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 games. I wanted to overcome this addiction to computers gradually. The best way is to find a good Hobby.
Initially, I started with clay modelling. I bought a bunch of polymer clay and started working on it. It was really fun to sculpt some action figures on my own and then bake it.

Sculpting:

As usual, Youtube was my tutor.

Sculpting in polymer clay was really fun. Bought all the tools necessary for sculpting and I indeed sculpted an action figure. I wanted to sculpt a "Dwarf Warrior". I use to play World Of Warcraft a few years back. Though, I did not like the game as such (after playing Guildwars 2), I liked the "Dwarf" Character in that game. After playing GuildWars 2, Every other MMORPG will look too much inferior. GW2 has the most in-depth combat systems, which no other MMORPG has. Ok, I am drifting from my topic I guess. I like Dwarf Warrior, so I sculpted one. Let's keep that simple. How does it look ? It's still not baked. Need to polish a lot. For the first attempt, I felt, this was ok. I am Satisfied.

I am yet to craft him a pike and a shield. I designed an overcoat, obviously, I do not have a picture with overcoat and hood. Since it's not yet baked, the overcoat is sticking to the backside of the Dwarf. So prevent it, I removed overcoat and the hood.

Pencil Sketching:

I use to draw a lot during my school days. I naturally have a love for drawing. But, that was on school days. I haven't touched pen or pencil for last 7 to 8 years. I did most of my work with the help of computers and Smartphones.

I wanted to test my drawing skills. Viewed many videos of pencil drawing on youtube. Every piece of drawing was incredible. As usual, I bought all the necessary items for pencil sketching. Started with a  simple tree and few hills and stuff. Then I concentrated on drawing human figures. Since sketching cannot be mastered in a day, none of my drawings looked good. Everything was really bad. But I kept on trying. Finally one day, I was able to draw a decent "Tree" and then a "lighthouse". I drew both these drawing with the help of a Youtube video.

I called this "Ray of light". I wanted to show, at the time of spring,when the tree lost all of its leaves, even then, there is hope. "Summer" will soon follow. That rays of sunlight are the hope.

I used, Pencils (Graphite) and charcoal in few places.

This one is based on the Light House Drawing tutorial from a Youtuber. (www[dot]youtube[dot]com/watch?v=0bDCeNWLZ3A). I followed every step of his instruction, and I was able to draw this .

The shades are not proper. All the rocks look unrealistic in my drawing. I feel the clouds are decent. But the actual drawing had more depth which is lacking in my drawing.

I tried to draw this drawing on an A6 Notebook. Maybe that's why it looks cramped. Not Sure.

I am planning to draw more. I really love drawing sketches.

Urban Sketching:

Also called as the free form sketching. It became one of my favourites. The Essencense is to capture an emotion and not the actual detail. This looked fantastic. No necessity to draw exact details. Just an outline of what we are observing. I started loving this technique. I am practicing it daily. I will soon share some of the sketches that I drew. 

So I now have 2 forms of the hobby. Sculpting and Sketching. I am really happy and calm when I am sketching. Maybe I will stick to this :)