The Invisible Energy Lines!

This is a sketch of Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor!My  interpretation for this week Caricaturama.  - in which artists from all over the world contest by drawing one celebrity, every week. If you are a budding cartoonist this is a FB page to visit.

I used PEN AND PEN-BRUSH 
The whole sketch is held together by some invisible lines - which i call ENERGY LINES!
Even though the viewer will not see the lines , he will feel it .. He will feel the coherence that make the sketch working together as a whole.

I draw these ENERGY LINES in the rough pencil sketch. After I draw the pen lines I erase the pencil lines. Those lines will be something like this 

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KravMaga SreeRam, Chennai. 9380000555

1 subject - 2 treatments

Line vs wash. Weiwei by KravMaga SreeRam

Taking one subject and doing 2 different medium is a stimulating exercise. Especially if the artist chooses to experiment with 2 contrasting styles, like -

Line vs Wash

Water color vs charcoal

Pencil vs acrylic

Many of the great artists are versatile. They did their initial study in quick chalk, charcoal sketches before going for the formal oil paint.

Sometimes these casual strokes have more life and vibrancy than the final product which is executed with lots of deliberation.

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Artist - KravMaga SreeRam
Pen and Water color

Size without border - 27 x 30 cm

Ref. No. 20

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Ph;  0-934 000 66 00

Please don't reproduce in any medium, in any form without formal permission of the painter. 

Jacques Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau by KravMaga SreeRam

Artist - KravMaga SreeRam
Pen and Water color on Paper

Size without border - 25 x 20 cm

Ref. No. 13

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Ph;  0-934 000 66 00

Please don't reproduce in any medium, in any form without formal permission of the painter.