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5 fun and easy things to create in procreate when you are bored.

by Aejal D. Patel October 3, 2022

written by Aejal D. Patel

How often have you given up the idea of drawing due to indecisiveness? I am guilty of doing that for a hundred times at least . I open my iPad and I scribble for minute or two but I rarely finish something. I take up my phone to find inspiration and lol, within seconds my time for drawing has passed. So I always look for the easy and fun things that I can create. Ideas which are easy to implement, and can be finished within a short period of time.

Some things are too hard to even attempt, some are just to ambitious to think of, and some are just not so fun.So after I won my long battle with procrastination and detangled the web of what to draw, I have come up with this 5 fun and easy ideas that caught my interest. I have attached an example or two for each. Scroll up to see all of them.

1.Mandalas Mandalas are the easiest thing to create with the help of the symmetry tool. I love the patterns and how there is room to do more in each mandala. Each time I draw a mandala I feel rewarded and accomplished to be able to create something so magnificent with little patterns. Here are two which I created recently!

2.Sunflower Sunflowers are the easiest to draw. They are synonymous to happy flowers for me. They always bring me joy. Here also I used the symmetry tool to help me get it done faster. Use the symmetry tool to make this sunflower even more easier.

3. Mystical Forest I love drawing mystical forests. And they are the easiest to draw. Tip:Make use of layers and the opacity option.

Tell me which one do you like better?

4. Wreath. Ever since I began drawing wreaths have been my absolute favourite and guess what you are gonna see a lot of them now that festive season is round the corner. Easy to draw and fun to complete and adorable to look at. The symmetry tool will come in very handy here. And you can use the add text option to add your words and quotes!

5. Draw something random. My something random today is pillows and a rainbow and some florals. It could be anything though. Draw the first thing that comes to your mind when you say random.

So this is it my friends. I hope I have sparked a idea in your idea. I hope your idea make it to your IPad gallery. Comment below and tell me some of your easy and fun ideas that I should try. Do tell me if this was helpful. Share your thoughts below! Until the next post,Adios!

October 3, 2022 0 comments

Drawing Featured Journey Tales

The Enchanting Art Experience!

by Aejal D. Patel March 15, 2021

written by Aejal D. Patel

Sometimes I think I made haste in starting this blog.

Not everyone has a website and an Instagram even before they have a proper foundation in the subject.

But as the name suggests, it’s a journey. And the beginnings should be from point zero.

Now I am at a very crucial point in this art journey.

I have added a few tricks of the trade to my learning hat.

There is some physical and virtual proof of visible progress. It’s like being on that part of the mountain where the plain land seems far away but you are far from that perfect peak you decided to take the journey for.

I did not stick to one person or one medium of learning, but I have gathered that there is one lesson that is advocated by all.

Observe your surroundings, learn to see, is the mantra sung again and again by artists on youtube, blogs, and even in the comment section on Instagram.

Last Sunday of February, We had to go out for some reasons.

We had a long journey ahead of us, so we started before sunrise.

And gosh, I had a glorious opportunity to capture the essence of nature.

Yuh hi Chala playing in the background, and my siblings singing along, plus the serene beauty of the sun and clouds, I observed so much.

Here are a few photographs I clicked and let me tell you how I felt like seeing them for the first time. I have always been interested in clicking pictures of nature, but this was a different experience
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So when we began the journey I thought in my head that the clouds were grey.

In a matter of few minutes, the radiating sun rays changed my whole idea of the clouds. The clouds had a shiny glint on the edges the sun rays were falling on.

A few more minutes and the clouds became shinier. I observed the light and shadow stuff every art YouTuber keeps talking about. It was such an eye-opening sight.

The memory of the sunrise is still so vibrant in my head because I observed so many details. This picture of a lady who started her day with the sun was clicked accidentally but it is one of the best memories of that day.

The route to our destination was filled with Butea monosperma (Sacred Tree) flower trees in bloom.
It was an unusual sight for me to spot so many of them together. Fortunately, we stopped on the way and I was able to click this brilliant sunrise.

Not only did I observe the shape of these beautiful flowers but also the way it is colored. With the orange lines in the middle and the white border-like thing on the edges.

We also witnessed flocks of birds. They followed a pattern even when they flew. It looked so perfectly set with the trees and sky in the background.

When I saw more trees, I remembered the words of Bob Ross- “Give some character to your trees” and the trees in front of me had that exact thing.

Even if they looked straight from a distance they had branches growing from almost every direction. The leaves had more than yellow and green. There was some obvious brown which was caused due to the harsh sun. The bark was much more than brown and black. The size of the trunk gave away an idea of a tree’s age.

On the journey back home my clouds looked something like this. I smiled to myself when I noticed the lighter and darker parts of the cloud.
I knew at that moment that painting is going to be much more interesting from now on.

In a distance, we could see these mountain ranges and again my mind remembered another YouTube tutorial where I followed directions without knowing why I was adding the darker shade.

Initially, my head equated all the shadows to grey. I was so wrong. Shadows should be suggested by the dark colors of the object the shadow is falling on.

When the sun had set, the clouds were back to how they were at the beginning of the day. My way of seeing things changed so much on that day.

