Pencil Techniques – Graphite By Rahul Deshpande, Gopal Nandurkar

Anant Kulkarni has a long teaching experience in one of the best Art Schools in India, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. Besides teaching he is working as a freelance Illustrator and Designer, with his own style and approach. He gives utmost importance to concept building in his work. These works will inspire art school students, professional artists and art lovers too.  

Artist Shivaji Tupe is actively working in the field of landscape painting for more than fifty years. He has travelled many a place in India in search of subjects for landscape painting. Along with a variety of subjects, he has used watercolour, oil paint, opaque watercolour, acrylics, as his mediums to express his creative urge. In addition he has worked a lot in pen and ink medium in free way. In this book you will find his thoughts about outdoor sketching in pen and ink medium, his working methods and qualities of this medium. When you will see these pen and ink works you will understand the vast creative scope offered by this challenging medium.

Senior artist Maruti Patil, after having many awards to his credit still loves sketching. Here he shares his thoughts and working methods of sketching and drawing the human figure, a subject most budding artists  find challenging. It helps one to understand various ways of sketching like time-sketch, quick-sketch, etc. In addition, the artist shares some different ways of using pencil, pastels and bow-pen. His experience as a teacher for more than 40 years makes his advice useful for everyone who loves sketching and figure drawing.

This book familiarizes you with the technique of shading objects. Besides, at many places only outlines have been given along with the shaded pictures. By looking shaded pictures, one should try to do shading in the given outline.