Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Photoshop Revisited

I'm a novice when it comes to Photoshop, but decided to give it a go, nonetheless.

And it's actually fun.. (Though it can quickly get frustrating at times). Here's why...



Yeah, drew a quick sketch to display in the bottom right section. And it needed a bit of PS.

Looks pretty cool. I think I'll spam this section next =D

Sunday, July 12, 2015

A Researcher now..


Inspired by a documentary on the Life of a Black-Wolf.

Some stuff to read this week:
A: Famous Artists, Painters and Designers.
     Historic Monuments.
     Logos (IITs and National Bodies)

B: Use of Everyday simple & common objects for designing innovative products.
     How to use simple shapes for constructing objects.
     Poster Making Tutorials.

Some Lessons Learnt:
- Improve speed of sketching, without losing accuracy.
- HB Pencils first and quick mechanical-pencil follow up. Captions in Ink.

Other stuff to do:
- Gesture Drawings (here: GrizandNorm & ArtofAlan).
- More Female Art.
- Design For Life.

Completed 2k7. Practiced some sketching, applied anatomy, shadows and perspectives in this piece:


Favorites, this week:
Music: Major Lazer - Lean On
Movie: Fight Club
Tv-Show: South Park
Hero [DoTA]: Storm Spirit.
Artist: Cartoon Block (for so many tutorials)

Sunday, July 5, 2015

A Superhero Addiction




Luckily, came across this thing called "Hand Lettering"..

Yeah, seems that this is the actual-phrase for those cool looking "graphic" letter-design styles..
I used to refer to it as "Typography", sometimes "Calligraphy", but it is actually Hand-Lettering...

Some interesting-articles & reads:

- Fonts: Technicality (here)
- Hand-Lettering Tutorials (by Marzi Pan)
- Creativity-Tutorial (here)

Quotes (for future sketches =) ):

    - Why do we fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
    - Wind blows the hardest the closer you get to the mountaintop


Hellboy & Wolverine
Was watching a tutorial on "Line-Weights", when I started doodling. The resultant was pretty nice. So, I decided to "detail" it.

Also, tried to create a sketch with the "foreshortening" effect.

I needed an easy character, so decided to go with my favorite: Samurai Jack for this.

Used basic perspective for the sketch and some Hand-Lettering skills, that I recently acquired.

This also gave me a chance to re-use my old aquarelle and usual color pencils. And, some sketch pens.



Btw, before I forget, some stuff that I need to go through, this week:
- Anatomy:  Deep dive (My Drawing Tutorials and revisit Alphonso)
- "How I shade" by Mark Crilley
- Complete 2k6 (Going rather well, I can say)
- Redo D'source.
- Logo/ Section-art for "A Stable World". xD

Was watching some videos by Jim Lee and one particular video by Humberto Ramos sketching Spider-man. So, decided to go for it:





Btw, Favorites, this week:
Music: Linkin Park - In the End (oh wow, such a new song.. Shuddup !!)
Movie: Ex Machina
Tv-Show: Daredevil
Hero [DoTA]: Ursa & Anti-Mage
Artist: Marzi Pan & Humberto Ramos 

Until Next Week or earlier ! xD

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

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.




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....