Chivalry's not dead

I had almost lost all faith in humanity due to a lot of personal events, lately.
Including the fact that I, myself had gotten sloppy, clumsy, careless and indifferent.
I used to be more responsible and grateful to the people, around me.

Anyways, today's events  (the great june handicap) later, I found that humanity still persists. From doctors to friends, to teachers to acquaintances, someone does care and indeed help. Sometimes, it is ok to ask for help and it is necessary to always help those who care. Do not regret past decisions, just because of a few unfortunate circumstances, in the present.

The life before was lazier and comfortable. The life now is tough and challenging.
I think that's where the excitement lies and satisfaction that emerges after solving such troubles. Troubles come in packs and when they start unfolding, so does our true nature and our personalities.

Fear is followed by pain and solution to that pain is followed by pure Joy.
Anyways, I'm still very incoherent yet happy and am thinking of making a comic to express all these thoughts. 

"It's ok to be lonely but it's not ok to be alone."

Gotta be more active.

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.

Back from the Dead Yet more Alive than Ever

February was the last time I posted ?!?
It's been a Hell of a past few months, since Feb...

After a lot of twists and turns and a lot of pain and gratifications...
Thankfully it hasn't all been in vain... I got into a D-School which I had Aspired for, since 2 Years...

It was ecstatic and painful, at the same time... When I learnt that I got in... The Irony !
A lot of my close-friends helped me and I'm really very grateful to them for reaching out, during these tough times... (woa, it hasn't been so worse.. I do make things worse than they actually are.. Don't I? )

Anyways, during all this time, I've been working on countless stuff...
Yet I'm a Novice and I understand that I still have a long long way to go..

I've been lost the last couple of days due to constant worrying and anxiety due to these big-changes... But the dust is now settling.. Hopefully, I can focus and resume what I love doing..

A Lot of Ideas have started popping in my head.. 
"Do this, Do that" I think and finally due to too many unrealistic ideas, I do Nothing...

So, 1 Work at a time.. The Portfolio !
I'm gonna present what I've done during the last few months... Maybe on a separate blog...

If that works, off I go to resume Graphic-Novels... Yes, I have a silly idea for some sketches..

Also, on an ending-note: Helvetica will be my new font of choice !
After all, I'm officially a Design Student now.. .Thanks to a lot of people...  :)

The iPad era

As I'm posting this, I'm also frantically searching for the stuff that I've been working on, lately.. I officially wrote my previous post, during the last year.. ;)

I got an iPad, a month ago... Mainly to read comics and to do a bit of sketching...
I almost grew pretty weary of it, quite quickly...

However, not all hope is lost.. :D  
I've been sketching quite more than what I'd actually expected on the iPad and it's awesome !! (though, none of them are worthy of being shared)

Excited, I'd ordered Pencil by 53, a few weeks back and it should be delivered to me, tomorrow...  Anyways, recollecting what I've sketched the last month... 








3 sketches, worthy of sharing (LOL).. 

I wanna hit myself.. Many ideas have slipped my mind and I'm to blame..
 

But, quite honestly, the only thing that's not making me insecure and assuring me that I'm being quite creative is that I'm working on this comic/ graphic-novel, based on the life of a dog.. 


I've not worked on it the last 2 days, due to some genuine reasons.. ;)  (a sort of a game changing week, if you will) But I have finished around 30% of it... 

I had originally intended to finish it Today, so that I'd post it and feel pretty satisfied and mitigate the effects of not posting aka not being creative, for a while.. 




You see, I now perceive blog-posts here as a measure of how productive I've been in a week ;).. So, if I do not post for a long time, it means that I've been a lazy arse and that scares me... Given that it's a whole new year...


As penance, I'm gonna try posting a sketch every day starting tomorrow... No matter how busy I'm gonna be, in addition to posting the Dog's tale, both, by next weekend... 

If I do not do this, I will kick myself... I will literally kick my ass, if I fail to do this... :D

Mixed-Bag

What do you do when you're patiently waiting for something/ someone...
Well, I like to draw stuff... I used to draw a lot before too, but never held on to the sketches...

Sometimes they're illustrations and at other times, they're plain practice-sketches.
Although I  know, that the sketches aren't that great, they do speak stories and reflect feelings...

    

It reminds me of the day that I drew it...
It reminds me what was going on in my head and the emotions I had on that day...

In other words, they're Memories and constant reminders of something beautiful or gruesome..


aaaaaaaaah, who cares... I just scribble when I'm bored at work, sigh....

A Long post about A Long game of DoTA

To me: Thrill, action and comebacks are the prime-elements that determine a "good game" [GG].

