Sketchbook Thread of Maulik Kataria

#52

Hi Maulik, that piece on black paper turned out nice! I think the right side of his face is a bit too wide and the shading of his nose causes a bit of distortion (his nose points a bit the wrong way). But it is a very good shading exercise. Keep going!

#53

I see what you are saying, but it’s difficult to judge since the expression has pretty much pushed and pulled the muscles. Thanks for the comment though, it will be helpful next time I draw.

#54

Nice drawings, Maulik. I like that you’re doing these on a toned paper so that you can add white to it. I love seeing people draw this way. Did you check out the site of Scott Burdick that I posted in my thread? There are some really amazing works done with charcoal by his wife, Susan. On a toned paper too, with subtle touches of white. Maybe doing some studies of her works would be agreat idea. Just a thought though.
Mmm, I’m so envious that you go to a life drawing class, I would sooo love to do that myself but nooo, there aren’t any where I live.
I should stop whinning about this everywhere, hehe, but it’s so unfair!
Haha, well, good luck to you!

#55

Hey thanks Razz, I had seen that link but somehow missed those drawings made on toned paper. Thanks for the link :slight_smile: I saw them amazing work, cant describe in words. I really love working on toned paper because it’s amzing how using the tone of paper itself making it a local color you can achieve great result with minimum shading. I am gonna post some more stuff pretty soon done on toned paper. With paper thing is that if you expose white more it makes it really bad becasue it is percieved as a highlight. Here it will be local color so it’s pretty cool.

Oh I feel sorry man, I know it’s unfair. Even back in India where I lived we dont have such life drawing classes. And so I was really lucky to have one here. But you can go out and draw real people with time you will learn a lot. Besides you are already doing great considering that you are really young, you are damn lucky man. I wish I had started pretty early learning art.

#56

I am really bad at updating my thread regulary… But here are some of the drawings I did this quarter.

These are 20 minutes drawings from my college’s sketchclub.
(First one: Black china marker on blue canson paper)




And these are the drawings done with ink. In first page I also used water color and they are close to half n hour time. Others are quick 3 minutes or less gesture drawings with ink and brush.



#57

Hey Maulik!
Great work man!
I really like the first image of your last post…shading is grainy and gives a good effect.
And the line drawings are also great coz you are drawing the figure using minimum lines which is a good practise!

keep posting…

Ratul

#58

Thanks for commeing Ratul. The grainy effect is because of the paper texture and china markers.

here are some more.
First 3 again sketclub 20 min poses.


This one is long pose figure drawing class

All these are 3 minutes gesture drawings


#59

I like the last ones in blue and brown

keep going :slight_smile:

#60

Thanks Johan :slight_smile: Even my professor liked the last one in blue :slight_smile: That one is done with china marker

#61

Here are completed drapery and plastercast drawings. The plastercast did not turn well in terms of proportions or likeliness. But somewhat I am satisfied with the final result. I learned a lot.

Comments welcome :slight_smile:

#62

beautiful work Flash

lot’s of volume in the drapery
and you did an excellent job on the lighting on the buste!

#63

Hey Maulik! Really nice studies, man! I see great progress here… keep up the good work!:thumbsup:

#64

Hey Maulik!
Brilliant work!! :thumbsup:
You’ve progressed so much…The last two pieces show your advancing skill…real pleasure looking at your work!

Keep posting…
Ratul

#65

Hey Johan, thanks for studying my work in more detail. Thanks for the comments as well.

Hey Anand, it’s good to get commented by senior artists. I am glad to hear good things from you.

Ratul, I am glad that you liked the work :slight_smile: How is your practice going. When is the next update?

Here are some more:

This is my drawing 1 assignment for perspective with ink and wash.

Self portrait using mirror. I like it somewhat, but there are proportions issues I dont like. Anyway this is my first selfportrait from mirror so I was happy eventually. But I wish I could go back and redo several things.

#66

Hi Maulik

few crits:
the perspective study is really nice. I think you could have made the tree more interesting though, since it is in the foreground. Also, because of the high contrast around the tree, it has become the focal point of this piece. I guess you wanted the viewer to focus mainly on the house?

The SP:

be careful not to skew the facial features when the head is under an angle.
nitpicking: one glass is bigger than the other.
the lighting is great, love how you rendered the highlights in your hair!

great work, as usual!
keep ‘em comin’!

#67

Hey Johan, thanks so much for the crits. I totally agree with all you said. I see that the tree is taking away the attention. After I started painting with ink-wash it got dark and I had no way to change it. But thanks for pointing that out. For self portrait I agree I had realized that features have skew, but I really did not want to rework the whole thing. I actually took it into photoshop and tried to figure out more about proportions and skewness. It’s really good that you figured that out easily :slight_smile: I had a hard time, I knew things were wrong but I was not sure what to change.

Keep commenting and critiquing :slight_smile:

#68

Here is a one more master copy we did as part of our life drawing assignment. It’s done with white charcoal on black paper. The size of the drawing is 36"x58". We did this large bcause it is easier to study all details on a large piece.

#69

WOW Maulik!
That last piece is SO beautiful :bounce: :applause:…KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!
You inspire me a lot! :thumbsup:

Ratul

#70

Hi Maulik, great work! Your renderings look really smooth! The last piece is great. Must be difficult to work on black background adding white. Keep going!

#71

Thanks Bart and Ratul for good words.

It’s actually interesting working with white charcoal on black paper. Though I have not done any acutal drawing from life on such medium. Actually if works really well with dramatic lighting, some of my fellow students have done really amazing work with this medium.