Thursday, April 8, 2010

From Behind

From Behind : Pencil : 12 X 10 inches
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What do you do when you are going through a bad patch with your brushes? Turn to women; I mean to your pencils :). I did this one to ease me out of the spree of failures that I had with watercolours yesterday. I am happy with the result. It does bring back my confidence.

Your thoughts, comments, critiques and suggestions please. Thanks.

7 comments:

  1. Why are you so strict with yourself...You are doing a great job! keep painting and keep your spirits high! I want to see more of your water color paintings...

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  2. Nice and fluid...good sketch!

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  3. Hi, you might want to read Danny Gregory: Creative License. He set you free.
    How to be good to yourself, how to handle mistakes, how to push barriers gently away... etc.
    No, I am not his publisher :-) and he did not ask me to promote his book.
    I am just one of his reader and he saved me from the critical part of me.
    And what I found is better, than my critical part ever had imagined.
    You might want to be good to yourself... Love and Blessings

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  4. Okay, um that is just plain GORGEOUS!!! And you are funny, women, ha!
    It's a masterpiece! Truly it is. You should draw the figure more often, you have a gift. You really captured her grace. I LOVE it.

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  5. First of all there seems to be a problem with your blog. It just shows an error sometime and just does not let me write comments..

    But anyways now I am bale to write..

    About the last post - I keep going through those phases. And to come out of it I just sketch.. pencil, pen, watercolor etc.. Just sketch for sometime.. And guess what I have been actually in the same 'phase' and doing just sketches right now. I'll post them sometime..

    I am scared to do figures.. You have done a great job..

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  6. Thanks Megha. Well, not being strict but just setting myself high standards.

    Thanks Arti.

    Aniko,
    Thanks for the visit and for that piece of advice. Guess I shall get myself a copy of that book :)

    Crystal,
    Thanks yet again. Hope the part about women didn't offend you. Was just trying to be funny :). No pun intended at all :):).

    Thanks for those kind words. I rarely do figure drawings. But this one has given me a shot in the arm. I shall take your advise and work on more of them.

    You call it a 'gift'. I can't tell you how good that makes me feel.

    Prabal,

    Sorry about the issues that you run into with my blog, and thanks a ton for being good enough to support me in spite of that. Like you said sketches are a good way to loosen yourself up and get back into the groove.

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  7. This is quite good man
    Is this from memory or from some reference?

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