The lines in the drawings are the most important part to convey the feeling and message of the artist. In modern times its value depends upon the artist’s patience, the better the patience the more beautiful will be the drawing. It is most efficient and less resource requiring art, you can draw onto papers, boards, canvas, and indeed on anything you want. One of the most important things that an artist should follow is conveying expression in the drawings because the basis of this art is to make your subject expressive. If you are not a master of emotions in the drawings then you will not able to draw perfectly and whenever you draw your subjects will express different emotions rather than a targeted ones. When you get deep inside Kalra’s drawings you will get to know that his drawings are not a piece of paper and lines but they depict a beautiful relationship between a pencil and paper who meet with each other and produce art that does not fade with time but get more bold and beautiful.
Drawing is the basic step of all paintings and we cannot hop to the painting without practicing and mastering drawing. In a way, drawings are the painting skeleton, as a human body consists of bones for the right structure with the same way the drawings are the bones of the paintings. The lines in the drawings are the most important part to convey the feeling and message of the artist. Drawings are one of the first works by human beings in the development of communication. They are one of the basic constituents for paintings; we find different kinds of drawings in the caves as well as in the manuscripts.
Due to the basic requirement of drawings for all visual artists, it is very important for the artists even from ancient times. Michelangelo and Leonardo are two of the most famous artist who gives huge importance to their drawings in Renaissance Italy. In modern times its value depends upon the artist’s patience, the better the patience the more beautiful will be the drawing.
The structure and techniques of the drawings get changed from ancient to medieval to modern times. It was a primary part of the expression in the old days when humans were learning to communicate. Due to the lack of resources in the old days, the expression was limited but due to the presence of sufficient resources and techniques, it start to get diminish in the medieval and renaissance age. It was the time when artists were using drawing as rough work for the more important artistic representations. For instance, whenever an artist tries to make a sculpture or painting, he/she draw a draft of drawings to make them more beautiful and artistic. It was the time when the drawing was covering itself with colors and becoming a painting.
The importance of the drawings lie in their property of getting diminishes into the colors
In modern times, drawing got more mature and artistic well as it makes itself an unavoidable part of the painting. Drawing in the modern age is the most underrated one but its importance in painting is unavoidable. We cannot make a single great painting without drawing. Nowadays, the importance of the drawings lies in their importance of getting diminishes into the colors to be reborn as the painting.
Painting is just another form of drawing or you can say that it is a mature form of drawing. When drawing gets more mature and expressive then it is called painting. Although, it does not lose its total significance in this modern world. Even now, drawings are very important for practicing painting. When you become more efficient and expert in drawing then you can proceed towards great painting. It is most efficient and less resource requiring art, you can draw onto papers, boards, canvas, and indeed on anything you want.
Conveying expression in the drawings
When we observe it more deeply and logically we found out that they are interested in their own ways. The artists in modern times are experimenting with this art and compositing with the painting. One of these artists is Vikash Kalra. In the drawings of the Vikash Kalra, we find great exploration and search of self. The artist’s style does not match with Rembrandt but the expressions of the subjects prove that he got successful in this ancient method to convey his messages efficiently.
In his drawings, we find the great art style of both surrealism and abstracts. Sometimes we get to observe different types of subjects similar in style but differ in expression. One of the most important things that an artist should follow is conveying expression in the drawings because the basis of this art is to make your subject expressive. If you are not a master of emotions in the drawings then you will not able to draw perfectly and whenever you draw your subjects will express different emotions rather than targeted ones.
Immediate and easy execution
It is completely true that there is no rule in the drawing and in Vikash’s drawings we find that he is a master of expression without considering the rules and regulations. He usually draws not to express but practice his artistic views. He said that he likes to draw for practice as well as for generating ideas for his paintings.
In the right sense, the drawings are a private part of his life. It is very near to his heart due to immediate and easy execution. He even said that he loves his drawing that much that he dreams of making drawings as well as he can see drawings in the different situations of his life.
Starting and ending of a drawing are not in the control of the artist. It germinate from any unconscious thought and last for many pages and sometimes for the ages. If we deeply observe the drawings of Vikash Kalra then we will find that his paintings are the children of his drawings. We find these types of relations in many artists’ works. For instance, most of the FN Souza works of paintings are upgraded versions of his drawings.
A beautiful relationship between a pencil and paper
Vikash Kalra’s drawings are very materialistic as well as we find that they are influenced by the situations and incidents occurring inside his niche. The subjects seem to be drinking, smoking, making out, screaming, laughing and etc. One thing that is common in all these expressions is hope. Hope is the most common part of the subjects of his drawings. We find hope is the single thread that binds all of his drawings with each other.
When you get deep inside in his drawings you will get to know that his drawings are not a piece of paper and lines but they depict a beautiful relationship between a pencil and paper who meet with each other and produce art that does not fade with time but get more bold and beautiful.
Many drawings of Mr. Kalra are turbulent and we find many unnecessary pencil strokes but this doesn’t diminish the expression of the subjects and maybe this is the biggest reason of connectivity between his drawings and viewers.
Vikash Kalra is a self-taught artist and writer based in New Delhi whose work has been exhibited across India and is held in several private and corporate collections.