Monday 12 May 2014

People sketches at Marina


After a hectic week of work, I found our CWA group was meeting at Marina beach on saturday evening. I decided to try and focus on sketching people like I did some time back at the park.  But somehow the architect in me always gets drawn to straight lines and perspectives so just to get that out of the system I did a quick one of "Endrum Vasantham Cool Bar" a shack that sold water and soft drinks on the beach.
Then I told myself firmly "only people!!"" and loosened up with this sleeping guy. After that I turned around 180 degrees exactly where I sat and before I knew it another perspective sketch. Oh no! What's wrong with me :(
An hour had gone by and I could stay at most another hour. By then I realised I was on the last 3 pages of my sketchbook so I decided to make it count.
Lot of people just come and sit on the promenade wall as its the largest free open space with great breeze.
By then we were a group of 6 or 7 sketchers so I sneaked one of Kandaswamy. That guy in the upper corner was on his phone the whole hour and probably longer after I left.
And I finally reached the last page of my sketchbook. It's a fat one that I inaugurated in June 2011. Felt great to reach the end and then flip back and look at the journey. By 7.30 I wrapped up at the beach and headed to a friend's house for dinner. Their daughter is six and a half months old and moves with blinding speed on the floor!


3 comments:

  1. I can see that you had a nice time at the beach. Your people sketches are pretty good and the one of the person sleeping on the concrete bench is really nice.

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  2. Dear Kaybee..you need to loosen up a LOT more. Let your pen flow.
    All your people are stiff and straight. I always found people on the beach slouched and were shapeless masses, mostly obese. You seem to have found people in great shape and holding very good postures! Nithya Balaji

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  3. Thanks for your candid comments! Yes totally agree. People are my weakest :( and have some good days and bad days. But I did feel a couple of these are not too bad.

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