Schoolism Assignments

Schoolism is an outstanding online art school. I have no words to thank Bobby Chiu and everyone involved in it, for making quality education affordable and available to everyone. I have been taking the superb course by Sam Neilson - Fundamentals of Lighting. He is  an incredible teacher and his lessons are so well laid out and informative. I have learned a lot, in just few classes. These are from his assignments on painting fur and  skin. I tried my best to get the look and feel, But I guess there is a lot to improve. One day I will take a critiqued course for sure, where I can get direct feedback on my submissions directly from the master. 

Airport sketches

I was travelling home for few weeks of vacation in what could be the toughest time of the year. Temperatures in my city soars to 40 degs and beyond in summers. And that stays constantly for two months. I had a wishful thinking of going out during the day and sketch some magnificent historical places. But that seemed literally impossible. So i guess I will postpone my sketch trip, when its much more manageable. 

For now, I just have few sketches of people from the airports. I wonder why I didn't sketch more. But I also sketched some people when i went to see my gran who was being treated in a hospital in her hometown. I couldn't concentrate much as it was tense times for our family then. And that's why just a few pages.

P.S: No no .. Mumbai airport doesn't have such strange creatures, that was from a little toy I saw long time ago.

  

Sketches from Youtube

I am a fan of folk music and youtube is a treasure trove for that. I stumbled upon an folk singer from Kutch called Muralala Marwada. His voice is so soothing, I could listen to his songs for hours together.  I did a sketch of him, but thats for another day, this one is  from one of the bhajans called Vari jaun re, its an amzingly wonderful song. i sketched few people who were part of his band while watching the song and caricatured them later. Here's a couple

Sketches from Last Summer

These are some sketches I did over the last summer. I wish i did a lot more of them. 

There's also one from last Autumn, it was so cold by the end of the painting i couldn't feel my hands anymore.