the while, I have been trying to portray the rasas in a symbolic fashion, thoughts, reactions, bodily movements and consciously avoided portraying it as expressions of the face. I do not know whether I ll be able to hold on to my stand for the remaining two rasas.
The last of the two rasas – Karuna and Shanta are consuming more time than expected . Hence I shall post them after a brief gap.
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1. The Art of Drawing, Willim pogany
2. http://www.ee.caltech.edu/~gowaikar/rand/navaras.html
Bhibatsya – Rasa 6
“Bhibatsya is disgust. The emotion evoked by anything that nauseates us, that revolts or sickens us is Bhibatsya. When something comes to our notice that is coarse and graceless, beneath human dignity, something which revolts or sickens us it is Bhibatsya that we feel…”
This picture depicts a reaction to something really disgusting.
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1. The Art of Drawing, William Pogany
2. http://www.ee.caltech.edu/~gowaikar/rand/navaras.html
Javelin Throw..
4 more rasas left..getting a bit monotonous.. Just took a break …
AlsoI wanted to try something in different genre. This one depicts his strides moments before the javelin is ‘off’ his hands….This one is truly “captured in motion”..Simple sketching with 2B pencil.
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1. Figure sketching without a model, Ron Tiner
