Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium. Instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax colour pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, various metals (such as silverpoint), and electronic drawing. An artist who practices or works in technical drawing may be called a drafter, draftsman, or draughtsman.

  • Design Schools or Design Institutes in India

    India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.

    For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.

    In last few years common entrance test like MH-AAC-CAT (Maharashtra Applied Arts & Crafts Common Aptitude Test) are introduced in Maharashtra state. By passing this test it allows you to choose between art colleges for graduation in Maharashtra.

    Graduation in Design
    You have to start to learn design only through Art Colleges as there are no design colleges available for graduation in design.
    But there are few courses available to graduate in Design from NID & IDC.
    NID has ‘Graduate Diploma Program in Design (GDPD)’

    Following are the famous art collages mainly in Maharashtra, India.

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  • Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!

    Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right…

    Not like olden days when you only have to visit art gallery exhibition to see art & get inspired with…

    Here are few links that I find as inspiration to learn & do design…

    Apple Developer
    A website dedicated to Apple Mac, iOS & safari developers. Registration is free & site is loaded with deleopment learning videos & ebook learning resources… So happy Learning…!!!

    Adobe Developer Connection
    Adobe’s website do feature developer resources to develop for their adobe products or just learn to design using thei products like Photoshop, Illustrator etc.
    Adobe Developer connect is do present on iTunes Podcast Directory… You can find it here.

    Adobe TV
    Adobe TV is like adobe’s version of YouTube but all gathered to learn & get inspired about designing & learningthrough their products.

    Animation Mentor Blog
    You may know ‘Animation Mentor’ as an Online Animation Training school for learning Character Animation. But they do featured their own blog which is worth reading & bookmarking. Here is link for ‘Animation Mentor Webinar’. Here is link for ‘Animation Mentor Podcasts’

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  • Artist’s Updates’ – Apple iMac + Wacom Tablet + Mac AppStore + Free Apps like Autodesk Sketchbook Express or Copic Edition = Solution Just Work’s

    I have just discovered the free Digital Drawing & Painting Apps directly from AppStore…

    Autodesk SketchBook Express or Copic Edition is the Finding…!!!

    Just Started Using it, Got really good results while using it doing freehand drawings with wacom tablet on iMac.

    This AppStore thing is really great for discovering Apps like this under one category.

    I will post results soon….!!! & Looking forward to it…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • Open Source Applications for Artists in Simple Language Free Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup

    Following are the applications that are open source that means free tools available to an artist to built his studio without any monetary investment

    In short, “Open Source Tools & Applications for Artists for Complete Digital Studio Setup…!!!”

    Yes! You have to buy your computer hardware first. You can buy Macintosh, HP & Dell based or Assembled PC based on Windows or Any Linux System. If You already have Computer hardware setup then just go to next step to download the software…

    There is possible learning curve before using this tools but I will list some tutorials sites so that you can learn fast as possible… but there is assurance that following tools will work for you…

    A good news is all open source applications like Inkscape, GIMP supports 64bit processing so you can download relevent version of application as required…

    What I would suggest is subscribing to relevant site’s RSS feeds or News Letters will allow you to Update your self with new technologies & get to know updated versions as they arrive…

    So listing down the tools that you can download & use without any hassles…

    3D Content Creation Tool for Animation, Modeling & Dynamics
    Blender 3D
    A really good 3D Application that will allow you to create, animate & add dynamics to your art works.

    As stated on their website “model – shade – animate – render – composite – interactive 3d, Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.”

    You can subscribe to Blender Nation’s News Healines’ RSS Feed here & Blender Foundation Announcement RSS feed here

    You can visit Blender Underground’s website to download video tutorials here

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  • My List of Drawing, Sketching And Painting Books an Artist should have

    Here is My List of Drawing, Sketching & Painting Book that I found Helpful, Informative & that guided me in Learning Drawing, Sketching & Painting.

    American Artist like Andrew Loomis, George Bridgeman & their books are more or all about basic forms behind building & drawing Human figures.

    But Indian Artist like S. D. Phadnis & his books is all about telling a story through drawings. I bought his book 20 years back & I am Still using it (I even bought new edition of his same book for my reference). As stated on his website “S D Phadnis, the creator of caption-less cartoons”

    American Artists
    Andrew Loomis

    1. Fun with a Pencil
    2. Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth
    3. Creative Illustration
    4. Successful Drawing (Three Dimensional Drawings)
    5. Drawing the Head and Hands
    6. The Eye of the Painter
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