I had easy access to trees, clouds, and nature even from my home. I have a garden I so lovingly tend to, but I have not seen anything this way before. But it is truly said that sometimes a change of place and air can give you a new perspective to your eyes. I will not be exaggerating if I say that I have got an extra lens in my eye since that day.

So this was it, the enchanting art experience of nature. Tell me if you had any similar kind of experience. Do all artists see the world this way and more?

Do you think painting makes you more aware of your surroundings? Use the comment section and tell me your thoughts. I look forward to hearing from you.

March 15, 2021 8 comments

Featured Tips

3 tips I wish I had paid heed to as a beginner to drawing.

by Aejal D. Patel June 27, 2020

written by Aejal D. Patel

More often than not I tend to not listen to people.

Come on, where is the fun in listening to what people say?

Of course, the result is a lot of mistakes, and the lessons learned remain stone carved in my memory.

So like every other person trying to learn something, I checked out the tips and tricks of drawing and like a teenage rebel, only heard those and learned to apply them only the hard way.

So here 3 things I learned through experience in spite of the advice being spoon-fed.

1. Make light strokes with your pencil.

This was perhaps the easiest one to follow but alas my stubborn head. I made dark lines. What more, I tried erasing them and the marks just won’t go. I ended up with a dirty smudgy drawing even before I made something nice.

Also, remember how they teach you to make that ‘rough sketch’ before you begin your actual piece. I took that quite literally and my drawing never looked like I wanted to.

What I learned was to make a more deliberate and intentional ‘rough sketch* which was supposed to be my guideline. If my guidelines were good, the chances of my output being well increased.

2. Know my art supplies.

Once my brother gifted me a box of 36 watercolor pencils. Ignorant me did not have any idea of how to use them, and then nor did I have any patience to learn. So like five years old with some pencils and a sharpener, I sharpened them and scribbled away like there was no tomorrow (It was an immense joy).

Now I know how watercolor pencils work and I no longer have my favorite colors. Now I wish to get a box again and plan on using it wisely.

When I began using poster colors, I thought all I would need was a dish and a brush. I was wrong. Water and normal paper is a bad combination. My paper wrinkled and got torn sometimes. It was agony. Luckily I had access to chart paper and old journals to work as a substitute to watercolor paper.

With the correct combination of tools, the endeavor becomes much easier.

3. Let that paper dry.

Whenever I used a water medium to paint, I made a huge mess. I started all well and good but the step where you have to WAIT to let the paper DRY, the demon of impatience took over my hands and you can imagine the colors go haywire.

So now I put on some music whenever I know I have to let the paper dry. The impatience demon plays with music while my hands do the waiting. And believe me, it’s worth waiting for the paper to dry. The end result is much better to look at.

That is all for now from my teeny tiny attempts at learning this art.

Tell me about your fails in the comment section.

Which lesson did you refuse to learn readily and later learned it with experience?

June 27, 2020 4 comments

Drawing Featured Personal

Beginning the journey of more than a lockdown artist!

by Aejal D. Patel June 11, 2020

written by Aejal D. Patel

To begin with, I am not a person who can draw effortlessly. In fact, I might use a scale and the line would still not be straight. But somehow I got into drawing, more of doodling. My bench mates are a witness to doodles in my maths lectures until I started doodling outside of class.

So to feed my brain with some novelty in the monotonous days of the lockdown I started drawing.

I found myself very lucky that of all the things I had with me, I had colours with me.

Instagram proved to be a boon and I got so many tutorials for free.

An Instagram artist who I became very familiar with was Sefi George aka @summer_scribbles.

She posted a new tutorial each day for two months on Instagram plus she answered all my questions. She has everything from landscapes to patterns to doodles in her highlighted stories which was extremely useful for me.

So with some borrowed inspiration from the artists, I started drawing. One thing led to another and I went from drawing to defeat boredom to drawing to do something interesting.

So I used to do an activity related to drawing and colouring each day-watch a tutorial, try a tutorial, follow more people on Instagram, create a new art account on Instagram.
In the monotonous summer days of April and May, I found the knowledge of cool colours and warm colours.

All of these made me very aware of my surrounding, the yellow in the leaves of the plants became visible to me. I sat down one day to observe the setting of the sun one day and discovered that it is not completely yellow at the center, the tinge of red and orange became more definite. Now I know how to turn a circle into a flower or a clock. I liked the change that was happening.

It felt like a vast sea of possibilities opened up for me. I became a curious cat. I want to learn how to paint a sea one day, I want to make my own character doodle, I want to try and make a cactus look cute, I want to draw a bird in flight, I want to draw running water, I want to draw the swimming fishes, I want to draw the mountains too but I no longer want to stop. (Yes yes, it is the Bunny version of me ‘udna chahtu hu ,dodna chahtu hu,’ only in terms of drawing and coloring..)

In the end when all this pandemic stuff is done in the world, (yes I am hopeful), I do not want to remain a lockdown artist.
Hence with a mixture of fear and faith, I invite everyone reading this blog to come, behold my journey.

Which activity kept you entertained this lockdown and you wanted to keep it forever? Which hobby did you pick up? What kept you sane during these crazy days?

Tell us about your tales, I would love to hear your stories.

My Experience in a box

June 11, 2020 12 comments