Ink Flows & Colours

Over the past few months as I’ve struggled to find the words to write, I rediscovered my love for sketching and playing with colours. I began with putting pencil to paper, before moving on to experimenting with pastels. But recently, for my birthday I was given an Apple Pencil to use with my iPad and was encouraged to draw with it. Initially it was difficult to draw from scratch on an iPad, as I still preferred putting pencil to paper, but I found that the Apple Pencil was the perfect tool to use to colour in my sketches, not to mention more satisfying than using pastels.  I fell in love with the craft immediately.

The process itself is really neat; you can use separate layers to work on different areas of your sketch without interfering with others, there’s a variety of brushes and inking styles, an infinite number of colours to play and so much more I have yet to still discover.  It’s become such a relaxing part of my day, and have easily spent hours simply playing with different techniques and trying out new tools.  Now that the weather is warmer, I’m finding myself spending much more time outdoors, hence the creation of new sketches has been slow, but I have no doubt that I’ll get right back into it in no time. It honestly used to frustrate me whenever I’d lose the writing practice that I’d worked so diligently to build, however, it’s often because I begin to place more focus on something else. And I’m realizing now that whatever it is that captures my focus, is often just as important to my well being and happiness as writing has always been.

At the end of the day, writing, sketching, painting and photography are all just a number of ways for me to express my creativity, and I’m just thankful that I have the ability to do so, as well the opportunity to share it with all of you.  This is the first photo that I’ve completed, and the original sketch below. As always thank you for your support. I hope you’re all staying safe and keeping healthy. 

– Vidhya