4 Months or Eternity ?

I wasn't having access to PC for quite a while now. 

I finally did get a Macbook Pro. It's quite a beast and I'm still getting used to it. I need to catch up to my Routine.

Meanwhile, first 4 months at NID has been a heck of an Experience.

I've created a new blog to store all my course work. Which means, I'll only use this blog for my hobbies and the usual bullshitting.


Sketchwise, I'm falling behind. My current idea is to start catching up on #Inktober, which means I'll have to make 2 sketches per day.

Anyways, here's a comic that I made during the Buddy Week at NID, which was a gift to one of the Seniors here. Also made a tiny bow and arrow, which is one of my first DIYs.

Hoping to share 10 Sketches for Inktober by next Sunday.

A Lot to Digest

It's been a really tough & hectic week...
I almost feel like I'm writing my final exams.... Ah, the good ol' college days...

But, daily sketching is really helping to alleviate my frustration... 

I realize I've been sketching a lot digitally, lately..
But, I've also been slogging to finish off the comic abt the puppy...

I've completed around 65%,so far... 
As usual, I hope to finish by "next" week xD

Anyways, here's a page from the comic:

I need to think of a Title, too...

Also, here's one of my attempts at an Illustrator design...

I almost forgot to share a few sketches that I did, at work:

 

Until, Next week xD

Comic Obsession

Yeah, I have reverted to my age-old comic obsessed self...

Have been reading plenty of em' lately.

Batman: Court/ City of Owls, Saga, Locke n Key, Infinity Gauntlet, Civil War and a lot more..

Planning to get an iPad Air 2 to read more stuff..

A Genuine Excuse

Ok, here I go...  

Had to take a break due to some health problems and some travelling..

Man-o-man... I really am not ready to be a traveler.... 

I've learnt that travelling can really f#&k you up... especially if you're as static as I am...

I can only remember a few sketches that I did since the last time that I posted...  Maybe this is coz I haven't been very productive lately...

Have been focusing more on improving my Inkscape skillset. 

These are a set of water-bubbles rendered on Inkscape and I really enjoyed doing 'em.

I've officially abandoned #Inktober... I'm thinking of making a new book and starting #Sketchember... xD   ok, I agree it sounds lame..

Anyways, I've had a couple of sketch-ideas related to one's feelings on falling sick..  
Guess where I got the ideas from... :/

Watched AntMan and I must say: This movie kicks ass !!

I'm completely hyped for 2016 and the wide range of comic book adaptions to live-action movies..

I'm also reading SAGA... which is another kickass comic that I've ever come across.. 
"The Stalk" is my fav character from this...

Anyways, back to my mission statement - "Gotta be more active".

December has to got be me focusing on Inkscape, more sketches and Bootstrap.. ;D

The Ugliest set of Comics

Are you ready for poorly drawn, dirty, ugly and crappy comic-strips...

Starting off with a subtle one.
Weather changes pretty much every second, the city where I currently live in.

Time for the dirty and ugly ones:
My Friend told me about this hilarious-venture called PeePoo.  It's essentially a bag where one pee/poos in and it turns into a fertilizer. Sort of an eco-friendly way to crap.
We drew some comics, about this, for the lols:

Some poorly drawn ones:
There's this friend and colleague who ditches office-parties, more than I do.
So drew some comics based on these inside-jokes.

A Big Comic

"The Rains are here ....

I'm in constant Fear... 

Internet's in Peril..

I've become the Devil !"

Yeah , the Rains are affecting my Net. I was offline for 2 days and could not "read".
I'm sure I would, had there been no problems. Planning on changing it, this week.

Drew a bunch of comic-strips, this week, based on some Ideas that I had (here):

Did learn some stuff on: Clouds, Anatomy, Color-theory & solved CEED2k5. 

So, it's a big improvement. Let me see how it goes, this week.  

Btw, Favorites, this week:

Music: Birdy - Wings.

Movie: It Follows

Tv-Show: Flash

Hero [DoTA]: Invoker

The Elevator-Journey

I had to travel this week and an Elevator nearly cost me a lot of time..

Drew a comic abt this:

Feeling really under the weather due to this damm' Cold.. 

Will focus more on Design related questions and solutions starting this week...

