It is a truth universally acknowledged, by many a creative person, that expensive notebooks are traps. The beauty of them, the craft involved in making them, is not in question. But it is their very beauty and craft that makes a creative person pause, hesitate, worry, over what goes in it, be it scribble or […]
Last week I went to a couple of art exhibitions & a museum workshop, and they got me thinking about Art. Now, I try to think about Art as little as possible, regard it from the corner of my eye, never cohere it in my inner ear. It’s the background noise to my chosen occupation […]
Tinkering with these drawing videos, I think I’ve figured out a pace I like. 2x timelapses seem to be a happy medium between the slow, methodical real-time videos, and the ultra-fast ones that are 4 or even 8x sped-up. For now I’m using the Hyperlapse app on my phone to easily spit out timelapses; it’s […]
I like to start most drawing sessions with a sketch in one of several practice or sketchbooks I have running at any time. Some of them are focused topic sketchbooks, such as my Creatures Sketchbook (more on that in a future post), and some are less so. Such is my current ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ sketchbook, […]
I’ve been using my youtube channel again. Ever since I got my LG G3 phone a couple of years ago, I’ve tried to use the great camera, UHD 4K video recording included, to take more video. Mostly this has been on weekend trips to the Indian countryside, but also I’ve used it to record to-camera […]