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| Saptarshighosh, Rajiv Gandhi |
RAJIV GANDHI Here we can see a portrait of a celebrity. From the portrait, we can see
how the artist has taken care of every aspect of the drawing.
The portrait artist Saptarshi
Ghosh released this art piece in Public Domain in the year 2008, for the
good of all budding artists. For inspiration and learning the fundamental
of the art of drawing. He used graphite for drawing this portrait.
Every form of art has its own beauty. While carrying the special beauty,
every art requires certain basic fundamental principles to be observed while
doing the same.
Look at the portrait of Rajiv Gandhi. He was the Prime Minister of India. he was assassinated in a tragic incident. Here the artist has wonderfully portrayed the facial expression of an ever-pleasant man.
Get Together All the Help An artist uses various resources while doing his or her pencil drawing or painting. You can use your sketchbook or the photographs of the object or the scene to be drawn. Instructions available in art books and on videos would be a great help for beginners. Finally, if you can spare regular hours, thinking about attending a painting or drawing course would be a great idea.
Before going on the actual drawing work you would have to get the materials for it. Pencils of HB and B type in all the numbers would be your ready help and need, too. But you would require deciding about the paper wisely. The paper makes or breaks your pencil drawing.
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THE MATERIALS If the paper is pale, that would not do well
either. The smoother the surface of the paper, it would not allow the more pencil to put
the right amount of particles on it. It would not allow the artist to keep
proper pressure on the tip of the pencil. In the beginning, you can use the
ordinary paper that is used for photocopying. Take two or three papers and put
them on cardboard. That would give you more freedom to draw the linings and
execute the darker and lighter parts of the shading work.
KNOW ABOUT SHADING: For
showing contrast of light, the skilful use of a pencil is required. In pencil
drawing, shading work is an aspect that could extract the best from an
artist. Balanced shading of pencil would create an image as beautiful as we
would have in other mediums like watercolour and oil colour. Colours have
different tonal values. Shading in pencil drawing is just like putting
different tonal values of these colours shown in black and white form. By
selecting a proper colour and then applying the same in different tonal values,
an artist recreates his or her mental images on canvas or on paper.
If you are a beginner, then the example of portrait drawing can be taken as
some of the best examples of learning art. Whenever I feel like
drawing a portrait, I take a print-out of one of my friends and take the help
of regular weaponry: the 3B and 4B pencil, eraser, and a bunch of A4 papers.
You can try it by drawing your self-portrait. Only you have to spare an hour
and a room with the doors shut. Try it today. [All the images are taken from Wikimedia Commoms]
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