2 Weeks Apart...

It's true what they say...  Sooner or later, all Resolutions fade away.. Truly passionate ones, are the only things that stay...

Haven't written anything in this blog, but frankly, have not given up on drawing and painting, yet..

Drew a couple of stuff these last few weeks:

Last to last week:
1. The Comic:

Came across a TEDx video about rebooting your life. One of the ideas was to draw yourself doing the stuff that you love doing. Well, in my case, it was drawing myself drawing.

2. War Cat:

Grabbed a pencil and just sketched this out.

3. A Lame-quote:

I don't know what this is. (lol) Just tried out something.

Last Week:
1. Dexter saying thank-you:

My first commission. Though, I haven't heard back from the guy, after I drew it for him.

2. A Stapler sketch:

Never have I drawn any objects and shaded something kinda "formally" using pencils. Decided to give it a go. Hopefully, this helps for the design preparations.

This week:

1. Drew a weekly-art full of dogs: 

GR, GS, RW, PB & SH seem to be my favs.

For the future, have some lame ideas, have been kinda obsessed with dogs lately:

1. A device that scares dogs.
    - Big sound , stick, water, Badminton Racket ?

2. Dogs yelling at other dogs to mark their territory.
    - What do they say to each other? Maybe, a funny comic.














Design-Ideas for apps:
1. Ajja: To cut down all Wifi, whatsapp, games, and turn a cellphone to a basic phone.
2. Advanced Helper App: An app that integrates into all devices. Kinda like Jarvis.

Learning a lot of Perspectives and Shadows. Hoping to complete viewing and practicing all of the Video-tutorials, that I downloaded .

A trip & some new ideas

Couldn't draw, the last couple of days. My excuses: Had been travelling, this weekend & it was my Mom's Bday, last week, for which I made a card. (awh!)

#1: An idea for a comic, describing a hypothetical app called "Ajja" (aka Grandpa).

This app has an "On/ Off" switch that can used to switch off any "Messaging" service. (Whatsapp, IM, Facebook. basic texts and any other "app" that you can use to chat).

As I'm writing this, I realize that this is, kinda like, the plot for "Watchdogs".

But, Noo..  Honestly, this isn't where I stole the Idea from.  My colleague is addicted to Whatsapp and he doesn't listen to a thing that I say, the first time..  I even drew a comic abt this...

Idea for the single-page comic: 

• A large panel showing the UI of the application in the center.
• Surrounded by panels showing the protagonist, switching off stuff and having a lot of fun.
• In the Last-panel, the guy is now a God !!

#2: Fruit-flies following me everywhere.

As I was travelling, there were these couple of fruit-flies that appeared, wherever I went off to. 
This was kinda a magnet for embarrassing situations. Can you imagine what would happen if I was in a posh-restaurant and dropped my plate, whilst trying to shoo the flies. The Horror !! Maybe a comic can help put things in perspective..

#3: Wolverine on a cool Bike.

Came across this (color) picture of Wonder-woman on a bike, illustrated by the very talented: Dan Mora. I'm planning to draw a sketch of Wolverine on this bike. It would be really cool and fitting. 

This will be going into my daily-art Sketchbook.
BTW, April is nearing completion and I gotta finish 5 Pages, for my 365-day challenge..

#4: The "Geared" Bicycle:
I bought a new bike, last week, after the "death" of my old bike (Costed, like 15k). 
This new bike has 7x3 gears & learning to ride this bike reqd. so many online-tutorials. (I pretty much ride it well now, though ^^)

A funny comic with 2 panels. 
1st panel: It's 1990, the kid learns to ride a cycle, the good ol' way by learning to balance. You can see a lot of bruises on his arms indicating that he has fallen many times.
2nd panel: It's 2015, the guy learns to ride a geared-cycle. The cycle is packed well and placed behind him securely. (lol)
The guy's on a PC and with a bunch of 1000 page open instruction manuals and whiteboards with blueprints, lying around. And, he's trying to figure how to ride the bike.

My Weekday Routine - Comic

Used one of the Ideas that I had scribbled in this blog for a new comic (here).

Had this idea when I was at office, last week. I was really tensed while checking the mail, as always. But things turned out okay, that day.

Honestly, the horrendous & anxious feelings that I have in the 1st panel are indescribable. The rest is purely comic.

Basically, an IT employee's day depends on MS-Outlook.

