Well these lines dedicated to the rose are picked from our dear Shakespeare…
O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo’d, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, my verse distills your truth.
Anecdote: Well that fact that I am not trained with sketching is well known… but I would like to acknowledge that I would not have learnt sketching but for two reasons ‘jealousy’ and ‘my brother’. A li’l of both to be exact.
This is a sketch made by my brother ages ago… a sketch that made me cry for nights together because I could not better it… ( well my bro had to hide it for some time I guess… can’t remember that bit clearly but was very jealous…)
In any case this was the sketch that motivated me to make sketches literally in every page of every copy book I ever owned till I finally manage to sketch something decent. But at times there is a simplistic beauty in this sketch that still drives me mad ( coz I still don’t get it right)
Well I did make the same sketch which was given to a friend as a gift…
The search never ends...
Well this picture was a quest or search in more then one sense… first of all a ballerina is looking for something/ someone in the middle of a jungle… her search is the quest…
If you watch it more carefully you would see that this beautiful ballerina looks very Indian yet she is dresses Russian to me that was quest for identity. Its like the two people from opposite ends of the world fused into one… I describe it more as the bharatnatyam dancer in a ballerina outfit!
Disclaimer: Well this portrait is on A3 sheet so sorry about the break in the picture for scanning 
+ this is purely an inspired picture … so in short ‘ vini vidi and now u see: saw it somewhere got intrigued so re-conceptualized it…
Anecdote: Well this potrait is leaves a very unsettling feeling within me…. somewhere deep down I see me in this… Quest and Confusion…
A gap of over 2 months and I’m back….
About the sketch: This was sketch literally long long ago…. if my memory doesn’t fail me somewhere in school or early college…. So of course this was a mimicked attempt of some photo that I found….
Anecdote: Kanika thinks it looks distantly like Sushmita Sen, well kind of agree with her I think Mariam (that’s what I call her) looks like a blend of Ash and Sush….
And this is a A3 size sheet so u’ll find a break line where the colouring slightly changes… and of course Raj helped me with this as well….
What’s special in this sketch? Well I have used only a 2B (the normal pencil we use…) in this…. so all those guys who think sketching requires half a dozen equipment, nope it doesn’t)
And yes! this was one among the few foray’s made into jewelery designing
Solitary Weeper
Now that you would have seen its not about my sketch pad alone a lot of other amateurs are sharing their sketches to be shared and reviewed.
Well I picked on this one as its so unique its style, it uses clean cut figures with some smooth shading and a lot of symbolic and strategic placement of characters to send out a complete story behind this on sketch.
The story in this sketch goes so that this woman is seeing her man leave on a long journey and is in tears as she is left behind in a barren land which seems more stark in the absence of her beloved.
The light from the sinking sun highlight her agony was it is shines pitifully on her.
Well these are the thoughts that ran in my mind when Mahima Caprihan ( my colleague who did this piece ) showed the sketch to me for the first time…
Anecdote: Well strongly feel that the drawing style is very similar to some traditional styles followed in some parts of India…. giving it a very traditional feel…. ( just a hunch… )
Orange
This is a design inspired by the fruit Orange!!!!
So you see deep orannge top with clean cuts sitting on lsuh green skirt with a slight flare.
Well the deign i feel is refreshing 
Anecdote: I personally love the entire look , inclusive the hair style with bark brown hair !
Flows and Cuts
Whats this? OK This was a design I created a long time back while sitting on the last bench of the classroom or on one of the adda sessions.
Its a blend of clean cuts with flows for a dress. The combination was intended to blend (pink + purple) while the deep pink ear rings bring the much needed contrast.
What say?
Mid Summeer Night's Dream
Well, the spirit behind this blog was to keep alive the passion for hobbies even when you are marooned in your professional lives… All that most of us do is type away our lives when we are not rushing at break neck speeds between meetings
Well this effort seems to be taking root with contributions in sketching (which I believe is therapeutic for unwinding after a stressful day…) flowing in from friends as well.
Anecdote: This sketch was made by a dear friend and she wants her name withheld as she is paranoid that the sketch will get flaked! But I personally feel I like this sketch for the clean strokes and uncluttered shading style which many of us forget as we start sketching regulaly. On the other hand a little more depth and finesse in shading would have bring in a more dramatic element!
Anyways what do you say?
A lot of people feel sketching is an art, well like every other art when you you strip it down from the passion you realize there are a set of ground rule, which if followed meticulously could pretty much create a nice sketch….
Well that intro was for people who feel they cannot sketch.
Well,
Step 1:
Pick any sketch that inspires you ( pick relatively simple ones)
Step 2:
Lay a grid on the sketch ( Carefully, Its very similar to traditional resizing of maps, if you have studies geography)
Step 3:
Take a sheet of paper with a hb( Hard black) pencil draw a similar grid ( mind you use a light hand or the impression due to pressure can leave some marks)
Step 4:
Now look a one grid a time from your original sketch and mimic it on the grid in a similar position on the drawing sheet. ( It’ll be easy if you number the outer box , something similar to a excel sheet numbering, A5 should correspond too A5) DO NOT bother to sketch in all minute details, just get the outlines in place.
I’ll take you along as on this particular sketch…. as in by the end of you following these steps you need to get something similar to this:
Ok this is not a sketch…. but want to branch out learn more… so some friends have suggested some things like:
* Switch to painting ( have started oil)
* Do theme based sketches ( plaese give ideas…)
* Sketch Nature…( will start soon)
* Also planning on running everyone through the sketching technique i use….
Is there anything I can do to make it more fun for me and you?
Nothing in life is black and white
There was darkness in the world….
And then God said ‘ Let there be Light!”
We often take so many things for granted… I wear glasses (thick ones) and perpetually crib about not being able to differentiate between a wall and a buffalo without one…. But Just felt like thanking God the at least with my glasses I can differentiate between pink and green….
This is not a master peice but this is a thank you card to God
Anecdote: Well Neha strongly feels I dont really do a lot of Indian designs… so this is a east meets west design for her…. and Well we have two interpretation for this people think she is walking down her alter…. And I feel she is a run away bride…. so you can pick either or come up with a new story ( In that case share it with me )
