Circles in Black

CIRCLES BLACK in

Pen and Ink Drawings

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

CIRCLES BLACK in

CIRCLES BLACK in

Pen and Ink Drawings

Narayanan Krishnaswamy 2020

Narayanan Krishnaswamy 2020 Author has the full right on all the photographs, designs or artworks presented here. Any part of this work covered herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks or information storage and retrieval systems with due intimation, credits and acknowledgment of the publisher and author. These artworks are owned by the author and has right of claim over them. This book uses Bookman Old Style. The book design is by the author and the photograph of the author by S. Sujith. narayankrishnaswamy@gmail.com

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The Almighty, Who Wills Me to Create

I was eyeing for a small scribbling pad of 87mm by 130mm in my daughter’s cabinet for a few years. I found the paper inside interesting and I wanted to draw something on it. I took that pad much to her chagrin and started sketching. I drew 296 circles (239 full and 57 partial) circles, in the 20 leaves of the pad with a micro tip sketch pen and an engineer’s template. This was in the first week of August 2019. Then I started filling out each circle with design elements using a Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.1, black and Classmate Octane Gel, black pens. I filled the backgrounds with Camlin Brush Pens of cyan, green, yellow, red or brown in each sheet of the pad. The first drawing was done on August 18, 2019 and the last was done on April 19, 2020. Each of the drawing took about four to five hours to complete. Though time was not a major constraint, mood and opportunity played truant.

The theme for this venture is free flow imagination, strokes and lines and the limits are the circles and the constraint and the scope are the media and the tools used.

I believe this book shall be an inspiration for those who are into drawing, sketching and doodling and connoisseurs of art.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

Dr. N. Krishnaswamy is a design thinker and designer. He has been in the printing and graphic arts and design industry for about four decades. He has published papers on economics, design identity and design management. He is a designer, painter, teacher, sculptor, photographer and writer. He is passionate about colour, shape and walking. Occasionally he escapes into landscaping and gardening.

CIRCLES BLACK in

Pen and Ink Drawings