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title: "Visual Diary: Philosophical Charcoal Sketches on Human Nature"
description: "Discover original, hand-drawn philosophical sketches by Pratap. Each piece features raw, conceptual charcoal art paired with deep reflections on life and relationships."
canonical: https://mytribe.in/ds.pratap/original-fine-art/art-philosophy-a-visual-diary
last_updated: 2025-09-30
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# Visual Diary: Philosophical Charcoal Sketches on Human Nature

Tribe Verified · Conceptual art from Sir J.J. School alum

By [Pratap Badtya](https://mytribe.in/ds.pratap) · Ships across India; Local delivery in Mumbai and Bhubaneswar · ₹3,500 per artwork (estimate)

Part of [Original Fine Art](https://mytribe.in/ds.pratap/original-fine-art). [View full gallery](https://mytribe.in/ds.pratap/original-fine-art/gallery)

Explore life's unspoken questions through this collection of original sketches paired with reflective, philosophical notes.

## Photos and videos

- ![This sketch of people walking, with one woman turning to face the viewer, is paired with a reflection on attraction. The text reads: "That which liberates you excessively in victory, and ruins you more than your right in defeat, is called attraction."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/0514c1af-1651-47f1-a6e9-9b9ae0488d72)
- ![A sketch of a woman holding an umbrella, accompanied by a thought on friendship. The Hindi text says: "The feeling of a best friend comes from where you feel free even from conversation."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/0d3951c0-a41c-4bec-915d-f506f2183739)
- ![Two women sit on a step in this sketch, paired with a philosophical note. The text states: "To understand attachment and love, betrayal is very necessary."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/0d4ab3ec-85b2-4bd8-b4b2-345101186412)
- ![A sketch of a street vendor scene with a poignant observation on human nature. The text translates to: "If you are sad in someone's happiness and happy in someone's sorrow, then you are living in hell."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/1010fb9f-0f20-4ce5-bfb5-39926477e79d)
- ![This drawing depicts a scene in what appears to be a hospital room, capturing a moment of vulnerability. The accompanying text reflects on life experience: "I became so good, I didn't even realize. Is it amazing or am I being used?"](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/1c0a48a4-20d5-4724-b7cf-83e11475b1c3)
- ![A portrait sketch of a woman is paired with a thought on wisdom. The text says: "If experience is of understanding, it is shown. Speaking changes the picture of character."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/1f9deb55-3070-4882-9a88-77b237332a96)
- ![This sketch of a group of people is accompanied by a reflection on living life on one's own terms. The text advises: "If you want to live life according to your choice, then you are moving away from a beautiful life."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/2f7d749d-b22a-4d87-b4ce-d1c05bc5fc35)
- ![A sketch of a man standing confidently, paired with a motivational thought. The text reads: "Winning and losing will both be in your hands, when you ask yourself how you are more than you ask others."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/455e5ab6-580e-4cce-b1b2-3f7234f85d71)
- ![A sketch of a man in a moment of distress or deep thought, reflecting on life. The text says: "The world desires to declare me good, and I have very little desire to die."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/4af48a11-8eaf-4597-b277-382c9f085469)
- ![A solitary figure sits by the water in this sketch, paired with a reflection on responsibility. The text translates to: "When the tears and voice stop while crying, then understand that you have become capable of bearing the burden of responsibility."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/5a8d775c-edb6-4ae1-b270-452851f0db14)
- ![A composite sketch with portraits and a heartfelt poem about a best friend. The text is a loving tribute, describing a friend as the most special part of an ordinary life.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/67a818c9-bb5f-49d7-8e6d-f4be15267550)
- ![A sketch of a young woman, paired with a thought on the nature of work and knowledge. The text says: "To do work, one needs desire, not knowledge, and to earn money, one needs knowledge, not a job."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/68db519c-e57c-4909-8d62-ce3ac8ee14e4)
- ![A surreal sketch combining a female form with a tree, exploring the pain of love. The text states: "The more you love, the more you will be despised, whether for a person or a nation."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/70733710-6a73-48bd-83d6-971b9c8a49ba)
- ![A sketch of a woman from behind, with a reflection on the nature of love. The text reads: "Love is that imaginary experience, whose beginning has no reason and whose end has no question."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/714f0031-b9ec-47f1-8e5e-ee4b5a1fe566)
- ![This sketch of a woman is overlaid with a faint image of the goddess Durga. The text reflects on the irony of a son who chants "Jai Mata Di" but has left his own mother in an old age home.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/78479940-2200-4a72-b733-b7163af5d9a1)
- ![A satirical sketch of a politician with an elongated, spring-like neck. The text is a cynical take on politics: "He gives a small surprise by taking a lot of money out of his pocket, the one we vote for."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/7ac968a1-029f-40fa-89f8-b75121b9f68e)
- ![A sketch of two women waiting, with a thought on career. The text says: "An obstacle comes in a career when faith in the work diminishes."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/7ca8e449-a568-427d-975b-4bbbd68f4a75)
- ![A drawing of three skulls, accompanied by a dark reflection on relationships. The text states: "A relationship can embrace you and it can also strangle you."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/7f069ab5-9a01-4cdd-9962-4f6fe2022cac)
- ![A sketch of a woman sitting alone in a train compartment. The text offers a perspective on love and respect: "The wound has to be respected, when attachment is not even applied, understand that it is love."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/86ea5c42-2de7-4d9f-b072-d52ecc553738)
- ![A drawing of a woman's face with butterflies and tears. The text poignantly says: "You had asked the way to come near, now you are telling the way to go far."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/8c99b557-bf29-40ff-9109-5ab20fba351b)
- ![A surreal drawing of a skeleton with a tree growing from its ribcage. The text reflects: "Both body and mind can never think well for others."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/8d2969b4-b4df-4bf6-9fe5-4d710558d61f)
- ![A sketch contrasting a traditionally dressed woman with a handbag. The text observes: "It's fun to see yourself in the mirror when the girl is in a gathering of adornment and the boy is in a gathering of employment."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/8ee582d4-34a5-49ad-bc4e-e421e94fe194)
- ![A sketch of a smiling village woman holding a pot. The text offers a path to progress: "Don't expect to laugh so much in life that you have to cry, progress will be found when you feel the need to keep yourself happy, not others."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/92a1551e-5fb7-4a06-ade0-7ce3ec113f58)
- ![A sketch of a girl standing alone. The text reflects on crying: "Both cry, the only difference is that a boy does not cry in a crowd and a girl does not cry alone."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/933ad8e3-88f7-4b98-88ac-0d1ef6ee8535)
- ![A sketch of an old man, paired with a cynical thought. The text says: "A promise made before love, election, and marriage is such a lie that it forces you to believe it is true."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/a0cbab48-f0ce-41da-8729-702d4416eb89)