The anxiety and fear can get blown out of proportions when you are pushing desperately, while the enemy team is hot on pursuit. This is why I love DoTA.

It is pretty hard to find all this, in every game. Some games are boring, long and really one-sided. Not today. There was one particular game today, that had all the good stuff. 

It was a Cloudy Sunday [I love cloudy]. I played as my favorite hero: Shadow Fiend [SF], from the Dire-side, with "Led Zeppelin IV" playing in the background.

The game was going largely in our team's favor early-on and I was insanely lucky.

 For eg: I successfully ganked the bot-lane at the 5-min mark and was going to the rune. I was pretty low on HP.  

Suddenly, a wild Bounty-Hunter [BH] appears and starts hitting me. I see the mid-lane aXe too and he uses Battle-Hunger on me. I was around 100 HP and was convinced that I'm done.

To my surprise, our team (Wind and Lion) actually counter ganked. A perfect shackle and impale on both aXe and BH.

I got off 2 Razes, wiping out BH. The positioning was wicked too. aXe nearly caught up to me when our Lion hexed him. I got off a few auto attacks and a final raze, killing him too. Walked away at 40 HP with a double-kill !!

The mid-game went to be one-sided, in our favor. There was a moment when lion impaled and used finger of death, Solo-killing Riki. We were owning.

And, then it happened. A Gank where all of us went Rambo-mode. Everyone from our Team Died !! I bought back but realized that the Radiant now had a shitload of gold.

As we gradually advanced to Late-game, I realized that Riki had gotten really very powerful. I could escape a few times, using the Euls and Blink combo. But, 3 attacks from Riki were enough to wipe me out. The game had now changed and Radiant could win this.

The desperate split-push to try and come back, began. The tempo of "Stairway to Heaven" was perfectly synchronizing to the situation. The Radiant were defending with all they could. Killing off a few from our team, whenever someone slipped.

Suddenly, I realized that I had a BKB and enough gold for a buyback. There was a Gank at the T3 Radiant tower and I decided to go ALL-IN. 

All Hell Broke Loose. I used my BKB and Requiem. It was shocking to see that enemy Sven still had no BKB. This was the reason why we could comeback. Sven, aXe and BH were wiped off.

Venge and Riki were on really low HP, but killed me. Our Lion used Dust, just before he died too. I immediately bought back, TPed to battle once again and killed them both off.

The action was still not over. Riki and BH bought back. I found a random gem lying on ground. Picked it up, only to find that Riki was about to attack me. He and BH instantly killed me off.  However, the Dire had Mega-Creeps by then. 

It was too late for the Radiant. Their "Ancient" was not defended well enough and we won.

Daily - Art #3 and #4

Sketched 2 Stupid Dogs (here) yesterday, but was too lazy to post it..

Painted Killer Frost (here) today. 
Will complete the remaining members of the Suicide-Squad over the weekends.



Got a record high XPM of: 1756 / min as Meepo, today. This is the new score to beat.

Also, on an unrelated note, I must get a box of Altoid Peppermint. Had a few today and the mint as well as the tin-box, in which they are kept, were simply awesome.

Simple vs Advanced Sketches

Weekdays vs Weekends...

It's too tiring on Weekdays and I never am in the mood to sketch something big.
I dream of doing something big and end up doing nothing at all.

So, I think I will sketch very easy stuff & color using color pencils/ fine-liners.

• Copy Urban-sketch Illustrations (Rob Carey, Paul Heaston) 
• Practice each elements of the final sketch that I plan to do over weekends
• Doodle typographic art (The rock band's names)
• Draw & paint each character from a comic book/ anime.
• Copy illustrations from Mary Doodles/ Mark Crilley/ Cartoon Block.
• Sketch very simple comic-strips.

On Weekends, pretty big stuff like sketching & painting ideas that I note down in this Blog. 


Basically, it's "Copying" on Weekdays and strictly "No Copying" on Weekends.

Why a blog ?

I have recently taken to sketch and paint, a lot... 

This helps me kill a lot of free-time, during weekends...

But, there's one problem: When I'm absolutely free, I do not know what to draw...

When I'm busy working or in the loo or about to fall asleep, I get these awesome "drawing" ideas... (lol)   But, I keep forgetting them because I never note them down... 


So, Why a Blog ?

I'll post my experiences or "ideas/ plans" that I come up with (or maybe, simply share interesting stuff)... Basically, I think that this should help me with the illustrations when I'm free...

I figured I'd rather have a blog than having the trouble to remember stuff... 


Hopefully, this will add a little bit of excitement... Tbh, right now, I'm pretty skeptical as I do not see myself taking the pain to post stuff, after a long, boring & tiring day...

Time will Tell ?