pen on paper

Normally I don't prefer blending the digital tools and traditional art stuff. But this was an experiment, and I should say it was a success by the overwhelming response that I got from my facebook page. It started out as a normal sketch as usual but as it began to take shape I wanted to make it even better which eventually made me to fill out the background with some cool (dark) color so that the features stood out. This is the first time where I'm adding something with a software to a drawing, I barely adjust the darkness/lightness to make it compatible with different screen brightness.

Selfie

I've heard this kind of story many a times.  Once you deliver 100% of your efforts to bring out the best in you, you die.  Yes, myths say that. I'll share one here...

It goes like this, there was a great artist sometime back and he did an idol of a goddess(I don't know the artist and goddess). The sculpture was so perfect that it inherited the best form it can acquire.  This artist on returning home just fainted and passed.
This  thought was looping in my head the whole time I did this portrait,  and just to make it safe I've not completed it.

nayantara

This lady is a leading actress in the south Indian film industry. For no specific reasons I never liked this lady. As always this beauty also fell prey for fame and controversies. Despite the controversies now I'm a great fan and if given a chance, would love to make a live portrait of hers!!!

Tom Hanks

Hope this year I would realize the resolution made, (completing 2 posts a month which adds to 24 posts). This was a quick one, one of my favorite actor.  Of course you would be more informed about this talent than me ;). Please do share your comments..

Anoushka Shankar

"When you do a portrait study the next time just pick one of my profile picture from Facebook". I've heard this from many of my friends. Of course I would be really happy to pick any of them and choose a good picture from the already hand picked ones(which always sorts out as profile pictures). But every time I end up doing something else. This time also, the case was no different.

I always admired the pluck instruments and one of the performance from this great artist was looping in my playlist.  Eventually, this was the result...

Charcoal and Mars Lumograph on 120 gsm paper

Saffron Burrows

Some where late last year I've read that we've to try different mediums. Who knows which one's is best suited for us? This one came out as a result of that...
 Here I used Camel soft pastels in my 120GSM sketch pad. Hope it's not that bad :)

Arundhati Roy

Here comes the second one for the year...