In Some thoughts on Sketch Books, I had mentioned that one of the things that I am concious of when drawing is that someone is going to look at my sketch later. On introspection, I felt that this gets in the way of my drawing because it ‘snaps’ me out of my involvement of my drawing repeatedly. I find myself unnecessarily prettying the drawing when I should be just going with the flow.
A Chess Metaphor
Perhaps I cannot articulate this properly, so let me use …

In previous posts we covered 2 crucial aspects. What the process of drawing is and how one can learn to see the world differently through the process of drawing. Both these articles may be useful as a background to this post.
All artists meditate. In fact I would go as far as to say that true art is meditation, and that the process of creating is nothing more than coming to terms with what you really are. When the process is finished the end result is an empty shell. A reminder …

Drawing is really darned scary for so many people. “I can’t draw.” “Did you draw that with your own hand?” (Yes, who else’s!) “Eeee… these are really bad drawings. Don’t look at them.” “I don’t draw because I don’t know how.” “I am a graphic designer so I don’t have to draw.” “My left toe hurts so I can’t draw.” The list of excuses is endless. So here’s some more demystifying tips for those happy folks who’ve got a sketchbook close at hand and a desire to draw in their …

Go-Ju is a Japanese term, meaning Hard and Soft. I think it originated from the term Go-ju ryu, meaning hard-soft style in karate, a Japanese martial art form. The concept of hard and soft refers to a system of yielding and pressing forward, a sort of push and pull if you will. The system recognises that in an engagement, the opponent uses force as well and this force can also be used alongside one’s own force of attack. You can see this more readily in martial art forms such as …

We met at Koshy’s on St.Mark’s road on Sunday for our sketch session. 6 people turned up in all for the jam, and we moved to Java city on church st.

English is sometimes a funny language. The word drawing is misleading. People associate drawing to drawings, but the first word refers to the process and the other is an end result. It’s like the word – building. Wouldn’t you rather just call it Built or Builts? Like a Drawn or Drawns? See?