FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING

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.

Samoyed (PSF)
Pearson Scott Foresman,

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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