Bird's Sketches

Story Behind My Krishna's Painting

Hi Friends welcome back. Hope things are going well on you ends.

I remember the day I decided to do something different. I came up with an idea of sketching  a drawing, then colouring it and then adding some materials on it. After making the decision, I started looking for an painting object.

One day after evening prayer, suddenly, a thought arose in my mind. Thought of drawing any god idol. Without wasting any time I started looking for examples and ideas for my painting. I spend a full night just to think for my start up.

Very next day I started collecting my materials, drew some rough sketches ( my ideas) on how my painting would look like, asked my family to give me some ideas. Finally I started working on my final painting. It took me 3 weeks to complete this paintings. But as it is said Fruits of patience are always sweet.

I ended up with a beautiful painting which you can see in my last post. I would like to hear feedback and more ideas. 

Lord Krishna Painting

Hello friends,

It being a long time. I hope you all are having fun in last days of this year. This are the days when we start thanking for the good things happen this year. So was I, thinking, thanking and praying for wellness of everyone for coming year.

I was remembering what good things happened this year and what did I learn. Including my drawing passion and how far did I reach. While thinking this, I ran to my cupboard where I keep my drawings, paintings, awards, and all the things I want to keep forever. I was looking for my this years drawing collection so I can show it to you.

Surprisingly, not only I found my this years collection I found my one of the beautiful drawings. And today I am going to show it to you. There is a short story behind this painting which I will share in my next post. This is one of my favourite drawing. I spend hours on it and I believe it did worth. I hope this inspires you to learn painting.

I always suggest to follow your heart and do what you love. That is only the way you can be successful.
Until we meet next time, keep doing what you love.
 Dont forget to Thank god for giving such a beautiful life. Wish you a very Happy and Safe New Year :) !

A start up in Pencil Shading.

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Art is something which encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations and modes of expression including music, literature, film, sculpture and paintings. Do you know how many types of arts are there? A lot, if we start listing types of art then we can’t finish it very soon. Here, I have some of the them .The different types of art include: Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Printmaking, Painting, Electronic media such as Computer and Digital graphics, Visual design, Graphic design, collage, Photography and Post-modern appropriation, Re-Contextualisation, Happenings, Installation, Land Art, Video Art, Body Art, Conceptual Art, Fine Art, and Creative Art and many more. I know it is still long list but the question is that is learning art easy? Some may say yes, other may say no. But I would say nothing is hard if you are eager and passionate to learn something. First thing you should ask your self is what type of art do you want to learn? If you want to learn Drawing and Painting then you are at right place.

Before going further I would like to inform you that you should already be known to basic drawing like drawing objects, shapes and Shading strokes. And also about the basic material you need for it like special paper and pencil sets. If you don't know about materials go to Basic Material.

As we know that there are many techniques in Pencil shading, so your useful technique actually depends on your goal of what you are going to draw.For revising I have some of the styles and techniques here, they are Realistic or not Realistic, Cartoon type, 3D, Naturalistic or Representational.So chose your style you are comfortable with.

Let’s start with Normal shading you need Sketch or Graphite pencil set and Cartridge Paper (A1 size)

The main and basic part of pencil shading is moving your pencil back and forth gently.

First with a very little force press your pencil lead on paper and then move your pencil smoothly like butter to other side,as shown in picture.Let the graphite get spread on paper in even tone.For now just keep trying doing normal shade.I would suggest you to buy basic shading book which re extremely helpful for beginners and are in budget too.In next post we will talk about drawing shapes and shade in them.Until that keep practising..!

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1st stage of Pencil Shading

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In last blog, we talked about basic strokes and now lets move on to next step.This step is drawing shape and shade in it.Did you buy any Shading Book(shapes)? Yes? then its great! But if no, then don't worry you just should be knowing how to draw shape and then you can shade in it.From now we are turning alittle bit towards realistic pencil shading.
You need:
Pencil set, Paper Eraser and Sharpener.

Our shade basically depends on the angle of our object to light.I have a picture which will help you understand what I am talking about.You can see at different angle shaded areas gets different.So starting from here firstly start drawing a shape like circle or square with very light border. Then Assume that light is in top left corner.Start light shading in whole shape.Keeping the area lighter which is faced towards light,the area hidden to light shade it darker. This show reflection of light on object and makes it look like real. Then give it a darker border so it creates a feeling of actual object.Make as many shapes you can and shade it. I know first you aren't going to make it perfect nobody can in first try,but remember the saying," Practise makes a man perfect".Keep practising on simple shapes (circle, square, rectangle, or triangle) or objects(boxes,egg, vegetables or fruits)chose whatever you prefer.Then shade in them keeping light from any of the corner or side.We will next talk about next step that is making more complicated shapes and shade them.
I have some of my drawings below here which will give you some idea to what to draw at this stage:
        First simple shapes and shades
        And next time we will learn a bit complicated
I will always provide you some of my drawings in every blog.Share your ideas, thoughts and concerns with me.

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2nd Stage of Pencil Shading

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Hope you are doing well today.Have you ever tried colour pencils for shading? Well today we are going to talk about it. We drew many simple shapes but with only black pencil though.Now what I want you to do is add some colours to your drawings. Its very similar, simple and interesting.
You need.
A paper, Pencils,Eraser, Pencil colours.
Take a paper and start drawing some shapes or fruits or whatever you like.Then as we done before asume that light is coming from one corner(any corner). Then start shading it light with pencil colours.Do you know why I suggest to shade lighter first? Its just because you can easily shade lighter in to darker but it becomes very messy when you try to reverse it as darker shade to lighter one. Just keep in mind in simple way that "light is always First".

As shown in given picture try to shade the original colours to the drawing.Like red for Carrot and green for Okra (Lady-finger). This bring originality in drawing. See how I shaded the light part first and took it up to dark side. It means the light is coming from top-left corner so I shaded it that way. Its not always necessary to keep the light on any one corner-side, keep where ever you prefer but shade it in that way so it shop up as real.As the angle of object to light changes, the shade is also changed relatively.



Keep practising different shapes...play with colours and enjoy.

Keep sharing your ideas,thoughts and concerns.

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Pencil shading video.

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I hope you all are doing well and are practising pencil shading.I thought that written explanation might not help to all of you and there are many visual learner out there,so I have a video teaching you whatever we covered so far and also some more interesting things. This is a video by Mr. Pearson, so he will be teaching you shading in solid shapes.In this video you can see how he draws few shapes and shade in them differently.He uses different techniques and also explains about light reflection on object. See how he shade some areas with less forces(the areas faced to light) and some dark areas and shadow.I also want you to notice different techniques he covers as we are not going to talk about them much.Watch the video and tell me if it was helpful or not.Should I keep posting different videos tutorials or you are doing okay with written description 

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