It's Amazing What a Minuscule Pencil Stroke Can do...

Well honestly I never thought photo realistic portraits really do exist. Even if they did appear all over the web,I was very much convinced that, if a portrait looks too real then it must be a photoshop effect. But I decided to give it a try and find out if all those stunningly-real portraits can really be created by mere strokes of something as normal as a pencil.

AND...

It seems possible...especially it started soundin more convincing after i tried my hand at one such portrait. :) And here goes the result...

There are people around the world who come up with a lot of interesting things through practice. One such person is Darell Tank whose portraits have that incredible realism about them. With tools as cliche as pencils, eraser, cotton and a blending stump he proved that uncompromising dimension can be created.
It's not just him. There are loads of other people too who have the gift of capturing art on a piece of paper with the ultimate touch of realism to it. But it's still intriguing to believe that no matter how small the stroke of the pencil is, it still makes a huge difference to the end result: It can simply make or break your work.

Real Happiness

“Look at the whole thing. You never think why you are miserable — you are simply miserable. Whenever you are happy you start looking, “Why am I happy?” Misery seems to be natural; happiness seems to be something unnatural happening sometimes. Misery is your state and happiness is your hankering. An enlightened person is simply happy, just as you are simply miserable. Simply happy! and is never miserable. Even sometimes when the shoe pinches, he simply puts it right. It is not misery, it is simply physical pain — a discomfort, but not misery. He simply puts the feet right; he changes the shoes, or he walks without the shoe. Discomfort can happen to an enlightened man, but never misery — because how can misery happen? When there is no cause for his blissfulness misery is impossible. you caused, you cannot destroy it. Uncaused, how can you take it away? Uncaused, there is no opposite to it. This is real happiness.”

- OSHO

    Simply loved it!

  Hope to experience happiness in its truest form...

The 3 P's that changed my Life

Ever wondered that there might be a word which sounds so "perfect" (sorry for lack of a better word! :p) and positive that it might trick you into believing that it actually is what it sounds like when in reality it has more negative attached to it than anything positive?


Well, "PERFECTIONISM" is one such word.


Now, the first time when i heard this word i thought it had something to do with all the perfect things and those who practiced it were perfect. But then, one great day i came across an article on perfectionism (thanx to google!) and my "PERCEPTION" changed.


Perfectionism, according to psychologists, is a belief wherein the person ( i.e. the perfectionist) very strongly believes that perfection can and should be attained. A perfectionist's most often used phrases go somewhat this way..." I can't start my project until I know the 'right' way to do it ", " Oh! I can't believe I don't know how to go about solving that problem", " I'm unable to understand why I'm not doing my work in spite of knowing exactly how to do it perfectly well; It's driving me nuts; when will i ever stop PROCRASTINATING?"

The perfectionist is almost always obsessed with doing things in a perfect way that he/she almost always loses sight of the main purpose. In short, a perfectionist, like someone said, "cannot see the trees in a forest". In other words, this is an individual who becomes so focused on the tiny details that they forget that there is a purpose to what they are doing. That is why some perfectionists become procrastinators. The perfectionist is like the person who has a fully fueled car, has an international driving license, knows all the traffic rules and above all, knows how exactly to drive well but never gets around to driving. 

To some extent perfectionism has few positive traits like driving the person to achieve his/her's goals. But beyond that point, i.e, when the obsession crosses limits it leads to a number of negative effects such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive-disorders, lack of motivation, rigidity and immobilization. Because of all these reasons he/she never gets around to actually doing the things they want to do. They actually give up things altogether just because they believe they can never do that thing perfectly. So it's something like either do it perfectly or leave it for good.


Perfectionism did pay me a visit a couple of years ago but unfortunately i haven't realized it until about a month ago. In fact i didn't even know that i was actually having some psychological problem. All those times i was putting away things saying that i didn't have mood i was thinking i was just lazy. But then the obsession reached that point where i was actually noticing changes in my behavioral patterns...a few years ago for eg, i used to read a lot of new books every now and then, i used to do all those things that fancied me then at that point of time. 


For the past couple of years and more so in the last year I've seen myself crawl through all those days where i wanted to do many things i was interested in but wasn't able to get myself to start any of them. And trust me when i say that if there's an award for "googled the most number of times" it should be conferred upon me :p. Honestly, I guess I've googled for almost every minuscule thing that ever crossed my mind right from the most clichéd to the most bizarre of things. 


And it was one such googling that changed my PERCEPTION about PERFECTIONISM and helped me understand why I was the PROCRASTINATOR that I was. So I'm working to overcome all these negative effects now and i guess it's working coz i don't think this blog post would've ever surfaced on my blog if i were still procrastinating!!! :):p 




P.S: After a long time i spent my day really well today by doing all those things that i love...completed this sketch today...:):p

The Bliss of Innocence

I REMEMBER...


My first day at school at the age of 3…where I made myself comfy by hiding at my sis’s feet(she was in first class and there was a lot of room for me beneath her bench) playing, a top which I brought from home, till my class teacher came looking for me…

The days I used to run around like my daddy’s little girl, helping him clean his bike( though it wasn’t much really, I used to feel I was doing all the work…:p )

The days when my mom used to do all sorts of lovely things just to ensure that I ate.

The days when me n my sis used to play all the world’s most funniest games till we had no more energy left.

The days when my brother used to take me for joy rides, going down the lanes that I randomly pointed at.

The day my mother tried so hard just to bring back the smile on my crying face.

My first day at the new big school in my second class…where the mere strength of the class…a whopping 72 students was enough to make me get a fake stomach ache so I could sleep in the last bench :p

The days when I used to curl into my mom’s lap, feeling gloomy, on a Sunday night… ( had to go back to school on mon…:) )

How many of those kids forced to work at those hotels or construction sites REMEMBER such things?

I ask: How can something be remembered when it hasn’t even happened? ...

Every child is equally innocent and has got every right to enjoy that bliss of innocence. 

Sunscreen

These are parts of the song sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann which i liked...some simple facts of life:

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked...

You're not as fat as you Imagine.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind.

Do one thing everyday that scares you.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours

Don't waste your time on jealousy;

Sometimes you're ahead,

Sometimes You're behind.

The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;

If you Succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your

Life.

The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings;

They are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on.

After a looong time...

Huh...finally after a looong time got myself to sketch a pic...good to see dat i haven't forgotten these things...

Just A Day for everythin n never a lifetime!

Thanks to all the "DAYS"...the friendship day, the mother's day, the father's day, the valentine's day... each one of these days was dedicated to specially honor the various good relationships a human makes throughout a lifetime...but now its a different case...coz if not for these days, most relationships don't seem to exist...as the modern man has wrongly assumed them to be the only days on which to express a love for a relationship.Can't imagine what wud've happened if not for these days...huh? maybe we shud have a "remembrance day" just so we don't forget the main purpose.