BTW, the fan in my room has stopped working, in this humidity.
The irony !!

The Breakdown & Page - 4 art

My Bicycle finally broke down. After an year of adventures, the bike has ultimately Given-up. I'm planning to get a good looking bike this time.

Drew a comic to remember some of the fond mis-adventures that I had:

Also, it was a stupid idea to label each sketch as "Daily Art - x". So, I'll go with "Page - x" instead.  Sketched and painted a few random Cartoons on Page-4 today.(here) Pretty easy.

Gotta place an order for the Black-Marker, as it's seeming to be "thinning" down now.

Ideas for comics

Finished the Superman vs Batman Sketch (here)

But, I drew this image on a larger scale. Deviating from my usual face-only/ tiny cartoon approach.This has made the paper all wobbly due to more amount of water used.

Lesson learnt: Only tiny pictures/ comics in the future pages of this book.

Btw, came across some really cool and inspiring comics. This illustrates a local traditional children's-story. (here) This really gives some ideas on how simple folk tales can be sketched out.

Starting to collect ideas for comics/ strips this weekend:
#1: Happiness in a Neutral Life is when Problems are solved. 
#2: Daily mood before and after checking the daily work-mails: A comic in a flow chart approach.
#3: Sunny weather on Weekends and Pleasantly-Cloudy on Weekdays.
#4: Complete the comic of affection between the boy & his pup.

Gotta do this all, by the weekend. 

Also, I'm listening to "Lacuna Coil" again. Especially the song "End of Time". 
For some reason, this song seems to make me feel like it's raining during the day, the weather is extremely cool and the skies are beautifully cloudy. I've absolutely no work/ worries and ultimately, I'm insanely happy.  It's amazing how music can change your thoughts. 

Copying more Lacuna Coil songs to my Cell now. =)

Batman Addiction

I'm still painting the Batman vs Superman (Daily-Art) sketch.. Looks like I'll take another day.

I don't know how it happened. But, I'm kinda addicted to Batman comics now.

Completed reading the entire "Hush" chapter in 2 days. Really an epic storyline and the best part is almost all of Batman's antagonists have a part in this comic. 

Planning to next draw a scene from "Hush".

Comics & Graphic Novels

Posting this to make a note of all the awesome web-comics, that will inspire me to draw more:

1. Cyanide and Happiness
2. Oatmeal
3. SMBC
4. The Awkward Yeti (Heart & Brain)
5. Funny Korean Comics [aka "Asaekkiga", "yang young soon"] (1,2,3&4)
6. Fowl Language Comics
7. Taptastic (A site that hosts comics, including a few that are listed above)
8. Safely Endangered
9. DeathBulge
10. Stupid Fox
11. Books of Adam
12. Moonbeard
13. The Outer Door (Ongoing Horror Story)
14. Illustration Friday
15. Art of Manliness
16. IrwinCardozo
17. What the Duck
18. Jagodibuja
19. Butter Safe
20. Dorris McComics
21. Business Cat
22. Go Comics (hosts many comics)
23. Rational Comics
24. Loading Artist
25. Funny Superhero comics
26. Incidental comics (Inspiring comics)
27. BigFoot Justice
28. Buddha Doodles
29. jHall Comics (Lot of GoT Parodies)
30. Pie Comic
31. Calm Blue Oceans
32. Sharksplode
33. Webcomics Reddit
34. PotShot (Stoner Comics)
35. Rage Comics (1, 2)
36. GuComics (Single panel with great n funny details)
37. Yahoo! Comic strips (Good Ol' ones like Garfield, Dilbert)
38. AZCentral
39. Up and Out
40. Tumblr
41. Z -Doodler
42. XKCD
43. Min's Struggles (An Artist's Struggle and cool Tutorials)
44. Completely Serious Comics
45. Owl Turd
46. 9gag Comic
47. LOL Comics Time (funny cat comics)
48. Anything Comic
49. Zen Pencils
50. Extraordinary Comics
51. floccinaucinihilipilificationa
52. Extra Fabulous Comics
53. Brown Paper Bag
54. Sarah's Scribbles
55. Things in Squares
56. Noob The Loser
57. ABO Comics
58. Positive Negatives (Comic journalism)
59. Emi gennis
60. Andy warner
61. The last phone call