Urban Sketching - Italy Colosseum Building

 Italy Colosseum Building Sketch The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. I got this picture from google. I started sketching a part of it in the landscape mode. Initial, I started with a pencil drawing....

Urban Sketching - a hill and a windmill

I leave this upto viewers imagination. ;) This hill did not come out good :) I wanted to show elevation using foreshortening technique. unless explained, it is difficult to visualize. :) A Windmill : Practicing cross hatching. I feel it came out decent :) let me know in comments section how...

Urban Sketches more drawings.

Here are some more urban sketches , Random Street from google photos. Perspective is not proper. I tried to sketch using pencil, then added ink. I got this from google photos again. A vending van with some items. I am still not confident about drawing people. So i decided to concentrate only...

Urban Sketches , Practice Drawings for this week

Some of my weekly sketches :) Recently i have been practicing lots of urban sketching. I like it so much that i draw 3 to 4 sketches a day. Tried to draw a random google photos location. I did not get to read info about the location. I will try to add those to my other sketches....

My Venture into Arts :)

I have been starting to divert my attention from computers to sketching. I am a computer freak. I spend almost 16 hours a day in front of the computer. Mostly coding, watching movies, downloading books, reading online news, blogs, and Games.By the way, I am a GAMER. I play a lot of MMORPG and MMOBA...

Datamaps : Dynamically loading a map based on url parameter.

There are quite a number of data Visualisation tools in the market. Most of them are derived from the same source "D3.js". D3.js is "Data-Driven Documents". Derived from D3js is "Datamaps". It's a very good library for plotting quick maps. I have a problem statement wherein I want to plot different map based on the URL query. If the URL query has "USA" in it, I need to plot a USA graph. If...

The magic of Human energy

What is all about this meditation and yoga ? How can it help in changing my life ? Most people have the notion that, yoga can make you healthier and meditation can calm one's mind. This is the generic idea which everyone has. Though it is partially true, there is a deeper meaning and explanation for everything. Every great Guru knows this and they preach the same, but usually people get it wrong. Now...

"Best of Everything" Syndrome

Life is not very pleasant, Life is too boring, Life is a burden, Life has nothing but sorrow is what I have seen people saying around. I sometimes have the same feeling like others. But recently I found some peace within myself after diverting my attentions to different activities. I just wanted to share small things that can change everyone's life if they are willing to change. This is neither...