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?