The Art of Sketching

After u guys finish reading or rather, being more precise.. finish seeing this post, m sure that u ppl will complain that the caption is misleading. Y m saying so is that, if u probably search in any search engine with this caption, wot u r gonna get is "many sites n books" talking about the do's and dont's of sketching or maybe some guides to learn "how to sketch"..

In no way, is this post going to be a guide to any of those rules ( he he he the major reason for that is that "m not aware of any of those" :).. ).

Well..This post will have some of my sketches that i like ( which, probably many of u have already seen) and most of them will have a description as to y they are special to me..

So... here it goes .. :)

Those experienced hands..

Eyes...

These are two of my sketches which i like a lot for no other reason but that " they were different"..wen i looked at the original pics, it catched my attention as they looked very simple but still had so much meaning n so many feelings in them..Wondering y i said "the original pic"?.. hmm the reason is that i completely lack imagination in case of sketching :( . If u ask me to c something n draw, i will do that pretty well. But if u ask me to imagine something n then draw.. m sure that the output wont be appreciated :(..
Well.. coming back to the reasons, another very obvious reason is that, they came out as wot i wanted them to :) .. When i showed these two sketches to one of my friends, he told one ambiguity in each. Hmm.. so heres a game for u guys... can u spot the error?????? Oops.. i guess i shudnt have asked u to spot the error.. u know y??? Recently, I asked my cousin brother to tell me one similarity between me n him. He thought for a while n then said " v both work for the same company". Well, that was obviously a similarity but was not wot i was looking for. So he tried again. He said " v both belong to the same family". Wen given another chance, he told " v both are the youngest one at home". He actually came up with many such similarities that v had but not wot exactly i had in mind :(
Getting wot m trying to tell???? I mean to say that.. if i ask u guys to find the fault, probably u ppl will have a look at the sketches as a critic n will come up with many errors which may or maynot have the one that m talking about and i wont obviously feel good to hear about faults in my sketch :( . So guys, leave the game aside n lets move ahead with some other sketches... :)

Grandpa n kiddie :)

This is one of my sketches that tops my fav list. Nothing great about it probably but its very close to my heart. Actually one day i was very upset about something n was feeling very low. I didnt want to sit in a corner n brood. So i just took my pencils n started sketching. It took me probably an hour or so but wen I was done with it, I realised that in that one hour, I had not thought about the thing that had spoiled my mood even once. I was actually amazed coz if I go low, it actually takes me a long time to come out of it. Probably, that is wot a hobby is supposed to be.. something which u enjoy doing n which can take u to another world .. away from the things that hurt u..

Small Girl..

I like this sketch for the very simple reason that " I found it cute :)". When I sent this sketch to some of my friends and asked them as to "which word will u use to describe this pic?", many told "Black" .. Plssssssssssss dont ask me why Black ok!!!! ;)

Lady.. NB: No description for this..

Software Professional's life is... The speciality of this sketch is that "this was the only sketch for which i have ever got a prize"..
Actually that prize was the result of a united effort by me n one sweet friend of mine who gave me the idea... Thanks again dear friend :)..

Hmm.. that brings me to the end of this post.. Know wot guys??? If u ppl have read my post "the power of caption", then I had mentioned in that, that I had attended a lecture by Kalyan Varma about Wildlife Photography. He showed us a slideshow of his photographs and proudly told us the story behind each. Actually, when I was talking about my sketches, I got that same proud feeling that he wud have got at that time :)...

Actaully, I had uploaded many of my sketches in Orkut but one person in my friend's list told that I was doing "self advertising" :(... I wasnt completely deterred but that did make me think.. Had wanted to post my sketches in my blogsite long back, but maybe, that statement was holding me back. But guys, dont u think that v shud do wot v want????.. n not bother too much about wot others tell??? After all "It's my Life" yaar.. and i have got this opportunity to live only once.. If I dont do wot I feel like, then probably.. that wont be the real me!!!!

My New Year Celebrations...

Long back, when dad was in service, the beginning of a new yr used to be marked by a formal party in the Officer’s mess with all the other families in the colony. It used to be fun but somehow was more of a formal thing.. V used to have some games n dance n then the dinner..
Then dad retired n v landed back to our home town where 31st dec. is not a special day. It comes n goes like any other day.
If I was at home (was staying in College Hostel at that time which is in another far away district of Kerala), me n mom wud watch the “special New Year programs” on TV till 12, then wish each other and sleep. Dad being very particular about his daily routine, wud sleep on time. If bhaiya, didi n jeeju were at home, v wud all exchange some cards n gifts and then sleep off..

