Thoughtstrokes

Brand new day

2011-03-24T12:23:00.003+05:30

Strange that a couple of links takes me to my own blog. The initial reactions of feel-good looking at all my post quickly turned to a bit of awkwardness and finally depression that I haven't been able to update as regularly as I would have liked to.
The past year has been one of the strangest years I have had. Cannot really define it into black or white. Guess every once in a while, the strong feeling of everything you planned up not shaping up hits you like nothing else will ever. Not even watching a Yash Raj movie.
But the one thing that somehow slipped through the devastating fingers of 2010 has to be the small casual game that me and a couple of guys were working on - So not all has been to vain, there shall be some gain.
I am definitely waking up to a brand new day this year. Hopefully I update this space more often.

Quick Characters

2010-03-17T23:46:00.004+05:30

Yeah - Tried to get some big dudes in today. Spent around - 20 min on each... Its fun to do these, Specially the basketball dude, He kinda reminded me of KungFu Panda! - If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it.

Vehicle designs

2010-03-16T05:19:00.006+05:30

I guess, watching too many Sci-fi movies off-late has inspired me to try out some designs of my own. Yeah It's still got elements already seen, But as someone said, when you totally deviate yourself and start something new, you tend to put in a lot of cliches, stuffs that u made a note of, seeing things around you. That sort of fades away, when you keep iterating and trying out more designs, that's when originality kicks in :) - That said, will try some more whenever free.

Further Monstrosities! - #002

2010-03-14T14:24:00.003+05:30

So, disappointed with my first monster, heres another, #002. Beware of the Yinyansaur, the vicious dual headed beast. Being both the male and female, the Yintansaur is capable of self - impregnation and lay eggs. You know what that means? - If You see one, kill it, It multiplies, even before u can say - Run!

This is Monstrocity

2010-03-14T02:26:00.004+05:30

So, I thought,to further humiliate myself before you guys, to post some doodles of creatures/monsters/politicians etc. Will keep them quick and dirty!.
And without further ado, heres Monster #001 (Oh yeah, hoping fer 100 of them sweeties)
PS, around 2hrs

Random Saturday Sketch

2010-03-07T02:01:00.004+05:30

So Trying out some new brushes and quick strokes. And personally, thats how I felt on the day of my 'Poonal' -'Thread Ceremony, A tradition common in the tamil brahamin culture.

The Photoshopped Model

2010-03-03T14:03:00.002+05:30

Always wondered what the glossy magazine pass off as beauty. While they do reason that people do Want to look at 'perfect' people, it does push the natural out of the window.
Done in PS,2hrs

Daily Sketches - Quickies

2010-01-13T19:23:00.003+05:30

Heres a bunch of Quickies done for DSF over the last week. Tried a lot of new brushes and approaches - Was great fun. Average time were around - 35-40mins

The Winter Affair

The Hack

Mr. Roboto

The Revolutionary

It's all in the details

The B^$@# is back

Apocalypse

Day and Night

Daily Sketches

2009-12-30T17:32:00.007+05:30

Most of these were for Daily Sketch forumn - at CGsociety.. Lately have been doing these quick captures. Trying to set in the moods/palette as quickly and effectively as possible..Should be doing more of these :)

The Junkyard King - 45 mins

The Insider - 30 mins

Beyond the clouds - 55 mins

Snowstorm - 30 mins

Peace - Quickie

2009-12-29T14:26:00.002+05:30

Started this as an exercise of textured fabric..And liked the result too. The guy could have been better tho.

Done in Photoshop , around 45 mins. Peace.

Ode to Games

2009-12-18T05:03:00.004+05:30

Probably the last personal work for this year. Happy to have learnt a lot of stuff this year and looking forward to a brand new shiny chapter.

This one is inspired by looking at the way the technology has improved over the years, helping artist by giving them a whole lot more freedom, specially in Gaming. Being a gamer/game artist, I have seen the technical challenges lessened and creative implementation boosted. Cheers to technology. HighRes Image here

Happy new year guys!

