What you resist persists. True that.
I avoided all those courses that involved anything to do with sketching.
Two reasons:
1. I hated sketching. With the "graphic designer" label hanging on my head, I've avoided admitting this fact for way too long and it's time to confess. I dislike sketching to the core. Not for any other reasons but because of the fact that I just can't sketch. I can't sketch anything realistic. Having said that, I also fear sketching because I hate the imperfection of all my sketches I did beginning from under-grad school at Srishti. (I like the ones I did back in high school).
2. I always found an alternate course either in print production, print making or anything to do with music as a performance art. And hence, my dislike and fear for sketching was taken care of since 2005.
But NOW, I feel it's not only important to sketch for my professional practice but also to get over all those fears accumulated since the time I began with grad school. So here are the first two sketches/illustrations as refreshment exercises. I just took a marker and drew two things that were on my desk: Heltmet (In case you fail to recognize the second illustration here as a helmet) and the mac mini I work on. I have somehow taken really long to finish them- from scanning to colouring on Photoshop and then writing this post. I just hope to gather a better pace with sketching/ illustrating- for myself.
I avoided all those courses that involved anything to do with sketching.
Two reasons:
1. I hated sketching. With the "graphic designer" label hanging on my head, I've avoided admitting this fact for way too long and it's time to confess. I dislike sketching to the core. Not for any other reasons but because of the fact that I just can't sketch. I can't sketch anything realistic. Having said that, I also fear sketching because I hate the imperfection of all my sketches I did beginning from under-grad school at Srishti. (I like the ones I did back in high school).
2. I always found an alternate course either in print production, print making or anything to do with music as a performance art. And hence, my dislike and fear for sketching was taken care of since 2005.
But NOW, I feel it's not only important to sketch for my professional practice but also to get over all those fears accumulated since the time I began with grad school. So here are the first two sketches/illustrations as refreshment exercises. I just took a marker and drew two things that were on my desk: Heltmet (In case you fail to recognize the second illustration here as a helmet) and the mac mini I work on. I have somehow taken really long to finish them- from scanning to colouring on Photoshop and then writing this post. I just hope to gather a better pace with sketching/ illustrating- for myself.
This seems the way to begin to refine my illustration and sketching skills.
This is pyaarelal's constant companion.
(Pyarelal is my 6.5 years old Honda Activa who might surface on this blog soon.)
(Pyarelal is my 6.5 years old Honda Activa who might surface on this blog soon.)
This fine piece of perfection and design is my companion at work and at home.
Good going Khushu. Keep at it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Somesh! :) You are one of the inspirations to get started with improving this skill! Thank you :)
DeleteTypo in the first sentence?
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the helmet and that expensive computing device (manufactured by a fruit company). Definitely the talent you deprived us from enjoying all "these years". (I can't count your highschool days, for the reason you know.)
ReplyDeleteYes, definitely a value-add to your already-quite-creative self. And finally Somesh could be of some use - be it inspiring you in any implicit way.
Rahul bhai, It's okay to have some typos. Just letting off my ocd for perfections and letting the imperfections drain in. It's actually a challenge.
DeleteAbout the talent.. well, I'm self-praise shy. And also, self-confident deprived. The fact that you commented on this is a good enough motivation to get my hands dirty to create something new.
Somesh, SketchCrawls and some interesting blogs are THE inspirations. :)
More typos. :|
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