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Comment by Dinesh Francis on June 22, 2012 at 11:24am

@Rashmi, surely Soman is the right person to answer your question about realistic memory drawing... but if you want to learn a bit about 'tooning people from memory, perhaps i can give you a tip or two at the next jam. Or better still, we could try it out 'live' :o)

Comment by Rashmi Patel on June 22, 2012 at 9:27am

All from memory? How do you do it? Can you also remember faces and draw them? Asking cos I was watching some thriller where an artist draws the criminal's face from memory...was wondering how to develop that skill :)

Comment by Soman Patnaik on June 21, 2012 at 10:08pm

Thank you Dhruba for the kind words!

Comment by dhruba mazumder on June 21, 2012 at 8:58pm

amazing, the way u have captured the structure as a whole...bravo!!

Comment by Soman Patnaik on June 21, 2012 at 10:21am

Thank you Usha jee and Prosenjit daa!

@Prosenjit: Thank you for the really well written matter on how its important to develop the skill to recollect and visually see what one is up to before starting on a work from memory. And so very true your words are - like a "mantra". 

Comment by Prosenjit Roy on June 21, 2012 at 1:44am

Btw, I really did mean 'rhinosaurus', and not rhinoceros :P

Comment by Prosenjit Roy on June 21, 2012 at 12:59am

Just wonderful! Never let go of your powerful visual recall, Soman... is all I can humbly say. That is a major area of talent, apart from technical skills. In order to draw/paint what we perceive inwardly, we need to first 'see' it clearly...  the ability to do that can be developed through practice, or quickly lost through dis-use, or over-dependence on the external/manifest reality. The latter has its limitations (can we see a rhinosaurus fly?... we can't, not 'externally' that is!), while the 'inner' world is limitless, both in extent and possibilities. No rules apply there, except those laid down by the artist, who is its creator. In there, you are king, or god or both! :)

Comment by Usha Shantharam on June 20, 2012 at 11:02pm

wow. Awesome.

Comment by Soman Patnaik on June 20, 2012 at 6:03pm

Thank you so much for the encouraging words Vidhu, Franklin, Prabal and Asha!

Comment by Prabal Mallick on June 20, 2012 at 4:58pm

Wah.. That awesome texture and character..

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