About me:
My name is Navin. Born in 1975, Drawing and painting have been my hobbies on and off. In this series, I'm going to cover some of my works.
How it all Started?
I don’t remember clearly at the moment but then if I’m right, I started taking interest towards drawing when I was of around 12 years old. I also am not clear what drew me closer to drawing as such. I think I basically did not like to study so, I wanted to vent it out through some other channel and I probably chose drawing then. A couple of consolation prizes gave me the required impetus to surge ahead. Then, life took its own course, I became busy with school board exams, went to college and totally forgot drawing and painting.
Re-Entry:
Somewhere around 2008-2009, my wife came to know that I could draw and she wanted me to pursue the art form because we thought my son could pick some of it. I haven’t learnt drawing and painting formally. Though, I love to learn it formally at some point of time in my life. I personally think that I need to improve on the finish aspect.
My works are created after observing some of other greats’ works in websites like http://www.stars-portraits.com/en/
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Here are some of my favorite works I did between 2008 and 2010. These are free-hand portraits & no grids / measurements are used.
I decided to write about these works, one-at-a time, starting with this one now:
Johnny Depp:
Year: 2009
Medium: HB and B Pencils, charcoal, eraser, stubs
Inspiration: A colored photograph of Johnny Depp was used and just the shades were picked from it to transform the work into this black and white portrait.
Description: The background was done with charcoal. It is better to use charcoal at the end because it has the tendency to sully the other parts of the sheet. Also, the darker areas in the hair near the forehead got the charred effect due to the coal. The beard hair and the wavery effect in the hair is done using 6B pencils. The wrinkles in the shirt are captured by drawing with hb pencils and then using erasers and paper stubs over that. Also, the flashes in the face and forehead are the effect of getting a grey shade first using HB pencil and then using erasers in the center part to bring in the contrast. I personally like the details in the specs. It has black, grey and white shades rightly mixed due to proper pencil shading and using erasers in various levels of contrast.
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