Illustration Friday : Fly 2

ok... so i cheated... and posted something i had made earlier... and tried to fit it to this weeks topic... i got lazy... but i made a brand new one... apologies... :P

as mel brooks said... if god wanted us to fly, he'd have sent us tickets... :D

P.S. :- for some reason, you can't enlarge this image by clicking on it... i've been trying to upload different sized versions of it but none seem to work... help...

Watercolors... i'm in love with watercolors... :D

last night... after mcdonalds home delivery... had a Maharaja and 4 Mcgrills... saved 2 Mcchickens for later... one before i started this... one in the morning... after i woke up... happy.... :)

In a sea of love

self love, but love nonethless...

Sketchbook pages

Philower

micron tip and watercolor... after a nice dinner at Cama... lovely club sandwich.... yum... :)

The fox alone

that bunny is quite a bastard... must remember to eat him someday....

Fox attack

complete and utter randomness...

Off for fishing

a leetal alcohol and a lot of time in your hand....

Illustration Friday : Fly

faith and the courage for that one step...

although sometimes... its better not to... :P

Hair Gradient

was looking at Anushka Manchanda when i made this... she has the loveliest nose...

Illustration Friday : Germs

A lot of people wouldn't eat at a restaurant if the conditions there are unsanitary... places like Labella and Roopali... but if the food tastes good, germs or no germs, it goes down the hatch... :P

Sketch book inauguration

cover illustration for my new sketchbook which i bought from CEPT... its hardbound and has a nice handmade paper cover... happy!!! :)

Illustration Friday : Wrapped and Poster war Pictures

With so many tentacles i don't know how the jellyfish doesn't get wrapped up in itself....

On another note, i'm quite wrapped up with work myself... but as promised earlier here are some poster war pictures...

Poster war is a part of an annual event in our college, called Monsoon Fiesta where we put up posters in and around the hostel area... there are four teams : Visual Communication(VC), Industrial Design(ID), Foundation(Foundy) and Gandhinagar(GN)... each team makes posters of a particular color and puts them up... the posters are later evaluated on execution, concept and size...

this year VC has blue, ID has red, Foundy has green and GN has white...

here are some pictures... courtesy Facebook... (i don't have a camera of my own...) :P

P.S. :- these pictures are a little old... i'll put up some recent pictures soon....

the last poster was the one we made 2 years ago... when we VC had white... largest poster ever!! it span four floors...

i have not made any of the posters save the first one and the last one, but both of them have been a group effort... it's past my time to make posters, i'm a poster war veteran now... :D

Illustration Friday : Impatience and apologies...

You get really impatient when you work with ancient computers like this one that i'm currently working with right now... it's in Pavan's cabin in NDBI... and is really slow... not that slow, but slow enough and i'm sure that there are hazar viruses in it which enhance its slowness greatly...

also.... i'd like to apologise for my tardiness in the matter of posting... i've been bhairy bhairy bheezee with some freelance(a comic book brochure thingy) and Poster war... for people who don't know what poster war is... i shall put up somepictures to illustrate the topic in a few days.... its loads of fun... Yo VC! :D

shall put up stuff about the freelance as well... :)

Illuistration Friday : Hollow

My submission for this weeks topic... wished i could've finished it.... i have a lot of work, freelance(finally) and otherwise... so i don't have enough time.... i'm getting some time on the comp because i had to scan some stuff, thought i'll post this as well... ok, need to go now... work's calling... :P

Illustration Friday : worn

You know you have worn the same socks one too many times when you can't stand the stink yourself...

its been a long time since i have posted for illustration friday... a long time since i've posted anything at all... i'm terribly busy working on my film right now... and shall be for the coming month or two... hopefully it will be done in time.... shall put up some stuff from my film as well... cheers... and have a happy weekend... :D

Illustration Friday : Adapt

A little late in submitting... but nevertheless... i've done the illustration in illustrator... there are a few glitches because i was hurrying to submit it before it gets too late... i would really like your feedback to improve myself...

Gross!!

One of my favorite hindi songs,

turns out to be copied...

Damn you Bollywood Music Director, damn you all to hell!

for more copied songs please click here, you might find your favorite songs as well... :P

Airtel annoy's me...

I swear I'm going to do it...

Illustration Friday : Cracked

I cracked a bad one...

Illustration Friday : Contagious 2

A cheerleader's enthusiasm can be quite contagious too... :D

Sorry for the double entries... i had two illustrations which were quite apt for the topic(at least thats what i thought), so i had to put them up... Happy weekend... :)

Illustration Friday : Contagious

A smile can be very contagious... beware... :)

Barbershop? Not quite...

So... i tried... Abhisaar, Sachin and me, sang the song together... three times in different tones... originally i was supposed to sing the lead, sachin the tenor and abhisaar the baritone... but Abhisaar couldn't keep the tune... so we decided to sing all of the parts together one by one... except the lead which no one could sing except me... this is how it turned out... pretty sad, but we had fun doing it... also, we were missing the bass... we thought Rustom might sing for us, but the idea abhorred him... :(




I hadn't made a video, and i didn't know how to just post just audio, so i took an old image and made a video out of it... :P

Barbershop training videos are available here... including the one we were trying to sing...

More Illustrator madness

I'm enjoying this a lot... :D
Feedback would be nice... :P

Finished

With the background as promised... the language is different for the subject and the background... hmm... didn't realise that.... :P

Feedback please...

