Sketching

People have many hobbies.
People find many things to do when they are bored.
But Sketching is something I do, to relieve me of tension. I also do it when I am bored, but the best in me, comes out only when I am in tension.
I can never forget the days, when I need to prepare for exams, and I just don't have the mood as I am too bugged or worked up. started with scrawny drawings of tanks and planes. One day, I started trying my hand at drawing the feminine figure. From an artists perspective, the feminine form is the most sought after for sketching. I started with pathetic looking forms, which would have made god, send down thunder and hail to destroy me. LOL! (effects of watching too many cartoons). Not happy with my results, I started to improvise, one part at a time. The part which I found the most challenging, was the face. The face has so many minute details. Make one mistake and the whole sketch is not worth the time and effort. I used to spend hours, trying to get the proportions right, getting the form right, getting the dimensions right. It took a lot of effort to perfect it. I wouldn't say that I am flawless now, but it surely looks feminine when sletched.
The tricky part was the nose. The placement of the nose mattered a lot. If the nose is placed correctly, in the oval or round which forms the face, the rest of the parts fell into place. I had to visualize a lot and be at my creative best to get the placement right.
The eyebrows and the eyes matter a lot. They add a lot of expression and value to a face. Just by tilting the brows a bit, one can change the mood being depicted. They eyes also are important part of the expression on the face. The wrong eyes with the desired eyebrows can give a very confusing and puzzling look to the face. The length of the eye lashes also matters as it can make a woman look more cute, flirty, naughty, etc.
The part where I do the maximum experimentation, is the hair. Trying out new styles, of varying lengths and proportions can alter the overall mood of the person being depicted. The ones which I found the most appealing were the simple long straight hair, with a step cut and the short hair which is partly curled at the ends and gives a very bouncy look to the person. The shading, when it comes to hair, it very interesting. It can add volume to the hair and make it look very alive. The place where it covers the face or where it would obstruct the light, is a bit tricky to do.
Each one has their own views towards art and that's what makes art, ART.
Most of the work that I have done, is by looking at a picture. I am yet to try experimenting with my creativity. I guess, when I do get the time to pursue this as a hobby for a larger part of my time, I would do many more.
I do hope to complete a few sketches of my friends. I have promised a few that I would. But sadly, I do not seem to be getting the right motivation at the moment.
Down are some of my sketches. I am sure most of you would have seen them earlier.

My Favorite one:


A few others:

Beards

Mairaa Pochu is what most of the guys must be thinking, when they read this.
This is all about me and my beard designs.

Everyone knows about them and I am very famous for them too. I am the kind of guy who would love to experiment, an artist of sorts and I found a simple and easy to access canvas with me, my face.
The paint brush was replaced by the Razor and the paint was replaced by the shaving cream/gel. A lil bit of imagination, time to spare and some patience. Hey presto!!!!! New look.

It all started in the 10th standard when I started to shave. I felt that the facial hair looked very awkward and decided to shave it all off, without my parents knowledge. Not that anyone at home noticed it once it was removed. Since then I started to shave regularly. By the 12th std, I was sporting a French beard.

When I joined college, I was all clean shaven as all had warned me about the seniors and all. But, from the second semester onwards, I was sporting my beard designs, much to the annoyance of my seniors, most of whom didn't have much facial growth to be proud of. LOL!!! I also had a senior called Madhusudan (aka Maddy), give me company in my endeavors. :)

My designs included the standard French beard, the thin French, the Jaw Liner, the Rowdy look, Fully Bearded and many more. Maddy was known for his goatee. A thin streak of the beard, from his lower lip to the chin's end. We were notoriously famous for the beards amongst friends and staff. I had this habit of changing the look pretty often. So everyone used to wonder what new style I would sport. If I sported the same style again, they would be disappointed. :P

Recently, I had the fad about growing my hair long. So for two years, I didn't cut my hair. I straightened it once, after about 6-7 months , as my hair is too wavy and intolerable. Surprisingly, it remained straight ever since. I also sported a few wild beards. I grew my beard also long and straightened it.It gave me a metal band member's look. ;)
I sported this look for a long time, scaring people off the road, including cops. The suddenly I decided that I have had enough of all this and shaved my head. This was a rude shock to everyone I knew. LOL!!! They never expected to see me bald all of a sudden. I had a pony tail, which was about 1.7ft in length and overnight, I lost it all. Sudden and shocking, that is how it is with me. LOL!! ;) Soon I got bored with the long beard too and trimmed it, after buying a trimmer. Now I am back to how I was in college. Sporting short hair and a modified version of the Jaw-Liner.

Now that's a hair raising experience.