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25 Feb 2010 A Guide to Figure Drawing

Just the thought of sketching a living human model is enough to send shivers down one’s spine. But if you are going to make a living as a figure artist, then you’ve got to get used to it as soon as you can.

To make yourself more at ease with figure drawing, here are a few tips for you. These will serve as a guide to figure drawing so that you won’t get distracted at the sight of a nude model.

ยท Avoid being caught up in the details of the human figure. That would slow down your work. A technique to make figure drawing a lot easier for you is to try to scribble lightly and loosely just to capture the outline of the figure. Soon, you will be able to figure out the best approach for you.

20 Feb 2010 Plot and Structure in the Short Story

Any story has a particular plot and structure in which all characters play their part. In the short story, there is a wide range of structures and plot forms. A traditional or typical plot consists of a beginning with introduction of the problem, middle – development of the problem, and an end that elaborates the problem. If you read and study a story, you’ll find that it comprises of these elements.

Less Predictable Plots:

As the trend set by the former writers, most of the writers write stories in a typical way which is often predictable. Nevertheless, some writers break through the typical plot structure and venture into less predictable plots. One of such powerful writers is Canadian Margaret Atwood. Her Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother (1983) seems to be plot-less but it is intentionally divided into 13 brief episodes.

Complicating the Plot Structure Using Certain Techniques:

16 Feb 2010 My First Tattoo

If you are toying with the idea of getting your first tattoo done, have questions about the whole process and are feeling anxiety about getting it done; relax because most everyone feels the same about their first tattoo. Most peoples minds play games with them and they develop a fear of the unknown. This feeling has an adverse effect on most and makes us shy away from doing some of the things that we really want to do, like getting my first tattoo, but are afraid to take a chance. Rolla coasters are a good example for most people.

The best way to overcome fears of the tattooing process is to read books and articles and become familiar with what exactly will be involved in the tattoo experience. This way you will be aware of each step in the process and know precisely what to expect before the needle starts buzzing. In this article, I will tell you, from start to finish, each step involved in tattooing.

05 Feb 2010 Special Prayers

Why prayers have lead role to play?
No one can offer any explanation and say?
How is that it gives immediate relief to mind?
We find Joy and happiness of special kind

It is serving as medicine to ailing body
Prayer is only alternative left to everybody
No restriction on visiting any holy place
So long it serves purpose and offers solace

It has unique way of offering calm
Peace prevails without any particular harm
It has tremendous impact on rage and fury
Relieves of any tension and no addition of worry

What generally do we offer in our prayers?
Do we go there as sellers or buyers?
Is that only our purpose for getting relief?
Does that not strengthen or faith and belief/

We know that we have many compulsions
So many thought bombs explode with fusions
It has its own chain action and reaction
Then where do they go for simple perfection?

28 Jan 2010 Goethe’s Theory of Colours

In 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took issue with Newton and the scientific establishment. Not that Newton was not a brilliant man, but he was influenced by methods which tried too hard to define and did not stop to glance out of the corner of the eye, for this is how people are sometimes prone to do things.

Newton saw darkness as simply an absence of light, but Goethe had seen it sideways and had noticed that darkness and light work together, and only then does colour appear on the margins between the two. What is more, we have to stand back a little to see them and, in doing so, should simply observe. Anything else will be too much and the image will fade, as anyone who has enjoyed the works of Turner or Kandinsky will know.