Can I Go on Like This

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Today I’ll Show the sketch I did of 007 Pierce Brosnan that I mentioned about. This sketch opened and taught me a lot on how to observe very closely. This Sketch was done twice. Before this I had tried sketching the same picture but the first one came out bad, it did not look like Pierce Brosnan but a different man with a similar face structure. I always drew the symmetry line so that the face does not look weird, and I’ve seen artist using it as guide line for various drawings. But I noticed that many portrait artist don’t use this practice but directly start drawing the eyes and gradually the nose, lips and the rest of the face. With This sketch I did the same. I Started with the eyes and as I mentioned above. I came out to be a good sketch of James bond. I was really happy that it came out well. I have tried many Bollywood stars, Pop Singers but I myself was not satisfied.
 I remember once I posted some sketches of mine on Facebook, a lady from my friend’s; friends list sent me a mail regarding the sketches. She liked my work but she wrote that I should stop copying from magazines and photos and try to visualize and bring my own thoughts on my canvas. I really respect her thoughts for a struggling artist like me. I felt it was true. But recently I participated in a Painting work shop; which was my first experience in workshops, where I learnt from a well known Artist from my city, which is in Shillong (In the state of Meghalaya in India, I call him Sir Benedict) that we as an artist we have to practice a lot, because the techniques, style, observation are like tools (I don’t remember the exact words). I realized that if I was not well versed with my tools how I will put my thoughts exactly on canvas. I actually tried doing but I tend to finish my art with something I never thought of. Sometimes the painting would look lovely but most of the time I would not be satisfied and some way destroy what I thought of in the end. I mean to say you think of an elephant but end up painting a Rhino.
That is why I am practicing to draw and paint more realistic paintings; I want them to look as real as possible. This is my technique or my way of learning.
When I attended this painting (still life) workshop, co-artist who attended said that my paintings are like those of the Impressionist artist. I actually do not know anything about impressionist artist. I actually want to do something very different and don’t want to paint or be catagorised as others. But I think I should start learning all the genre or categories (I do not know the term for types of art).
I am planning to join an art school. I don’t know if its right, but I think formal training is essential.
What do you Think?

So Far so Good

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This is where I have reached till this day with my skills. I have been trying to do this since a very long time. But every time I tried doing Portraits, I was never satisfied. The only feedbacks that I got was good and they would not comment more than that. But I always understood that the painting or sketch was not that good enough. They always had flaws. Sometime the Symmetry  was not proper, any eye was smaller and sometimes the sketch and the photo that I was drawing did not match and turn out into a new person.
Last month I started off with Pierce Brosnan of James Bond 007. The Portrait looked very much close to how the Photo was. I forgot to mention I usually practice from Magazines, Pictures, Old Photos and Pictures from the internet. So I finally clicked a picture of my Grandmother’s Portrait which was in my aunt’s house through my cell phone and started on a Sunday morning last month.
I was never confident in doing a portrait of known people; I always had a fear of feedbacks. I did not want people to say that I am not a good artist. But I realize now that all the time I got feedbacks, they were from people who did not understand art. They were people who would not understand art or the effort of the work. And I did not have any one to guide me in this.
I left practicing from 2002. As far as I remember I started practicing from 2007 onwards. One or two in a month, late night after I come back from work.  I worked as a salesman for companies. Most of the Jobs that I worked were not related to art.
Above  I have a scan Image of my drawing and the photo that I clicked using my phone.

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