The exercise of sketching everyday for a month gave an opportunity to try, fail, try again till you find something interesting and take things ahead. I had always sketched spaces, buildings, trees and vegetation. 2 weeks of drawing human beings took away the inhibition of being bad at drawing human beings. It provided me with an opportunity to try different mediums to realise where exactly … Continue reading Learning through body
Drawing people while they dance is a challenge at keeping the motion alive in a static image. While drawing the images of performance done during the Bhaat Nyotna ceremony from images the challenge of live drawing was reduced as now I had motion frozen and just had to copy that frozen memory of dance in my style of drawing. Motion in the body was most … Continue reading Performance/Ceremony at home
Observing the world of plants and trees is different from humans in many ways. Firstly, they move in very subtle ways unlike human beings always in motion and secondly, drawing them is less about capturing muscular composition but more about the relationships that are shared between two leaves or how leaves are wrapped around a branch. The trees I chose to draw captured me because … Continue reading Trying to be a tree
The first hour of everyday was to be dedicated to drawing, mostly from direct observation of the subject in presence. This exercise has a threefold objective:
1. Centring the body & mind, building hand & eye coordination and beginning the day in quietude
2. Building patience & perseverance in addition to developing visual & spatial representation skills
3. Developing a nuanced understanding of the inhabitants and protagonists of spaces Continue reading Drawing: Visual & Spatial Representation
Various sketches were created to represent performances unique to a community, my cohabitants, trees, and plants, along with their profiles. One can easily create a close association with the drawings because they are all based on observations. Continue reading Sketching Impressions…
When I was prompted to think about performing arts unique to my community/region. I began by ruminating over three words- performing arts, my community and my region. My region is Delhi, the kind of Delhi where the middle classes live in gated colonies. The kind of Delhi that is all about travelling by metro. This is the region I identify the most with. The community … Continue reading Bhaat-Nyotna: Performance unique to Community
The blog contains VSR of the 4th week where I tried to understand profiles of performers, artists, my cohabitants and trees surrounding me. Continue reading Visual and Spatial Representation of Profiles
Drawing people I live with was an act of capturing their leisure time. I mostly drew them in relaxed poses while they were in their leisure mode. Because they were relaxed and could freely be my study model, seeing me draw them also prompted them to draw me. Both Sukveer and Nikhil picked up the pen and drew me when I was done drawing them. … Continue reading People I live with
So the fourth visual and spatial representation was about defining the profiles of the studied objects. These included all the visual and spatial representations of objects as practiced in the previous three exercises, which were performances unique to region or community, cohabitants, and vegetation. Continue reading Representing the profiles of studied objects
What is a profile? What to keep and what to discard while drawing profile so that the sense remains? What sense to capture in a profile? These are few questions I grappled with while doing the exercise. Cohabitants: Before drawing I was figuring out what to profile while drawing a human being? Well, yes off course the movements and the postures. After drawing the first … Continue reading Sketches: Profiles
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