Animal Sketches II

-

The Amateur Sketch Artist - III

I had already posted some of my sketches in the previous few blogs, I have some more sketches of mine which are worth posting. It had been a while since I blogged as I got caught up with work and other things like reading etc. I have made some time today to continue my blogging experiments. I hope to continue this regularly.

Tiger sketch, pencil sketch
TIGER

This is one of my best sketches. It took me a while to complete since the tiger fur at some parts were white in color which meant I had to carefully remove some of the pencil marks at appropriate places to make it look like a white hair. To make those black marks I had to use darker pencils and also had to take care so that it wouldn't leak into other lighter parts of the sketch. In every sketch the eyes are the most important part since it brings the sketch alive. I spent a considerable amount of time to make it look as realistic as possible. 


Leopard sketch, pencil art
The Leopard
This is also one of the time consuming ones since it had good amount of fur and patterns to sketch. The patterns on this one are short dot like pattern unlike the stripe patterns on the tiger. It took a lot of time to sketch good number of short black patterns because I had to make sure all the dots were in sync and were part of a larger pattern. The best part was sketching the black beard like patterns near the mouth. Since it was dark with light background the contrast appeared good. 


Eagle pencil sketch, pencil art
The Eagle
This was my first attempt at sketching a bird. The inspiration was a photo I saw on the internet of a eagle sitting on a broken tree on a beach. The photo looked so good that it made me grab the pencils after a long time. Birds had different kind of feature. The feathers on the birds were very different from the animal fur patterns. I spent a good amount of time to add details to the feather. Although I would have liked to add more details to make it more realistic I consider it a good first attempt.


The sleepy leopard


The lock down sketch. This is my first sketch in 2 years. As I progress in my career my priorities changed. I had very little time and interest to sketch.  But lockdown due to covid-19 forced me start again. I had too much spare time as I was working from home.This is an attempt to capture some of our mood during a work day after lunch. The inspiration to this sketch is a photo I saw on the Instagram account of Nat Geo wild.


So all of you out there reading this, there is no better way to spend your weekend than on your favorite hobby. So grab your pencils and start drawing...

In the next few post I plan to post some of the photographs from my collections that I found interesting. I hope to make time for it and post it as soon as possible.

If you had missed my other parts of the sketching experiments you can find it here

For visit my Instagram page here:Vignesh Anandan

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Anthem By Ayn Rand

-
Image
Books on Communism and Totalitarianism, part 1 This is my mini Communism and Totalitarianism series of book reviews. I have planned to write my views on the three books which talk about communism and totalitarianism that I have read. The main difference as I have understood between communism and totalitarianism is that the communist society has a few leader or a single party which rules over the people and everything is owned by the community and individuals have no say in it. While in the case of totalitarianism power is in the hands of ruling government or individual and they regulate all aspects of daily life. I feel lucky to have been born in a country under democratic rule.  Anthem By Ayn Rand   The first book I want to write about is Anthem By Ayn Rand. I had read 'The Fountainhead' (review coming soon) by the same author a few months back. I was impressed by her philosophy of objectivism although at some-point I thought it was extreme in its criticism of c...
Read more

The Amateur Photographer

-
Image
Random Photographs  Photos capture the essence of life. It is a way of creating memories. This set of skill and art of presentation comes easily to very few of us. It is a hard skill to master especially if you don't have the right tools at your disposal. In this era where every other guy owns a DSLR and has a facebook/instagram page for photography I feel it is my time now to share some of my photos.  My parents owned a lot of photo albums. They made sure to capture all important events that occur in the family and save those memories so that after a few years we can look at it and smile. Our generation has slowly moved on to era of digital photography wherein we have cameras in our pocket and we capture literally everyday of our life. It is now difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. So I thought I should save some of my best photographs so that it is safe and easy to access. I also don't want my photos to go unnoticed, hence this is my attempt at showing off...
Read more

The Stamp Collector

-
Image
Indian Stamps     In my previous post I wrote about sketching. As I was writing about reviving old hobbies as a way to beat the monotony of life I remembered another hobby of mine which got lost in my so called busy life. It was Stamp collecting . Stamp Collecting is considered one of the most popular hobbies in the world though it is on the decline due to rise of emails and e-messaging. So how did it start ? the 'hobby'? well, when I was in primary school I saw my dad reading his letters from the post (not e-mails actual posts ). I saw those colorful tiny papers attached to the rather plain looking envelope. I thought it was something used for decorative purpose. I started collecting these tiny piece of decorative papers a.k.a stamps. I was very selective while selecting the ones to preserve. But once my dad explained to me about its purpose and how there were a large number of stamps related to a variety of topics I got really curious about stamps.  I used...
Read more