krishlogs: sketch

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

■ look ma .. my sketch got published!

sometimes what Ma says turns out to be correct....let me rephrase it.. most of the time what Ma says turns out to be correct... umm .... who am i kidding.. she is correct each and every time!

The last time when I pledged myself that I'll never sketch in my life, she was wise enough to ignore my amateurish decision. She made me take drawing courses and had said.. 'bachche, you are going to thank me some day!'.

Years passed by, nothing happened. I joined college. I thought, may be I could woo girls with my sketches ( it's not me, blame the copious amount of testosterone) but then who would care for a guy with a pencil and paper when there was a dude who could play violin like SRK did in Mohabbaten or the guy who sang like sonu nigam. Chicks dug them...aur ek gaana sunao naa... woh waali dhun bajao naa.....I had cursed myself one more time for taking drawing courses.
(both are very close friends of mine :) K sings awesome, R plays too good! )

Some more years passed by, as usual not much happened.
One day I got a comment to one of my sketch on this very blog, requesting for a commissioned sketch for a book cover! Imagine Fardeen Khan's reaction if he gets a call from Christopher Nolan for casting him in his upcoming movie!

I was like..was someone messing with me?? a practical joke may be...things like this don't happen to me..it was too good to be true!

my sketch got published.. yep, once again mom proved herself right :)

Greatful thanks to K.Mathur for writing the novel "Never Mind Yaar" and giving me an opportunity to contribute.

kind request to all - if you liked the excerpts of the book please do spread about the novel "NEVER MIND YAAR"

Here is my sketch on the novel's website.

Here are the links:

Never Mind Yaar: http://nevermindyaar.com/
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About the book

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

■ sketch: ages

pencils: 9B 6B HB and Mechanical pencils.
reference: reference pic from flickr.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

■ sketch: ramu kaka

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pencils: 9B 6B HB and Mechanical pencils.
reference: reference pic from flickr. Sincere gratitude to the photographer.

kaka in the making:

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Monday, November 24, 2008

sketch:SIMRAN

SIMRAN: reference sketch of a pic I found in net.
donno her name but decided to call her Simran when i started the sketch.

pencils: 9B 6B HB and Mechanical pencils.
duration: approx 17 hrs over a span of 2 weeks.

been quite some time since i made the last sketch.. sometime around feb.
feeling gr8 :)

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

■ I'll never sketch in my life!

"I will never ever sketch in my life!" I swore that in the name of Sridevi when I was a kid (back then Sridevi ruled all over my adolescent heart, currently Katrina and Drew Barrymore share a joint account).

I cud sense that my mother had plans running in the back of her mind to add 'value' to my as such worthless life. During a usual gossip session with next door neighbor Mrs. Sen, mom learnt that her daughter was going for singing lessons. She became determined as ever and I ended up getting enrolled in a drawing course!

Wondering whats bad with a drawing course? well,even my grey cells weren't developed enough to foresee the fact that my classes were scheduled on sundays. 'SUNDAYS' were as important to me as election day to Obama! A regular morning on those days would go me firmly glued with the idiot box.

Hell broke loose. My mom was now between me and my weekly dose of much awaited pure joy! I pleaded for mercy, was out right rejected in 'high court'. Only hope now left was the Supreme Court! I build up my case, pointed out that it will affect my studies and all other reasons that my 'chota sa dimaag' could think of! To my horror the verdict went against me! I cried loud, cried hard, cried while eating, while sleeping but could not move the lady! Injustice was done to the minority!

The day arrived, was accompanied by mother to the institute. I was not the only one serving the sentence. A bunch of toddlers were also victim of the injustice. The pain and sorrow was visible. Back then If Aamir Khan wud have planned for his directorial debut with TZP, I wud have been the most suitable candidate!

I missed Mickey mouse, TaleSpin, DuckTales, Tom n Jerry to name a few! While the fortunate ones watched He-Man (my fave till date, I had the He-Man toy from Mattel and worshiped it!), I was left to make circles and lines. I will never ever forget those miserable days.

It was not before long that the squares I drew, started having four sides, cows got four legs, birds which were tired flying were given legs to rest, the desert started having palm tree in place of the coniferous pine and kids got five fingers, even the missing nose.

Honest enough, the magnificent portraits by Jack Dawson, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic inspired me for figure sketches. I have come a long way now with the aversion finally turning to a passion. I njoy my sketches. Gratitude to my dad who has constantly supported me, my art teacher for his patience of teaching this 'Fardeen Khan' to 'act' and specially to my mother for shoving me to the art institute - thanx Maa.