Another Illustration with illustrator

The title says it all... although its not finished yet... need to add a background... am working on one right now... :D

i'm quite enjoying it... nice medium...

Ol' Devil Woman... or maybe not...

It was high time that i started using illustrator... I had been putting off installing illustrator, because i knew in the near future i had to reinstall windows completely... but i never got around to doing that... yesterday, absolutely certain that such a day is not going to happen, i installed illustrator... and started experimenting with it... heres something i did with illustrator and photoshop...

Illustration Friday : Parade 2

I just had to mention my Principal when i mentioned my school... Her name is Mrs. Dastidar... She's this HUGE woman who parades around the school grounds with her BIG umbrella, which she would use to shelter herself from the sun and also to hit unruly boys or girls... but she'd prefer slapping students to hitting them with the umbrella(why waste a good umbrella?)

Illustration Friday : Parade

In School, we had to endure half an hour of morning assembly everyday... And there was no way of escaping it, unless if you fainted or were late for school, but if you did you'd have to stay out in the sun anyways...

It started with a prayer, and then it went on to the news, and then a happy birthday song for anyone whose was born on that day and some years ago, and then some announcements by the principal or vice principal, and finally the national anthem...

I changed my school after the tenth and joined army school... in the vast grounds and the morning prayer accompanied by drums and the harmonium, every morning assembly felt like a parade (:P) ...

We had a school song as well. Once a week, we'd replace the morning prayer with the school song... the words go somewhat like this...

We are children Happy and Gay,
Strongly united, walking all the way,
We are from Army school proudly say,
Always we know and firmly say,

A for amity and Aspiration
R for ready to help anyone,
M for morals we keep with us,
Y for young and yet courageous.

Army school we sing and declare,
we will shine every where,
.....

i forget the rest...

We'd always meddle up the second line.... :P

A new Beginning

I worked in the studio after a really really long time today... Felt like a special occasion... Spent most of the day at chai gate... :D

A second Multitrack : Scarborough Fair Complete

And then i discover this one... the previous one is still my favorite... but this one is complete... :P

Multitrack : Scarborough Fair

One of my favorites... at the bottom left corner, love the way that he comes down a note...

shall be trying something similar soon... ^_^

Ahmedabad

You can't survive in Ahmedabad's summer without an A.C. or at least a cooler... But filling it with water everyday is quite a pain... and then the humidity... oh God!!

Illustration Friday : Hierarchy

So... its been a long time since my last illustration friday post...

I've been working on somethings, not been working on other things... playing a lot of computer games... like RA3... and er... hmm... basically a lot of RA3 and its expansion... i'm living in the hostel with my batchmates, and there are just three of them left, everyone else has left for their diploma projects, and the juniors have left for home... so the hierarchy(seniority) in the hostel has been abandoned for now... and now i can only dominate are troops of Mecha Tengus and Striker-VX's against my computer opponent... :P

Pre Dip

After we gave our final jury, we decided to put up our Pre-diploma display for the entire community to see... Having seen my seniors put up their pre dips before, i knew what we had to put up, but also what we had to live up to... Most of our seniors had individual pre dips, and they had loads of work... great work... i don't know about my batchmates but i was scared... a pre dip is not just any display, it is what you have learnt in the past four years over here in NID... and i didn't know if a small cubicle was enough for me to show anything at all... i didn't know if i had enough work to fill a small cubicle....

We put up our display, all of us except Hunny, she'd fled and was chilling in Bombay... (I've heard rumors of her planning to put up a predip, later, all by herself...)

Things went well, we were one day late in putting up our display, but we extended the timing to compensate for our tardiness...

As far as Pre dips go, ours was just like any other...Poster(s) around campus... Our work stapled on the softboards... and our films played in the computers on the side... Feedback books lying open for any passerby to comment on...

I was happy that it was up but i didn't quite feel like celebrating the beginning of the end of my stay in NID...

*sigh*

Color

Here's one problem that i face... i'm scared of color... well... sometimes... and not really scared... it's not like i can't use color... but i'm so comfortable with the pencil or the pen that i refrain from using the brush... about a month back, i forced myself to use color, on a random sketch... Acrylic paint!!! Something that i hadn't used since character design... I was quite happy with the result as the entire ordeal was quite impromptu...



I regret to say that i haven't touched any colors since... :P

Ze leetal Froggie

I'm a fan of A cappella music... My only source of any such music is Youtube, but the videos posted there, although very good are usually the work of other amateur A cappella enthusiasts... One day, or rather, one night as i was rummaging through Youtube going through some more amateur videos, i came across the video above...
The song stuck... and it stayed stuck...
for several days...
and nights...
and through night mess ...

why the frog?
i don't know...

Self Portrait

I had never done a realistic portrait of myself, always preferring what i thought i looked like to what i really looked like, but some days ago i came across a picture of myself where i didn't mind looking at myself. I said to myself, "God! I'm beautiful!", and so, i went ahead and drew myself...

there was no cigarette in the picture, but i felt like adding it and so i did...

Dubey claims i look like a Chinky Mafia Ganglord... :P

Posting

It has been about 4 months since i last posted!

I'm ashamed of myself... i promised myself i wouldn't do this... and here we are again... *sigh*

New posts coming in... soon!! *promise*

Choti si

Pencil Explorations

few random sketches, trying to improve my pencil skills... all feedback welcome... i need it... :D