Digital drawings
Drawing has always fascinated me. Our hobbies and likes probably run in our genes. Some of us are inclined towards music, while some are born sports persons, some love acting, some want to read all the time, some like to write like Ruskin Bond, and a few are interested in many things. Why this happens, no one knows. Maybe someone sitting up in the sky decides this before sending you to planet Earth. I think it is similar to how the students are put in different divisions in the school. The teachers decide in which division the new student will join, like A, B, C, D, etc. To cut this story short, I was put in the Drawing division by the teacher.
For me, drawing started in early childhood. In primary school, we used to draw on a black slate using a white pencil. We used to call this pencil as thin लुकडी sister of the fat round chalk😄, which was used by our teachers to write on the big blackboard. I liked drawing so much that after progressing from primary school to higher classes, the last pages of my notebooks were filled with random sketching with an ink pen. I used to do that as and when I felt like (sometimes even when teachers were teaching in the class ).
From 5th standard, we used to have a class for drawing. We had talented teachers who taught us to draw on drawing paper with drawing pencils. The most popular brand of drawing pencil was 'Apsara'.It had pencils in different levels of darkness, like HB,2B,4B,6B, etc, which we used for showing light and shadow, depth in a landscape, etc. Now, sometimes I use 8B,12B pencils also. Graphite pencils, though darker and used widely by experts, are not my cup of tea so far, but I have a set of Derwent pencils for using some time in future. Everyone looked forward to the drawing period because it was a break from studies for most and something of interest for a few like me. Slowly, we learned about watercolours, which can be an absolute joy once you learn the nuances of it. All this learning helped to multifold my interest in drawing. One of the major activities on weekends and during holidays, and in free time, was to draw and paint pictures.
After joining the engineering college, the pencils changed from HB,2B to H,2H,4H, etc, for making sharp lines in engineering drawing. The drawing pencils were left for our personal use only.
After many years, I am now trying to learn Digital drawing using the iPad and Procreate. This is the beginning of new learning, something I am looking forward to with all my eagerness. My first attempt is posted here.
