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One of my friends is running a successful business in Anekal, near Bengaluru, Karnataka. He has a small temple in the premises. I found the idol of the Lord Shiva quite interesting. I took a picture and drew it with pens and ink.
Coloured pencil drawing
Drawn digitally inspired by a pretty AI generated painting
Red Door, watercolour drawing. I drew this with the aim of gifting to a friend who had no option but to accept it.
Digital drawing of the famous London bus.
Got inspired by a photo in one of the web sites that offer free images. I used pens, ink and the stippling technique.
The same recreated digitally
Graphite pencil drawing of the cups on our kitchen shelf lit by a shaft of evening sunlight.
Digital drawing of a photo I saw on the internet
Pen and ink drawing of the Indian Railways coach
I was watching an old Bollywood movie (Chhalia) song on YouTube. A particular frame fascinated me. The perspective, the grey values fascinated me. I drew this with graphite pencils on cartridge paper. I used white gel pen (Uniball Signo) to add white highlights.
Digital drawing. The reference was a nice photo taken by my cousin in his gated community, near Kodaikkanal.
During the second wave of COVID, there was a sense of hopelessness in the air. I conceptualised and drew this to remind myself that there is a way out from the abyss of despair to a bright future. Graphite and charcoal pencils.
Pen and ink drawing
After a watercolour wash
Graphite pencil drawing from a lovely photo by our friend Mr. Goutham Ramesh. I used a coloured pencil only for the lemon.
Lord Ganesha. I drew this on request from a close friend. The original was a pencil drawing. I chose pen, ink and stippling. My friends and relatives liked it very much.
Coloured pencil on ivory board
Coloured pencil on drawing paper. I was not aware of any blending technique at that time.
Coloured pencil on drawing paper. In both cases, I didn't know how to achieve darker values for the creases in the balloon. That especially was a problem with the watercolour version.
A rainy day: Graphite pencils from 2B to 8B on cartridge paper. This is from a pencil sketching tutorial on YouTube. I found this one quite fascinating and challenging. It was interesting to fix the vanishing point and adjust the grey levels to depict the aerial gaze.
Pen and ink drawing depicting an erstwhile computer room. I drew this a long time back for a close friend. He wanted to use this in his computer trainings.
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