Update!

I ordered two Craig Thompson books through Flipkart! Habibi and Carnet de Voyage. I'd have liked to buy Blankets and Goodbye Chunky Rice too, but I'll save that for some other time. Spending too much makes me worried! It's so damn easy to lose track of expenses while shopping online.

Conceptart.org is down for bug fixes again. The problem isn't that it's not working now, but that this is the 3rd or 4th time its been out of use since December. I miss looking at new sketchbooks and browsing around for inspiration :( Instead of updating the conceptart sketchbook, here's this week's update.

First up, a vector piece :) For the microstock galleries.

A digi painting to celebrate the 300 followers on my facebook page! 

I had bought 3 copic markers earlier this year, but never really tested them (as I'd like all sketches that come from it to be nothing less than PERFECT.. Those markers are expensive :/ ). Drew this lil piece from memory. It's a mess.

Some half hour speed paint practice. Game of Thrones FTW!

And when I was brave enough to attempt another portrait - Adele  |  2.5 Hours

And the work in progress.

Winter is Coming

Fan art after ages!
I've gotten a break from work and some time to draw, so I'm dusting off the blog. Game of Thrones season 3 would be out by Easter. Having read the third book, "A Storm of Swords", I have no doubt that this one will be a shocker for those who don't know the story.. Can't wait to see how they've portrayed those very important turn of events! :D

Jon Snow is up first with his loyal companion, Ghost. I'm hoping to make more fan art before the show starts, but considering my resolutions so far, I'm not sure whether I'll be able to :/ Would be fun to experiment with different characters and styles, could learn a bit about caricatures as well!

Busy with work!

I'd really like to get back to learning digital painting :( But I've got deadlines coming up!
Meanwhile, some doodles from imagination.. A comic strip and two still life paintings.. I would say I'll post more soon, but the deadlines loom like dark clouds over my head. :/

Illustration Friday - Ocean

Life's like that :)

More practice in painting

Well.. Looks like it's been awhile since I've uploaded anything.. I have been working on studies and stuff, but they didn't seem like much to be uploading. So let's start with last week's progress, in the order they were painted/drawn :

Starting with myy angry and thinner (according to cricits) self portrait!

Now we come to a random scribble in photoshop, which turned out to look pretty nice..

And a photo study of a random photo off the internet, the study so that I can get a better hang of digital painting..

Anne Hathaway painting - work in progress! Followed by, a much bigger version of the painting so far.

Doodle Shmoodle

Object Study - A spoon

Here's the work-in-progress aaand..

The final image in Photoshop :) Still needs work, but I'm finally starting to understand digital painting!!

Nom nom

Hansel & Dinner!

I know. Sadist me. :P
This was for the Illustration of the Week challenge at Conceptart.org. Theme: Dark Fairy Tale.

And here's the work in progress for the watercolors. 

Shampoo Sham

An experimental comic strip. Brush & Ink.

Day, Noon & Night

More vector images for microstock sale.

Illustration Friday - Refresh

Brush and Ink

The topic for this week's Illustration Friday challenge was "Refresh". I thought of the first thing that came to mind, chucked that out, and scribbled out the second idea.
A somewhat sad attempt at returning to watercolor comic strip experiments. Meh.

Sweet tooth!

 Vanilla Wedding Cake
Adobe Illustrator

Chocolate Lake (or is it a blackforest cake?)
Adobe Illustrator again!

More practice with vector graphics

Had a bad time with the photography exam at college and thought creating some stuff would be better than sulking all day :/ Did these in Illustrator again after sketching them out on paper.

Illustration Friday - Secret

 Illustration Friday - Secret

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” - Kahlil Gibran

That was one helluva long break - 3 months? :/ And its one of those times when its hard to remember how time flew. Theory exams, final project, played some games, slept a lot and spent waay too much time browsing around I guess. Oh and I did try my hand at a job interview. And some online design contests. All of which went down the drain and led to depression. 

Now that June has arrived again (and so have the rains), the final practical exams are going on at college and I've just started teaching myself vector illustration in Adobe Illustrator. More to come!

How NOT to sit while using your Laptop

So I made another comic strip :) Click on the image to see the details!

A kid and a fox

Click on the lil' guy to see him run!

Down the Spiral Stairs

Mixed media - Chisel Tip Marker | Watercolour | Colour pencils

Bubblegum

Ink | Watercolours

Another experimental comic strip! You might have to click on the image to get a better view of all the panels.. Tried to fit in too many panels into the page :/