STRENGTH IS DEFINITELY THE LIFE!

Life is truly about enjoying every step.... It is immaterial whether the step is on a lakhs worth marble floor in a centralised AC hall of a 7 star hotel with ur rbk gear on or on a thorny way with a bare foot under a scrotching sun.

We always think that a tough situation or a happening which comes by, which we obviously don't wish to, is always bad. But in real sense its that particular instance where we have to face it with a great sense of maturity. In short we need Strength. Swami Vivekananda always preached the same, ' STRENGTH IS LIFE and weakness is death'.

Its real fun to sketch a personality whom I love, respect, truly admire and much more beyond all these.......

Its the same in this case, as i really enjoyed while i spent time on Swami. Its an even different feeling if the sketch is a bit unique. Like in this case, its just the face and a merged neck, which must always gives the viewer a feeling of viewing Swami as a whole. I always forget my past and wassup in the future, while am with a charcoal stick for such sketches. This is in fact my second sketch of Swami while the first was in early stages of the millennium in 2001. It was made of a clutch pencil with a 0.5mm lead. Its always challenging to achieve the originality with a pencil that too with a 0.5 lead. If my memory is good, that was my first portrait to be framed.
I was very much overwhelmed with the response i got for the sketch, until one person, Mr. Nagaraj Bevur, happened to see it. Actually i must have mentioned him in my first post itself.

Mr. Bevur is an employee of GTTC, B'lore. GTTC happens to be the place where i pursued my Diploma. He at first praised the skill. but later he started to pull out the loop holes in it. He was the first to make me realise that the merging of two patches was the most important and the necessity for a charcoal sketch. I am very thankful to him for his golden words and the palm tree he sketched to make me realise. Even though he spoke to me for few mins, it made a huge difference in my life and those words were for my lifetime.

The one most unforgettable coincidence while i was making this sketch is that my granny happened to pass away at my native at the same time. She had breathed her last when i was giving finishing touches and meanwhile my cousin was capturing the video of the sketching. Received the call when i was about to view the clip. It was on a Sunday, 4Feb2007, at around 2000Hrs. This is perhaps the most unforgettable sketch of my lifetime, one is for it being the personality i admire, and the other of which i need not mention.

The small clip of the same ( Kindly ignore the audio):



Striving to improve on my skills as the days are rolling by. My blog would be a bit boring to most of you. Its a bitter truth for me. Am really sorry for those who feel so.