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 !!

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.

An overdose of DoTA

Pretty much, binged on DoTA today. 

Had a few  awesome moments:
1. As Storm Spirit:

Enemy Radiant Team had: Riki, CK, Tiny, BB & Juggy. But, wiped them out without dying even once. Check out the insane Mana-regen with 6-slotted items. The game was purely satisfying after acquiring a blood-stone. Riki was perma-silenced whenever he got visible.

2. As Earthshaker: 

Went the DPS build - deso, BF, daedalus. 

The awesome moment was when the dire team: CK's illusions, omni, necro, riki, jakiro and a horde of creeps rushed Bot-lane T1 Tower. Instantly blinked-in and had the juiciest ulti. My PC screen-visuals literally shook (due to in-game effects) & ended with a teamwipe.
There was another moment were CK was chain-stunned for, like, 5 secs. Started with a fissure, ministun and lich's ulti. Just friggin' hate CK. This moment felt so good.

3. As Necro:

Was playing from the Dire side, walking towards Radiant T2-mid lane via the cliff-route near the bot rune-spot. Immediately spotted a tiny coming towards me from the high-grounds and pressed Q. 

Tiny used his toss-avalanche combo. But, I instantly started running away, amazingly on 30 HP !! (All thanks to the initial heal). Tiny gave chase but I even got a rune. Bottled up, turned and nuked him down. The awesome moment was when Tiny chased me, desperate for a single Auto-attack !

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.