Break from Routine

2009-12-12T01:30:00.003+05:30

After a whole day with dark grungy themes, had to end the day with this quickie. Hope you like it :).. It certainly eased my nerves for the weekend

Most of the brushes on this one comes from - www.qbrushes.net

Besh Besh Natarajan

2009-12-10T15:20:00.003+05:30

Kind of reminds me of my Grandpop :) At 90+ that man is insanely active.. Must be all the Caffine

Photoshop Quickie. 45mins

Pure Randomness

2009-12-08T19:16:00.003+05:30

Been Doing some random Quickes off late, between other works :)

Recent works of 2009

2009-12-01T23:43:00.005+05:30

Been a long time Since I posted something here.. Well heres a couple I did this year :)

VROOM!

2008-12-22T20:30:00.003+05:30

Was painting this while listening to Steppenwolf's 'Born to be Wild'
2 hours till now.. Lets see where it takes me!

Gud Morning

2008-11-22T22:39:00.003+05:30

Got myself a couple of hours the other day while working the night at office. Started as a sketch and then as I looked out the window and saw the early sun decided to paint this.
Quickie, done in 2-2.5 hours. Heres the WIP.

Caution Cramps Ahead

2008-10-09T20:29:00.005+05:30

Hello everyone, I know, its been a long time since I posted something here. Work is keeping me tied up and I really cudnt get myself to do something personally. And then, I got a chance with my old Buddies to join them for a trip to Coorg. Aaah! Bless them for it. Got to do a bunch of stuff life rappeling, nite rides, boating,swimming and partying too. Osome osome time, I recommend you all go there.

The only complain I had was the ride, a Swaraj Mazda 18 seater with absolutely no leg room. I am generally not a guy who complains, but it was my back which really took the beating.

And I felt like this.

Its not the best of stuff, I know...but I really had to post something and motivate myself ...Btw, Its a pencil work later worked on Gimp, which I am not really handy with..Will deff make a pass through PS too, if I am nearby.

You Don Wanna Know

2008-07-18T22:46:00.004+05:30

Hey everyone,
Been muchin way too much than what i can chew, hence the lack of updates.
But still managed to do a quicke today.. Here's it

What do u guys Think?
This was done, inspired by a photograph taken by Sabina Dimitriu

And heres the Wip breakdown

Area

2008-05-17T23:15:00.007+05:30

Hey guys,
As told previously I was working on the graphic novel and was dabbling in diff styles.. This is close to what I like..
lemme know what u think..and yeah.more to follow :)

and the first page..(Not quite there yet!)

Viva las FXlabs!

2008-05-15T21:10:00.004+05:30

Two weeks back I put down my papers at my company Fxlabs, Where I was working for almost two years.

The company was generous enough to relieve me soon as against the a months notice, (the most weirdest time to
work!). Anyways I took the time to do what I wanted to do from a long time ... RoadTrip!...yeah..
I took my friends bike and visited my friends at Bangalore (600kms frm Hyd). That was refreshing change and had loads to think and ponder
the entire ride.

Now that I am back, I need to seek my options now. Probably now is the best time for my long time dream -
A Graphic Novel.
yep.. Lets see if I can do what I think I can do!

Wish me Luck!

p.s. Gonna miss my gang at Fxlabs-Rock on guys!

Updates

2008-04-06T11:16:00.019+05:30

realised that putting in each and every WIP step will increase my scroll in blog..

So after a tea, my extremely productive grey matter has suggested me to video showing my steps... and the latest stage will be posted as a separate image...smart :)

Latest Stage - as of 10th april 2008
Need to work on hands, the left foot mite need work too..and what not!
At this stage, I can pretty well see where this is going...

And my WIP (pls wait whie it downloads)

Beauty and the balls

2008-04-03T00:01:00.008+05:30

Another girl whose got the balls!..I know its much too cliche but cudn't resist having a piece of my own.
So heres a doodle from my work..

I did find a lot of problems with the posture and costume. So a little bit of photo reference and costume redesign got me to here..

