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It's been awhile

It's been a long time since I've tried using my Wacom to fulfill my own little dreams and aspirations.

One of them being digital painting.

I impatiently did a test run with a borrowed Wacom, hoping that it'll quench my need to paint. I find that my inconsolable obsession with Photoshop and painting still stands strong and perhaps i should dabble a little more in the 'finer' musings of my mind. Here's to 2016 hoping that i'll get a chance to pick up where i'd left of with my love affair.

Practice, yes yes

I guess i'll just leave this here since it was a practice piece.

festive!

spooky nights!

I've been getting strange dreams for a few days in a row now! And what better than to put up a post on Halloween!

I know it isn't a big thing here except for the parties which happen where everyone dresses up like a well oiled black cat with a lot of bling :) I've read a lot about this whole pumpkin craze and have always wanted to carve my own pumpkin. As a kid i used to always be on the lookout for a huge orange vegetable to carve on and as soon as i'd find a vegetable vendor, he'd have already cut the not so orange pumpkin into slices. I doubt anybody would appreciate eating pumpkin pulp for a week at my place anyway so it's good i didn't get my hands on one. The thing which used to fascinate me the most was this whole 'trick-or-treat' business. Candy is my biggest weakness and i'd do anything to dress up and get candy for being a cute ghost or something!

Anyway!
Random doodles in the good spirit of this curious holiday!

Thanks for looking!

pumpkin flavoured cupcakes would be strange

my cat fascination kicks in!

small small...

Just a post jury update of some digital and sketchy stuff. My eye infection seems to have subsided , and with that i've learnt to put eye-drops by myself as well. It's so much easier when someone is putting it for you, such small luxuries are always easily overlooked.Hence the saying 'you don't know what you've gotten until it's gone' holds so true.

2009, NID cats love sleeping and i love them so, even if they scratch me or go bipolar on me!

Summer sets in so quickly in Ahmedabad,before my jury 2009

The NID design fest poster which i made
with typography very patiently added
 by my Graphic Design Junior Pragun Agarwal.
 Many many thanks to him.

Winter is my favourite time of the year!

My Skyrim character enjoying some sweet rolls and mead
at the Thalmoor embassy. Another summer time doodle

Here's a song which i've always enjoyed, and probably goes with the mood i'm in right now as well.

sigh...

My jury has gotten postponed and the lineup for presentations has changed as well! And as luck has it, i have come down with an eye infection, something which goes by the name 'allergic conjunctivitis'. I can barely keep my eyes open when i'm travelling , and i feel this constant prickling sensation in my eyes.

At the moment i look super sick and i feel like pulling my eye out. But i'm glad that my jury will get over tomorrow and i can finally start working on animating my classroom project!
I feel like putting an eye patch and going for my jury tomorrow :D

Cup O'Doodle 2

Heres a second attempt for one of the  http://cupodoodle.blogspot.in/ doodles.

 And in other news.. the weather is terrible in Ahmedabad! Juries for our animation batch is on the 18th and 19th of October, end of this week, good luck to everyone! :)

Birthday!

To my very dear friend Srija, hope you have a lovely birthday! I'm a day late, so sorry for that.
Cheers to our lovely escapades in school and i hope that you always stay the same crazy person that you have been for the years i've known you. Many happy returns of the day!

Cup O'Doodle

I came across a wonderful blog  http://cupodoodle.blogspot.in/ and they seem to have a weekly ritual where a few doodly lines are handed over for artists to interpret in anywhich way they want to. So here's my first go at it.

Thanks for looking!

Bearly Sleeping

With the juries coming up, i've 'bearly' been sleeping. The funny thing is, i haven't been working too much either, this strange state of being is a very very unhealthy lifestyle to keep especially if i want to keep my brain .. how should i say this... "fresh"!

summer time

The summer of 2012 was spent in Bombay interning at Turner Broadcasting. Whenever i found some free time i was constantly working on photoshop and painting things everyday.
I've always been a HUGE fan of digital painting and i've always found my attempts to be less than perfect and thankfully, this feeling helps me paint more and more everyday, because you never know what effect you'll come up with each time.

I've just put together some stuff from this summer
I enjoyed doing all of them because there were so many things which i kept figuring out every time i picked up that stylus.

my first, my hands got terribly tired after this

sick of strokes so i decided to do some vector stuff. This was made in fond memory of a doodle i n my best friend's sketchbook

a fox never ceases to amuse me, i wish i could make dress fold better. This dress looks like a fondant cake

lets forcibly make some stuff so that i can calm my paranoid self into believing that i'm still capable of doing digital painting

Egypt is such a lovely place, animal worship is so divine

Fan art for the french movie 'Le Chat du Rabbin' or 'Rabbi's Cat'

I forgot to add that i have a deep mermaid fascination as well

Parth was very happy when Diablo 3 came out and so was i, if he plays it then i do too :D

a self reflective course!

As is tradition in NID, we have a course known as 'science and liberal arts' every semester. This post is regarding one of the earliest SLAs(science and liberal arts) we had with a very lovable faculty!
We were told to illustrate two self portraits which could encompass the way we feel about ourselves and the world.

All three portraits had me sewing my very own blanket of dreams, full of imaginary beings and environments, cordoned off my the outside world. Almost like i'm floating in my very own bubble unaware of the world which waits beyond it.

using junk material to create a self portrait, i used some punched put shapes from
the animation lab paper puncher. cut up a tetra pack of Tropicana apple
 and scavenged the textile studio for some cloth scraps and yarn.

an earlier version of the portrait, just a simple illustration
inked on paper from which i took que to make the junk portrait.
This was the very first attempt at a self portrait for the course.

one of my first digital paintings, we had to pick a
certain painting style for the very same self portrait,
 i tried to somewhat work with surrealism,
but it seems more real than surreal no?

Thanks for looking :)