Page 1 of my Strathmore Sketch pad.
Here’s my recent attempt on El (Millie Bobby Brown) from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things.
Upon the completion of this drawing, I conceived some thoughts on artistry, particularly pencil drawing:
•I’d like to think drawing as the portal between two worlds: our world and oblivion, where the artist is its gatekeeper and his/her media, the keys.
•I’d like to think artists as those who not only possess the deftness of visualization, but also the ability to percept ultrasonic screeches from entities stuck and forgotten within the walls of blank canvases, waiting to be let out. Strange.
•I’d also like to think a pencil artist as a “compassionate sorcerer” who with the subtle strokes of his/her wand and the seething darkness spewing from its tip, conjures up his/her deepest epiphanies from a clean slate. Dark magic, huh.
•I’d finally like to think that just like alpha numerics, drawing should be learned and not necessarily inherent, thus, all humans are artists, making us gods of some sort from the aforementioned thoughts. Hence, before that bob start clanking repeatedly on our aluminium coated mindscapes, yelling, “I’m not talented, so I can’t draw; or I’ll never reach the levels of elite artists”, remember that not all Greek gods reside at the summit of Mount Olympus, not even the nine Muses; but we budding artists can only strive to get there.
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Cheemnonso™
I love this drawing, you my friend have a gift!!!!
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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Excellent work!
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Thanks. I’m really glad you love it
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Beautiful work of ART Anand Bose from Kerala
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Thanks for your kind words.
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Very impressive – your use of tone and rendering is excellent. Thank you for sharing this. 🙂
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Thanks so much for your kind words.
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Yes, when I used to practice sketching, I had similar experiences, sensing worlds unseeen waiting to be drawn and expressed. And when I combined it with writing, it was even more so – stories and images waiting to be brought into the physical.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. This helpful and inspiring!
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I so glad you find it inspiring. Thanks for your kind words.
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The pencil as ‘compassionate sorcerer’ is a brilliant analogy.
Love the picture.
Gwen.
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Thanks for always spurring me on, Gwen. Glad you love it.
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