Hi All,
Today I wanted to share with you my practice drawing of a tree, based on this tutorial by artist slynrd.
Have a great day!
Abhishek (art noob)
Happy Holi to all of you!!!
Hello Dear Reader,
Today I want to share a couple of sketches - that show my figure drawing practice. Here are the key steps:
Use good reference - I prefer to find good quality photos on Pinterest
Draw the skeletal structure/gesture first - with a thin, light coloured pen or pencil.
Detailed Line Drawing (mostly outline) next - with a darker and thicker pen or pencil.
Add values if needed - using some mid and dark tones, drawn with a brush pen.
Don’t worry about finish/quality - these are for practice and should not take more than a few minutes.
Here are a …
In the last few weeks, I've rewritten the PicoTurtle programming API in a C++ program. Here are the major features/changes of the new implementation:- * The turtle API has Lua bindings. Lua is sufficiently lightweight that the interpreter can be distributed with the new picoturtle program. * The new implementation does not have a client-server design greatly reducing its complexity from the older nodejs/electron based implementation. * The program uses Skia Canvas for the drawing implementation. Skia (developed by google) is also the canvas for google chrome. * Although bindings for other programming languages can be developed, the current version is only …
Dear Reader,
This post is about generative art using computer programs. I’ve always been fascinated by mazes and how to create new ones and solve them. I have developed my own library to do turtle graphics (which I might release soon). While testing this library I decided to write a program to draw a maze.
In the footnotes on the wikipedia article on mazes - I found this article in “Compute! Magazine Issue 019, pg 54”. It describes a succinct program to generate mazes - in MS BASIC and in a flowchart. And so I rewrote that program using my own …
Hi Reader,
Today I want to talk about how social media affects an artist. And why it is important to maintain distance from social media.
Some people take this as a way of staying away from people. That’s not what I’m saying - I’m talking only about the intermediary - social media, not the people on it. The intermediary has its own incentives, and a business to run.
The platform has a mind of its own
On most social media there are awards for interaction and awards for creating content. Both are structured in such a way as to …
Hello Reader,
Today I wanted to introduce you to one of my favourite artist teachers, James Gurney. I discovered him from his many videos on youtube, where he generously shares his skills and knowledge - James Gurney - YouTube. I like doing watercolour and James is a master of this medium, and that is how I discovered his channel and then later his blog at Gurney Journey
In this video he paints an aircraft from the lounge in the airport - the video shows his extraordinary skill. It’s less than 7 mins long, you should definitely watch it…
James Gurney has also …
Today I want to share one of my pen and ink drawings, done some time ago. It’s a village house at the edge of the woods. Sometimes we city folks who come from small towns and villages dream of returning to live in a tiny, isolated place.
Hope you like it. Have a great day, Bye!
-Abhishek (art noob)
Hello Reader,
Today I wanted to write a few words about a Mexican artist you might have heard of - Frida Kahlo. Frida was famous for her paintings with autobiographical elements. She used folk art techniques in painting.
Unfortunately I could not find any of her paintings in the public domain which can be shared without copyright issues.
Frida and her artwork are considered icons for the feminism and LGBTQ+ movements.
Frida had an Indian connection too - here she is in a saree (center) with Nayantara Sahgal (left) and Rita Dar at Casa Azul in 1947.
This online gallery has loads …
Hello Dear Reader,
A few years ago, we had visited Tanakpur in Uttarakhand for a family vacation. On one of the many long walks - I took this photo of a black drongo (a bird native to our region, with a distinctive long split black tail). It made a nice contrast to the warm greens and browns all around it in the tall trees. Almost looks like it is meditating.
Have a great day,
Abhishek (art noob)