The Virtual Friends

Hey you, good-looking people there, same as always but with a special narrative of two people start here.

Please Read the blog to the end for understanding this tale.

                The countryside of this nice afternoon was just concluding with sun giving his slight impish puff of tenderness on the city. The sky has its own mood of colors with the shades of dark blues which slowly but surely cheers up and then orange color shades overlaps akin to the sky with angry smile. At this time of hour, people were ending their day of labor at their respective office. The city seems busy on the roads, but this busy roads and people rush and works doesn’t matters to the two millennial having their perfect chat on the social networks like the virtual friends. There gossips were going on about a month and had decided to meet up on this busy hours of the day. Both were so excited to know each other and made their minds on the subject of what to talk, & the thought of that kept them going all through the afternoon. The time had been stroked, both of them yanks to get ready and meet up at the park in neighborhood of their houses.

                The view was now at the park near an old timber bench, this was first time they are seeing each other in person. They both were standing and facing opposite to each other, deftly searching in this park and after a moment, he feels somewhat and that was a hand on his shoulder having gentle pressure with a voice calling his name. He turned around to see who is that calling his name, and she was her whom he was expecting to meet, both are now facing each other and are not sure where to start, it was a maddeningly state. He was wearing denim shirt with nice light colored jeans and had a men’s scarf around his neck draped in perfect approach and she was wearing white bright shirt having the perfect shine on her body & a black jeans. They were still standing and seeing each other having this predicament. And inscrutable for them to thaw, but one of them told to sit down on the wooden bench, and with small laugh on both faces they sat there.

               Finally they were sitting next to each other on the park bench. The park is a small one on a narrow lane in the middle of the city. It has a playground in one corner with swings, seesaws, and a water fountain. The trees have dropped a thick film of dead leaves that a hide much of the ground and crackle when stepped on. They started their talks with smile and trying to know each other with their questions and laughing intermittently on the things on which they were talking………….. But something is different on that park bench; they both are using their phones while talking, smiling and gazing on the phone screen, & to ensure this doubt we zoomed on the park bench to clear this doubt and found that both are not sitting there. In reality they both are at their own homes, and it was just their talks and chit-chat that made us visualizes the view of both on the park bench. This scene presage that they both are indisputably happy to take their virtual friendships to another level and make this relationship a reality.

               So, here I started to convert my view point picture into the sketch or portrait screening that park bench scene both sitting on it, having phone in their hand chatting to each other. Smiling and gazing at the cell phones like they are not at the bench but at their homes and were uninformed of my view point camera. Here, the sketch started with the usual work and will not repeat it. The main difficulty in this sketch was the detailing of the clothes they wore, the lining of the jeans and the denim shirt, the curves & the curls on the shirts of both, the undulating and straight hair, & the last was giving the proper shades to the characters and the wooden bench with perfect contrast of black shades and white highlights. At last erasing the unwanted smudges around the portrait and giving final touch-ups to the details of the sketch.

So, this was my unique story behind this sketch. Hope you guys reading this and please share and comment. Till then Goodbye.

The Night Lights

Hey people there, I’m back with this new story of night life…. And beautiful art work, So let’s start.

Midnight was approaching, the giant buildings fall silent, but the loudness of young people, college students spilling out of the bar, dark suited man racing across diagonal crossing for the last trains to the villages. Two of the policemen patrol the streets with tense expression. The city plays by its own rules at time like this. The date is about to change. Now at the restaurant, the people have occupied all the tables and are almost filled. A girl sitting by the front window on a four-person table, taking sips of the coffee from the cup of coffee. She has black-grey hair, long and straight, little make-up, no jewelry, and wearing blue with checks designed top and blue jeans with the black branded purse, the faded sneakers from repeated washing. Her phone was kept besides the cup tray on the window table.

She was sighting all the rush at this hour, thinking of something important. She reaches out at regular intervals brings up the coffee cup to her mouth, the music was playing at low volume. Many different kinds of people are taking meals and drinking coffee and enjoying their time at this late-night restaurant, and she raises her hand to glance at the watch to see the time. Not that she was waiting for anyone as she doesn’t look around the restaurant front door. She was just there for time to pass, from the window she can look outside the restaurant on the busy street. Even at this time, street is bright and filled with the people coming and going with a purpose and without a purpose, people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward. She was intensely got jumbled in this thought of the people in the streets with taking nice measured timing for sip of the coffee.

This has been a perfect portrait for my sketch, so as usual I started gathering my sketch tools and sat on the table. I started with the frame of the scene that is the outer picture consisting of the giant building and the traffic, the bright lights, the people rushing in and out of the cafe, bars and restaurant. Then the part inside the window is sketched to get the picture of the sketch that it is perfect or not. After all the rough sketching is being done, it’s time giving the this rough work to give the life by using the graphite pencil of higher grades, blending stumps for smudging some parts of the sketch for smoothing it and the eraser for getting better contrast of the sketch. The building has windows which needs to be seen fading out and is done with lowering the pencil grades and smoothing them after that the peoples are drawn with lighter grades and then the details are added with the higher grades. And other things such as traffics and the sign boards etc are drawn with same manner.

The second part was the girl sitting inside the restaurant, the face should be aligned properly as it appears that she is watching outside the window while drinking coffee from the cup, and for that eyes should be drawn perfectly. The top she wore has too many details in it and was a challenge for me get as much as I can for a perfect picture to visualize. The hands, fingers, the rings in the fingers and the purse rest on her lap, all are drawn with details especially the hand sleeves took much of my time. At last the hair are sketched and some highlights are given to the face. After all the work, it’s time for final touch-ups in the sketch.

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