Brand new day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photoshop Quickie. 45mins

Pure Randomness

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

Recent works of 2009

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

VROOM!

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

Gud Morning

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

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

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

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!)