After the 1000 land mark, CD has moved to Face book. You can find us here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/284944101701761/

Please Chumma draw!

18 April, 2013

India gate


525_World Heritage Day


Today's topic is World Heritage Day. 

18th April is celebrated around the globe every year, which offers an opportunity to raise the public's awareness about the diversity of cultural heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it. 

 Happy Drawing! :)

17 April, 2013

Mr. Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin-Everyone's favourite Comedian!


quick sketch of CC


' Charcoal '

Chaplin - by Archit 

524_Charlie Chaplin


Today's topic is Charlie Chaplin. 
 

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
“We think too much and feel too little.” 
“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”  
“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.” 
“What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.” 


 Happy Drawing! :)

16 April, 2013

stop


STOP..

lets stop all types of pollution around us.....!!

Stop Corruption!


523_Stop


Today's topic is Stop. 
 

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
~ Robert H. Schuller 

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
~ Ayn Rand 

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."
~ Mason Cooley 


 Happy Drawing! :)

15 April, 2013

A start is not a start without you :)

jump start ur day v fresh fruiits



My son made a start today with chumma draw...!!

The Start line....

Grounded before take off?

Please also see my posting for Ambedkar Jayanthi here"
http://chummadraw.blogspot.in/2013_04_14_archive.html

522_Start

Today's topic is Start.
 

Start something new!

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
~ Joel Osteen

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
~ Dolly Parton


 Happy Drawing! :)


14 April, 2013

Dr. Ambedkar

A tribute thru Caricature to Dr B R Ambedkar


521_Ambedkar Jayanti

Today's topic is Ambedkar Jayanti.
Life should be great rather than long.
~ B. R. Ambedkar


A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
~ B. R. Ambedkar


Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
~ B. R. Ambedkar


Happy Drawing! :)


13 April, 2013

Clothes we wear


Just a quick sketch.

Shopping for some new clothes !

Happiness from buying new clothes ... :P

in my neighborhood

Alteration pl!


520_Clothes

Today's topic is Clothes.  

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Happy Drawing :)

12 April, 2013

Fresh for the summer






Cucumber and mint leaves for a fresh feel on a hot hot day.

The Risk?


fresh water


519_Fresh

Today's topic is Fresh.  

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
~ Lillie Langtry

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~Lord Byron

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
~ Franz Kafka

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
~ Jeanette Winterson

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
~ Jeff Bridges
Happy Drawing :)

11 April, 2013

happy ugadi


Let there be Vijaya for you in this Vijaya Nama Samvatsara


518_Ugadi

Today's topic is Ugadi.   

The eating of a specific mixture of six tastes (à°·à°¡్à°°ుà°šుà°²ు), called Ugadi Pachhadi (ఉగాà°¦ి పచ్à°šà°¡ి) in Telugu and Bevu-Bella (ಬೇವು-ಬೆಲ್ಲ) in Kannada, symbolizes the fact that life is a mixture of different experiences (sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise), which should be accepted together and with equanimity through the New Year.

The special mixture consists of:

For more, see HERE.

Happy Drawing :)

09 April, 2013

The LSD connection


516_Hippie

Today's topic is Hippie.   

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
~ Alanis Morissette

I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.
~ Sherman Hemsley

There is a secret hippie within me.
~ Phillip Lim

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
~ Jared Leto 


Happy Drawing :)

08 April, 2013

Indian gypsy


A Gypsy


515_Gypsy

Today's topic is Gypsy. 

Today is International Gypsy Day. For more, see HERE. Apparently, the gypsies originated in India, and started moving out and spreading across the world around 1500 years ago.


It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
~ Franz Liszt

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
~ Franz Liszt

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.
~ Reba McEntire

I'm a wandering gypsy.
~ Lady Gaga

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
~ Carla Gugino
 


Happy Drawing :)

07 April, 2013

LIve Life!


514_Live

Today's topic is Live.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
~ Bob Marley

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
~ Max Muller

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
~ A. A. Milne

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
~ James Dean

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Samuel Love


Happy Drawing :)

06 April, 2013

Let's jive


Word Play-Jive


513_Jive


Today's topic is Jive.

"The feet may learn the steps, but only the spirit can dance"

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
~ Angela Monet 

Wiki link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_(dance)

Happy Drawing :)

05 April, 2013

dive in Boys


Dive to Die?


512_Dive

Today's topic is Dive.

The self is like a pearl. To find it you must dive deep down into silence, deeper and ever deeper until it is reached.
~ Ramana Maharshi

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
~ Carly Fiorina

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
~ Robert Morgan

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
~ John Dryden

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
~ Tori Amos
 


Happy Drawing :)

04 April, 2013

water pool


Fun time at the Pool!



511_Pool

Today's topic is Pool.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
~ Christopher Reeve

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
~ Dennis Rodman
 

Happy Drawing :)

03 April, 2013

The changed tools!


510_Tool

Today's topic is Tool.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
~ Bill Gates

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
~ Robert Kennedy

I view art as an inspirational tool.
~ Thomas Kincade

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
~ Howard Gardner

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~ Joseph Addison

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
~ Andre Kertesz

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
~ Ayn Rand

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
~ George Carlin
 


Happy Drawing :)

02 April, 2013

our mom says we r COOL


Mr.Cool!


509_Cool

Today's topic is Cool.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
~ Walt Whitman

I don't mind not being cool.
~ Chris Martin


It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
~ Bill Watterson

Rather be dead than cool.
~ Kurt Cobain

He who keeps his cool best wins.
~ Norman Cousins
 


Happy Drawing :)

01 April, 2013

Only once in 5 years?


Happy Fool's Day

Fool se, fool ne,
Foolon ki foolwari me
Fool ke sath wish kiya
'You are the most beautifool,
Colorfool & wonderfool
Amongst all the fools.
Happy April Fool's Day

508_Fool

Today's topic is Fool.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~ Sholom Aleichem

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~ Bruce Lee

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
~ William Shakespeare
 


Happy Drawing :)

31 March, 2013

507_Easter




Easter Greetings!


Happy Easter to all Cdrawers


507_Easter

Today's topic is Easter.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
~ Bede Griffiths

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
~ Deepak Chopra

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
~ Dwight L. Moody
 


Happy Drawing :)

30 March, 2013

ghar aaja pardesi tera des bulaye rey

http://youtu.be/jZIDKkh5v64 enjoy dis song from Romantic movie DDLJ

A PM in Waiting!


506_Waiting

Today's topic is Waiting.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~ J. B. Priestley

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~ Elizabeth Taylor

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~ Fran Lebowitz

All good things come to those who wait.
~ Anonymous


Happy Drawing :)

29 March, 2013

Remembering Good Friday


Not the same mistake again!


505_Forgiveness

Today's topic is Forgiveness.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
~ Lewis B. Smedes

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
~ Jesus Christ
 


Happy Drawing :)