- ![A sketch of a group of people from behind, with a warning about the future. The text translates to: "If you feel sleepy at night and in the morning you are pulled towards the bed, then understand that your future is heading towards ruin."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/a106f29a-24cb-4681-92f9-6622e1ce6122)
- ![A sketch of a crowd, with a reflection on being needed. The text asks: "How beautiful is it to be necessary for someone, what will they know? Only those who consider the necessary beautiful will know."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/a781e2be-6604-4ba6-a6a6-4b2e6f389f55)
- ![A sketch of a bustling market scene. The text says: "You can think about what to do in life at home, but not what not to do."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/ac647e09-da96-42d5-9d15-24d5292ccf68)
- ![A sketch of a woman, paired with a definition of love. The text reads: "That for which the whole world is hungry and in opposition to, we call it love."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/ac78656a-c5f6-4e32-840d-aa65b37fd0ee)
- ![A sketch of a woman holding a cricket bat. The text offers a thought on effort: "Don't think that you will celebrate happiness when you get success, if the effort is sincere, you can find joy every day."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/b3a5f38f-a000-402a-b1b9-0f24d460e7ae)
- ![A sketch of a busy market. The text is an observation about excuses: "He who does not work on time says 'I did not get time on time'."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/b7bec81f-97fb-465b-9bc7-97645a243462)
- ![A sketch of a woman standing alone. The text reflects on friendship: "If the experience of every relationship is placed in a picture of emotion, then the friend will be in the support and the rest in the stimulus."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/c06bc4b0-8ef8-49de-94d7-af69dce35eba)
- ![A sketch depicting two figures, with a reflection on love and betrayal. The text says: "Love and betrayal are such an imaginary picture, which is not found but only gives experience."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/d17fb09f-a5d6-47ea-a99d-25b9468d409a)
- ![A boy sits alone by the water in this sketch. The text contrasts the lives of the rich and poor: "A rich man's son does not leave his childhood in his youth, and a poor man's son has to grow up in his childhood."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/d2e3819f-6b6e-4f06-ac91-d703845809a0)
- ![A sketch of a man working at a food stall. The text is a sharp commentary on expectations: "You want a son-in-law who earns as much money as it took you 60 years to earn."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/d3e00af2-0efb-49e4-a4a4-6dc37855fad3)
- ![A sketch of three female figures. The text says: "Girls understand boys who are true at heart and care more."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/d5200283-c2d0-47a9-971d-cdcf5cab16de)
- ![A sketch of a village scene with huts. The text reflects on the city versus the village: "One has to go to the city to live, and one has to come to the village to live in peace."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/e0676246-64f8-4fdb-a38a-0a07c754bb89)
- ![A sketch of a person sitting. The text says: "Thank you and sorry are the only words that help in joining a relationship more than breaking it."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/e0bd2b3f-355f-48ba-b31a-ae90fbf4e7a0)
- ![Two friends walk hand in hand in this sketch. The text celebrates friendship: "In heaven, perhaps no relationship can last, but friendship is a relationship where one can have fun even in hell."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/e3c8e4b4-432f-48e6-8306-4c377771aaf3)
- ![A sketch contrasting two female figures. The text states: "A poor person's values and a rich person's love cannot be bought from others."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/f3cdecb4-6c3b-4b60-93cf-9ad0c0f538c0)
- ![A sketch of two women talking. The text offers a warning: "He who pushes you down while in your company is an enemy in the name of a friend."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/f846d6a7-4949-43d6-8aa1-47c2bde21639)
- ![A sketch of a couple resting together. The text comments on modern relationships: "Not all girls think that for love you need to be handsome and for marriage you need income."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/fa5d8150-a49e-4749-9f1d-90b41b6accdc)
- ![A surreal sketch of a running elephant with birds flying above. The text says: "There is peace in both, either fulfill your wish or complete your work."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/ff720b0a-4d03-4019-8613-7b6a4cb85b45)
- [Video: A sketch of a group of people, with a reflection on happiness. The text says: "Pain, pride, trouble, profession, whatever the reason, one should always be in search of happiness."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/20a768e2-fb75-49fd-97b4-009bfb1b65a1)
- [Video: A sketch of a hand holding a bag, with a thought on money. The text reads: "Money is not everything. To say this in front of thousands of people, one has to earn thousands of crores."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/305d55b9-7e83-45fe-946f-24fb8c05424c)
- [Video: A sketch of two people sleeping on a train berth. The text comments on the struggles of the common man in our country.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/3dd12a51-9d1b-4b4e-90f2-0cada785c918)
- [Video: A sketch of a woman with a backpack. The text reflects on self-worth: "That is also a greed, not to change yourself even after knowing that no one loves you."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/4420c2a0-81ca-4898-9311-133423809db4)
- ![A sketch of people walking away. The text says: "No one's compulsion increases, distances increase in the name of compulsion."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/5211c3d1-168a-4ee0-b0b3-7b1f56b7a501)
- [Video: A surreal sketch with a commentary on the difference between need and desire.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/57b40be4-3e55-41f1-a888-d476d6bd6ff1)
- [Video: A sketch of a group of people, with a question for self-reflection. The text asks: "Pay attention to what you are thinking in your solitude, you will find out whether you are becoming a fool or successful."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/728dddf0-0f6f-4bd9-a1ae-1ef0468b8f66)
- ![A sketch of two friends under an umbrella. The text says: "In the gathering of relationships, friendship is an exception to the rule. Everything else is bound by a rule."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/732e966b-9616-4a7b-bdd4-482732eec666)
- [Video: A sketch of a group of people, with a commentary on governance and public accountability.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/757ccce0-e800-4974-80e1-657f97b4b33f)
- [Video: A sketch of a person reading while lying down. The text says: "There is no sleep in my eyes, nor any hope of waking up. I may spend the whole night looking at my sleeping fate."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/88c60035-f529-41d6-87bf-8160d4711808)
- [Video: A sketch of a woman with a backpack. The text reflects on the journey of life and the small steps of progress.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/90e0a7f6-925f-4cfa-9ccf-891b5db9051a)
- [Video: A graphic, abstract representation of a human silhouette filled with a maze-like pattern. The text speaks about the work we do diligently for which we feel no shame in speaking or hearing about.](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/a60a9339-7dc3-4abb-b663-fc146168e3d1)
- [Video: A surreal sketch of a figure hanging from a tree's roots. The text advises: "If you want to live to eat, keep an account of money. And if you want to eat to live, keep an account of time."](https://assets.mytribe.in/insecure/raw:1/plain/s3://mytribe-assets-production/f7ae91f6-4ceb-4c7e-9410-35abc9c76298)

