Viswas Nair TK

Hampi photos now uploaded to flickr

And now for the Caucasian/brown version. I had to correct the eyes, make the nose less round and change the cheek bones to get it this way.  I still wasn’t able to reproduced the original. Realized that the face has to be become thinner which would mean redoing a lot of the work that went in (the paper wouldn’t have been able to handle it anymore). The nose had to become shorter which meant redoing the lips, something which I wasn’t willing to touch (this was the hardest bit). Some of the angles were also wrong. It is amazing how very minute variations in angles can have a huge impact on the looks. 7 billion people in the planet and most of them unique looking. The biological aspect of the origin of unique faces fascinates me.

10 hours of labor. I chose the wrong photo to do this one. It was shot in the dark with a flash, so there was too much lighting and shadows on the face which would look proper only if the background was dark as in the original photo. I couldn’t do the dark background well enough, so the shading turned a Caucasian into an African. I am not satisfied with the accuracy of the reproduction but I like how the face doesn’t look weird. Also managed to damage the paper around the cheek region which gives an acne effect! Good learning experience though. I especially like the way the hair turned out.

This was very challenging because it isn’t a copy from a drawing. I drew this from a color photograph so figuring out the shadow and lighting was hard, especially on the face. The lips and the nose were quite the ordeal. The original had the woman resting her chin on the left hand.  I drew the limbs first and then the face. After spending a lot of time on the face, I realized that the face had to become smaller to do which I would have to redraw large parts of the limbs which I didn’t want to do. I modified it so that the face no longer rests on the arm and added a t-shirt as a filler. The right leg could have been a bit thinner. I also didn’t get the lighting and shadows on the limbs properly because of changes in the posture that was made.

What can I say, I am addicted! :)  The female form is too enticing.

This was a copy of woman sketch by jamie mosher available here: http://jamiemosher.deviantart.com/art/Woman-sketch-187225043

I didn’t like the original bra design and decided to bring in some creativity into this piece by replacing it with a t-shirt bra. I especially like the way the original author handled the collar bone (and my reproduction of it as well). The navel and the left feet was the most challenging part. The missing face and palms made the task a whole lot easier. I made changes to the muscle structure in the thighs and knees by changing the shading. The original looked unusually muscular for a woman. Overall, a very satisfying work with all the curves.

I need to buy my own scanner. The actual drawing looks much more detailed than this scan.

This reproduction of a pencil drawing titled German rider and horse was my first attempt at shading for shadows and lighting. This was drawn upside down. The original had a horse with a wider face. While not intentional, I actually like my leaner horse better. The face came out surprisingly well. The rider seems to be sitting in an awkward angle and his left leg is a little too long. The left arm glove area got a bit messy as compared to the original. Not having to draw a face (saved by the helmet!) made the task easier. 

This is a reproduction of an anime girl I found here: http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/7635/2/1/49653/how-to-draw-an-anime-woman-step-13.htm

I didn’t follow the instructions in this page and went about it my way. I don’t have too many complaints about this one. It was fairly accurate reproduction that was simple to do since it didn’t have any lights and shadows. It was a good exercise in understanding shapes of limbs.

This reproduction of Picasso’s portrait of Igor Stravinsky was done upside down. Being one of my first works, I was quite happy with the picture overall. The face is way too tilted and looks a bit funny around the mouth region. The crossing of fingers looks a bit awkward but then so does it in the original available here:

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso25.html