Sketchbook Thread of sanpaiya

#1

i have been a lurker for quite some time now. . and did not want to post here coz i am a little intimidated my all the awesome work i see here . . but i’ll miss out on all the invaluable critiques if i stay away too long… so finally. . (thanks to Anand’s constant reminders ), i am posting my works here. . but i am not sure if the nature of my works fit here, ,
my works mainly evolve out of mindless doodles. . and remain mindless. .
i’ll start from some earlier works .
inspiered by Rembrandt’s landscapes i saw the previous day . . PS CS2

after trick of light by Stephen Pierce (link) love his work

the hand came out a little stiff . esp the screen right one .

#2

The second one is very good.

#3

Oh! Finally!!

Great start, man!:thumbsup: Looking forward to lots of awesome stuff from you!

#4

Beautiful stuff, welcome. :slight_smile:

#5

Great to see you here !!

good start of thread . . I always love to see grayscale paintings.

Keep them coming!

#6

thank you mister3d . .
thank you for the warm welcome anand,rebeccak . i am a big fan :slight_smile: .
hey deepam. . nice to see you too . .
some stuff from wayyy back . . 2000-01 :slight_smile:
from ref . . quick one. . glassmarker on colored paper

from life . . cadle light study . rotring .20 pen (click image of full view)

pencil on tiny paper

#7

the OFDW-new bargue . could not post it then . .
After Gio’s head

After Anand’s old lady

#8

Hmmmm… :thumbsup:
Keep thm coming …

#9

Hey man! Awesome technique!:thumbsup: Glad to see the old woman!:smiley: Just a small suggestion: use construction lines to keep the eyes level and the nose and the mouth in line. (Flip the image and you will see :smiley: )
Keep 'em coming buddy! Cant wait to see more!:bounce:

#10

oh wow:eek: great stuff here man! i love the texture that you put into your pieces. it’s so loosely done yet very precise. bravo.

#11

great lighting and form study and i really like the gio model copy. Nicely done.

#12

kasana : :slight_smile: will do . . i think i’ll put more recent stuff up now . . the more u critisize the better i become :stuck_out_tongue:

anand : yup … can u believe, when i was a ‘frog in the well’ , i was naive enough to belive that i found out bot it myself :slight_smile: . used to take my paintings in front of the mirror often . beck in the days that i used to paint :stuck_out_tongue: lol .

monicaitt : thank you for dropping by and the nice comments. . glad u like my work . i have been admiring the works of a lot of artists who used to paint with a lot of ease . . the flow . . but precice . sadly none of their canvases are online . Hebbar , J.S.Khanderao , J.M.S Mani . . and little know artists like ganesh K , who i was lucky enough to learn from . . never seen anyone paint in watercolors so spontaenously. . other than Chandranath Acharya . been tryin to emulate their free flowing styles . i’ll try and get some of their works online. . herez one illustarion by chandranath acharya.

Phrenzy84 : thank you for your nice comment. .

#13

more recent work … bot a few months ago . .
had just discovered the power of tilt sensitivity of the pen on PS . round brush
overlayed a scratched metal texture on top once i was done with the piece .
with ref

a doodle. . PS crashed . a low rez screenshot is all i could salvage… love the way the eyes turned out . . tryin to speak

pastel on handmade paper . . with ref from the amazing photographer Xavier Zimbardo’s book ‘India Holy Song’ … hav done this sadhu a lot of times… but i still cant get the expression he has in the photograph

#14

Pai…I love first one…esp. the skin tone. I can feel his age and his life under the sun.

#15

Wow your OFDW-new bargue is really cool. I can almost touch the forms. Really well done.

#16

thanx kasana. . i liked that one too . . esp the colors… and the feel of the sun . .

hey ted thank you for the visit. .glad u liked it. .

herez some pretty recent work .
used really bright colors in the first coat. . and tried to control them as i went on painting.
liked the feel of bright indian sunlight on this one too . .

portrait of Les paul from ref. . was a beautiful photo . .
painter IX with the scratch board rake

water color cakes (bad ones . . too gritty and tend to fade ) on tiny paper.
ref from nat geo mag . . article on pakistan

#17

wow! atlast “you too brutus”!
hehe! man so glad to see this here! it is an inspiration to me too! absolutely great start. the girl and the green head[new bargue] are brilliant! keep updating. thanks to anand bhai to inspire you to do such great things here.[i got my hp pavillion two weeks back am waiting for my tablet now then i would be joining you all]:beer:

#18

Hey Santhosh! Awesome stuff again, needless to say!! :thumbsup:

Ratheesh, LOL!! I didn’t inspire him or anything, just nagged him till he started the thread just to have some peace of mind!:smiley:

#19

hey ratheesh . . nice to c u here… cant wait to see ya work… i recently bot a wacom . . but still not usin it properly. . :frowning: . .
herez the first doodle with it. .

and experimented with colors under it.

@ anand. . lol , , u did manage to get me off my lazy ass. .

some more works. . i’d suggest these to be viewed from a distance. . or with half closed eyes :stuck_out_tongue:

#20

Going great pai… liked the first and one in water color.
you knw I appreciate the process maintain…but more good is you keep the feeling n emotion … I may lost after workin in diff. pathes or layers

But at the same…I got the feel tht in Portraits you are very comfortable now…let us see something else…:arteest:… YEEEAAAH !