## About Art & Philosophy: A Visual Diary

These pieces are original, hand-drawn A3 or A4 works on 130-150 GSM acid-free cartridge paper, finished with a professional fixative spray to prevent charcoal smudging. Each artwork is hand-signed and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. When I create these, I am combining a live observation with a specific reflection, essentially turning every drawing into a tangible page from a visual diary.

These drawings serve as a bridge between immediate observation and deeper contemplation. When I sit to sketch a moment—whether it is a passerby in a market, a quiet conversation in a hospital, or a solitary figure by the water—I am not just capturing a visual likeness. I am documenting the subconscious struggle that defines our existence.

My process is rooted in the rigorous discipline of my formal training at the Sir J.J. School of Art, yet the soul of these works is entirely observational. Because I use high-grade charcoal, graphite, and Indian ink, the work is meant to be a permanent, preserved memory rather than a fleeting sketch.

If you are considering one of these pieces for your space, keep in mind:

* **Authenticity:** Every drawing is dated, signed, and comes with documentation.
* **Presentation:** Works are shipped unframed to ensure they reach you in perfect condition, secured between rigid board sheets.
* **Philosophical Value:** These sketches are paired with reflections on themes like attraction, responsibility, and the nature of love, making them ideal for collectors who value art that sparks conversation.

Whether you are drawn to the stoic portraits or the observational street scenes, these works are designed to be lived with. If a specific reflection resonates with your own journey, or if you would like to discuss a custom visual diary commission that captures a moment meaningful to you, use the contact buttons below.

## About Pratap Badtya

I am Pratap. My art is a direct output of my time at the Sir J.J. School of Art and the memories of my tribal village. I draw to understand why we struggle and how we move through our days, turning those quiet, fleeting thoughts into ink on paper.

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