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Keynote from the artist on this collection
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Good sketchers can breakdown and transform a two dimensional surface (canvas) into a three dimensional space by creating an illusion through spatial arrangement of objects. Well renowned artists made separate detail sketches of individual objects before they imported those objects on to their masterpieces.
In order to learn the art of sketching, one has to have a strong sense of the basic forms found in nature. If you are a beginner, start with lines and then with more complex forms like squares, cubes, circles, spheres, cones and cylinders. Make your subconscious mind register the hidden forms in each of the objects. Once you have got the elementary objects figured out, then the relative position and proportion of each object with respect to other masses around it becomes important.
Knowledge of the above concepts is the stepping stone to the perception of horizon and planes. Given the option to place a light source, you can further the illusion of volume and direction by applying lights and shadows. Like my teacher said, sometimes you just have to look really hard to carve out the image from all the distractions around it as if you are trying to break the shape out of the canvas.
The usual tools used by sketchers for creating black and white contrasts are pencils and charcoals. One can also use sepia and crayons to bring out colored objects. Depending on the charcoal inside, pencils are of two types - hard (H) and soft (B). The hard pencils have lighter tones and are used for preliminary sketching. Soft pencils have darker tones, so are habitually used for shading. You will experience the same distinction in vine charcoal category as well.
I was fortunate to see the sketches made by two of my favorite artists, Leonardo da Vinci (@ metropolitan museum of art, New York) and Rembrandt (@ Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama). These exhibits made me wonder the amount of time each might have spent to master the level of perfection that they had attained in creating such beautiful works of art. In today’s day and age, such dedication to art would probably be considered as pure insanity.
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Sumesh Sukumar
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Mar 2012
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