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.

Pencil and paper are the most preliminary but important materials which open the creative world of drawing to artists. There are many ways to handle the pencil.

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.

‘Sketching’ is a unique book of its kind. Written by well-known illustrator Pratap Mulick who has planned it on the basic of lifelong artistic exploration of his career. The author has attempted to highlight various aspects of sketching and figure drawing. The book undoubtedly is very useful for students and artists as it shows Indian models in their cultural and historical diversity. Set in easy-to-read type, each topic has been captioned in simple terms.

In this book one can get detailed introduction about the use of colour pencils as an important medium for landscapes, figures, still-life and birds / animals too. Mastery over drawing and precision in the use of the medium are the highlights of this concise book.

This book by Gopal Nandurkar and Rahul Deshpande is one of the ‘Methods & Techniques’ series. It details the use of different types of pastels such as soft pastels, oil pastels, pastel pencils and pastels with other media.