dav  Pen-Ink-Watercolor sketch of a small roadside hairdresser shop. Done from a reference photograph by Deepak Satarkar. Full video of this illustration here: https://youtu.be/CJ2YXLZNlVc Materials used: – Brustro toned sketch paper – Watercolor (Assorted colors). – Inks (Assorted colors) – Fineliner pens – White ballpoint pen Subscribe to this channel: https://tinyurl.com/y7txefqx ..read more

dav A preview of the YouTube video of a colorful painting using mixed media. For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/aShgVAJluOg A4 size toned paper and mixed media (description in the YouTube video) Don’t forget to subscribe! Happy sketching  ..read more

Few more sketches done since last few days using pens, inks, watercolors, or simply watercolors. A watercolor painted live with Urban Sketchers group of PuneI saw this rusty DP box surrounded by weed on the roadside and knew then and there that I needed to draw this. Pen, inks, and watercolor over poster board paper.A coastal village. Painted from a reference picture by a friend. Pen, inks, and watercolor on a poster board paper ..read more

New abstract videos after a hiatus. Click on the painting to watch the ‘making of’ video ..read more

I just got a new Fude pen. This pen has a skewed nib, and can be used both as a brush pen and a fine liner. I am loving it for my urban sketches. With watercolors, it produces a unique effect. This is a highly dilapidated building in the vicinity of my office. It’s one of the clusters of small buildings situated side by side. The color has almost peeled off, the windows and doors are in a disarray. The parapets for the windows have almost crumbled. The building itself looks like it may crumble any time. Still, it is inhabited. While I was doing the sketch, a curious fellow approached me and a ..read more

A fude pen + watercolor sketch using some restrained coloring ..read more

Some experiments with watercolors and the brand new fude fountain pen ..read more

When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade. And when life throws negative reviews at you, use them as inspirations for the next books! In September last year, I published my first book, Get-Set-Sketch. I got a negative review where the reviewer mentioned that the instructions were not so great and were perfunctory. However, he also mentioned that the step-by-step demonstration at the end was the best part. So I thought, why not use this feedback as the basis of the next book? And thus was born ‘Sketch like a Boss!’, a drawing instruction book with 20 such step-by-step demos! And the next part ..read more

A pen-inks-watercolor sketch of the french countryside houses done off a reference photograph by a photographer friend of mine ..read more

A pen, inks and watercolor sketch done today from a reference photograph by my friend ..read more