After finishing my college, I landed in Mumbai for my first job.. Got the company accommodation in a place called Lodhiwali which probably cannot be called as a part of Mumbai. It was a self sufficient colony in a secluded place far away from the madding crowd. It had everything in it, a small mall (where v used to go every Sunday for our so called weekly purchase, had our iron wala, a tailor n a small bakery. At times when v used to get late for the bus, had to run till this place to catch it :) ), a nice football ground (which was multipurpose.ie. at times it used to transform into our holi ground during holi, it’s stairs which used to transform into the place of our “adda” every evening after the tiring office hrs) , a mess where v all used to have our breakfast n dinner, an indoor badminton court n a gym, a school n wot not..Yup, n not to forget.. it had a hospital canteen with a very friendly “anna". But most important thing, the colony had all my friends staying together in our small world called " the SECTOR E ":)…
Oops.. I guess m deviating from the topic.. Just was remembering the beautiful place n the times v had…
Yup, back to the topic now!!!

The kind of New Year Celebrations I had after that can be summarized as below :) :

31st Dec 2003 – 1st Jan 2004
Venue : Sector E, Lodhiwali, Pune Panvel Road :)
Ppl invited : All GETs
Plan : Games, Dance Masti, Camp Fire n yup.. Dinner
Wot I remember now about it : Lotsa dance masti, fun, dinner, photographs with the GET gang,
A special one with my Mota Bhai :).. Calls at 12 to home and to some other friends in Pune having fun in their own way.. followed by the Jammed network :).. n ya…. Antakshari with some who didn’t want to go n sleep though it was well past 12 or probably 1… Not to forget, few songs by a “MOTU uncle” who stayed near by which seemed to be never ending to me or probably, all of us ;)…

31st Dec 2004 - 1st Jan 2005
Venue : Gayatri Apartments, Koper Khairane + Pune next day
Ppl invited : Leftout ppl of the R-Gang who didn’t have any other plans :)
Plan : Oops.. nothing actually.. just a small get together with hmmmmmmmmm nothing planned :)
Wot I remember about it now : A party with my very sweet friends. Lil dance with even the worst dancers on the floor. No food till 12 :(, confusion about the restuarent to go for dinner. Yup, snaps of the dance masti, n at the restaurant. Decision on Jan 1st to go to Pune. Landing in Pune well before afternoon, n visit to almost all “Pune Friend’s” homes. Visit to Saras Bagh, lotsa photographs n very sweet memories…


31st Dec 2005 – 1st Jan 2006
Venue : Hotel Sadanand, Pune
Ppl invited : The R-Gang, their friends, their friend’s friends,their friend’s friend’s friends n not to forget..their family too :)
Plan : A party organized by the Hotel, which had a DJ nite + Dinner of course
Wot I remember about it now : A “New Year Bash” (as I term it as) where I met new ppl and got new friends. Lots n lotsa dance, discovered some grt dancers, masti n lotsa masti… People who v thought might need some encouragement to come on to the dance floor, just surprised us by their energy n their style :)...

31st Dec2006 – 1st Jan 2007
Venue : Chennai
Ppl invited : me, my cousins n an uncle
Plan : Dances n songs by professionals, Dinner
Wot I remember about it now : songs I cud not understand n enjoy :( , a fabulous fire works show at 12.. n yup... fun time with family :)

Well, wanted to hit a hatrick by celebrating the new yr in Pune this yr too but coz of many many reasons, cud not make it :(… This yr, it was good n I did have fun but somehow… somewhere… something was missing.. I guess it was the company of my very dear friends who because of sooooooooo many logical reasons are now scattered in different parts of the world (literally!!!)…Don’t know if all of u felt the same but me missed u guys n our parties a loooooooooooooooot this time…:(
Hoping that in the years to come, at least once v all will welcome the new year together the way v used to do…with obviously many additional ppl to the R-Gang ( I mean all u ppl’s life partners n yup the sweet "next generation R-gang" too.. I mean the kids :) )...