In AP’s Srikakulam, Locals Love This 17-year-old Boy’s Pencil Sketches

Various artists often go viral on the internet due to their exceptional art pieces. Recently, one such artist is gaining attention for his wonderful pencil sketches. Deva Ganapathi Valla from Suravaram village, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, excels in pencil art. According to reports, at the age of fourteen, Deva Ganapathi for the first time did pencil sketches. Since his first attempt, he got encouragement from his family. Now, it has been 3 years that he has been surprising everyone with his pencil artwork. Deva Ganapathi Valla’s father and grandfather were clay idol makers. He learned to make clay idols by carefully observing them from childhood. Apart from that, he used to draw diagrams in science lessons in school very well compared to his fellow students. It was the same habit that when he was fourteen years old, he surprised everyone by making a human figure for the first time. He received huge encouragement from his father.

Deva Ganapathi has completed ITI and is now studying at Polytechnic. His father was an artist of clay and cement idols. When they made idols out of clay, Deva used to help in his vacations by painting the idols made of clay.

While studying at ITI, Deva Ganapathi used to surprise his classmates by drawing pencil sketches. Deva painted portraits of freedom fighters like Gandhiji, Bhagat Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Ambedkar and won the praise of ITI college teachers. As a child, he always used to show every pencil art he had drawn to their father, Thalla Mohal Srinu, and ask him about the flaws in that art. Later, he corrected the pencil sketch accordingly, adding some new touches and learning art on his own; now he is drawing pencil art in his own style.

Few days ago, an art page known as Soum’s Arts gained admiration on the internet. This page’s video has gone viral, showing a corn seller and his son talking about something. The artist immediately takes out his notepad and pencil and starts sketching out the images of both people. He can do that in a few seconds by drawing out the figures and filling them with pencil strokes.