Story and progress to follow!

POP, thermacol and a wedding!

2008-02-28T23:06:00.009+05:30

Hey guys,
Lately took off from my work and visited my parents.. after a long time :)
And in between managed to attend my friends wedding too.. (I still can't believe, Anil got married!)

Anyways, I got a good opportunity to work on a backdrop model for his reception. The idea and concept were of my friend Lokesh and me and a group of friends(GK, Jan, and Sowgy) decided to help him out for the last minute dash.

Have a look..

And the final result.. And the bright couple too!

My sincere wishes for the couple...

Knight Hopper

2008-01-26T11:51:00.000+05:30

Hey Everyone..
For all those who are wondering, what was cooking from my end....Well heres it!
pls click on image to download

It was a nostalgic spark of idea from my dear friend Altaf (CrazieCoder), who had played the hardcopy(?!) version of this game during his college days. After a discussion with him I decided to help him with all the artwork required for this game.
It was a refreshing change for me from all the 3d I do !

About the game: Jus download and play!

And before I forget, Altaf used Torque Game Builder for all the coding... (fellow Artist, pls don try this at home!)

Started something new-

2007-12-13T23:43:00.000+05:30

Heres something which keeps pulling me back home everyday..
Now that I posted the Wip, I better get it done... lazy Sandy..

The story, Wips and Final (*ahem*) soon to follow..

Late nite Tea - (damn Dheeraj!)

2007-12-13T23:32:00.000+05:30

10 min character studies

Couple more hours...

2007-11-25T18:13:00.001+05:30

I had a chat with Naresh the other day, wen he showed me this
ultra realistic painting done from a picture. It was really gr8, and
inspired me to do so too. Now I never really do that, nevertheless
I had joy in doing so.

Ok heres it...

Now Don ask me..!

and the WIPs as promised...

Practice

2007-11-25T01:49:00.000+05:30

Tried something new today..
Will post the WIPs and close ups once I finish this (..yeah rite!)

Result

Reference

Big Oshkosh

2007-11-17T09:31:00.000+05:30

Modelled for normal map test..

Office doodles...

2007-11-17T09:18:00.000+05:30

Indian streets..

Another Quickie

2007-11-17T09:13:00.000+05:30

Topic : Red Bike

YIPPPPEEEE

2007-10-26T09:07:00.000+05:30

I finally got myself a wacom intous3 tablet.. for my bday..(!)

goig crazy with that....so no updates frm me... well heres a sketck i did
for a daily sketck forum . Topic: redisgn Jason Vorhees..

Waitin fer a weekend to play around...

update

2007-10-10T01:47:00.001+05:30

Progressing around...Worked a bit more on the face.....
At this time...my concern is getting a good edge loop...

Office Doodles.....

2007-10-10T01:43:00.001+05:30

A new day, a new work...

2007-10-05T00:30:00.000+05:30

Well thats the thing about these personal doodles. you always
hit the saturation point once you realized that what you started the work with...

ok..that was a lame excuse for all the unfinished work!....but then...

Fooling Around

2007-09-24T02:10:00.000+05:30

Slow and easy....
Work is pretty hectic hense the slower updates

And the present status of that zbrush head..

2007-09-21T20:24:00.000+05:30

Worked on that Zbrush head the other night.

This is what I yam here for.....

2007-09-21T20:09:00.001+05:30

A character I have been painting for sometime now.
I still need to correct those anatomical issues like the torso and stuff.
Would love to know your suggestions.!

Some environments I have doodled in my free time

Vehicle based on Subaru Wrc model.
One of those piece in my hard disk screaming
to see the light of the day!

Again Flavor of the month! Zbrush model.

Jus getting started.....

2007-09-17T23:12:00.000+05:30

Hey everybody.
Sincere thanks for stopping by.....

still learning the BLOG way.... as I sip my tea (I DID THAT!) and a grin in my face.....

and yeah...thanks to naresh for inspirin........his blog (check it out)