Happy New 2013 :)

Heres Gouche on boxboard ..

Wish everyone a very 
Pleasureable
Happy
Joyous
Blissful
New 2013 !

Light !

Always a pleasure to play with Light !

Snowy

 

Lonely at the top :)
Some envios spawned from my earlier post of BnW thumbnails .. also thinking of doing concept art for all fairy tales I know.. more coming up on those :)

Black & White

Playing with Black & White .. inks markers & washes... creating spaces.. or more aptly, putting down Mindspaces :)

 applied a little block filter  over the entire page scan -

Treecosystem !

A short story / concept that I am working on .. had started that long ago ..just pulled it out of the attic .. hopefully to compete soon ..
 Cheers :)

What I really need !

Work .. take a break .. work .. hectic schedule .. work .. travel .. work ... workshops ... projects .. pitches .. work .. sketch .. color .. plan .. look behind .. work ... look ahead.. plan .. relax.. read.. work .. late nights.. early mornings .. have fun .. hot summers .. chilled beer.. work .. Phew !!

What I really need is .. this !

Some brushes to explore!

Hi posting a few explorations with verry good watercolor brushes that I found for PS CS4!
Was pretty happy with playing with those on canvas textures .. very interesting randomness in the B&W textures that I got within the brushes.. Its good to try & simulate the actual manual colors & ink behavior in the digital form :)
Cheers ;) !

All strings detached !

Some of my musings, more of "ANGRY abstracts" ... also has a quote I read in a ZEN book by Osho .. its about how lighter & unburdened your mind must be to fly on a higher plane.. I love that thought and totally agree that the bindings & attachments we have in some way burden us in more ways than one.
Went on spontaneously & vigorously, hence these images ..
enjoy !

Keep studying 'n Keep Sketching !

Hi .. posting a study sketch for a very interestingly lit corner .. worth calling a COZY corner for the inviting feeling ! did this from a photograph in a mag (about 20 mins) .. they are great sources for sketching .. be it places, lighting, people, fashion, fabrics etc..
Cheers all !

Bak to digital concepts !

Hi posing some digital doodles on a concept Ive been onto for some time now .. these are just explorations of temples in concept art ( seen lot of gothic structures & cathedrals ) .. hence just brushing up something on traditional Indian structures .. will be posting lot more these lines soon ...
Cheers!

Travelogue

Hi ..these are impressions of an amazing Natures Lasers Show we(me + 5) experienced while driving on highway from Nasik to Pune on sunday evening. It was a tedious and slow drive with very less visibility & average road laced with streaks of bright lights !
One of the most spectacular lightnings ive seen that lasted for almost 2 hrs surprisingly without much thunder & heavy rains !
I Had to let it out visually hence this post ..
Cheers !

.. Contd ( with the hangover ) ..

Hi there .. going ahead from where i left.. adding some more quick doodles that I did on the outdoors .. and some more thumbnail wanderings I did a few days later.. ( i love doing those :P )
For the love of trees !!

enjoy !

What you see & feel !

Hi all
wanted to share this dearly ! I had a chance to go for outdoor sketching & painting with students of Symbiosis design school to the lush campus of PUNE univ. A scorching day @ 39-40 deg. Yet under the massive banyan trees felt nothing. Such was the cool shade & the breeze. The task was to draw , sketch paint what you see .. I wanted to draw what I saw but ended up drawing what I felt as the feeling was much stronger , peaceful & beyond !
Also ended up doing quite a few sketches which Ill update soon. What a nice little refreshing trip it was , felt a bit guilty for not doing such sketching+painting trips often .. Would really like to get away from those Monitors & go out in lap of nature more frequently ! hopefully I will ...

for Peace :)

Sci-Fi

Hi all...
posting some sci-fi / futuristic stuff &.. also found some interesting quotes on technology..After long played with Graphics & some interesting typefaces I downloaded ..

I love doing sci-fi stuff & its an amazing line to explore & stretch mind... but the thought of a future , lifeless & over digitised with technology laden lifestyle without any vegetation & nature gives me a eerie kind of a feeling.. just a thought I have ..

cheers !

The waterfall

Hi again.. Im posting 2nd post today! .. anyways.. picked up a thumbnails from my earlier color thumbnail posts & went on with it.. Already working on other thumbnails too... will keep posting sooner than later..
cheers

Cave Painting.. quite literally!

This one comes after long time.. always have this thought of adding just 'Something' before I post & that never happens.. anyways just posting it as it is.. included are layout thumbnails.. trying to find diff interesting compositions..
Will surely be working a bit more on this soon.. till then had to post it.. to keep active!
also im not too good at spacecrafts so have just put in a quick random one.. for some scale & movement.. hope u guys enjoy!

Inspiration.. courtesy Planet earth...!!

Hi..

Have been seeing the PLANET EARTH documentaries for quite some time.. Never fails you to provide a dose of inspiration from natural wonders & soothe you with the narration ..
heres one concept.. will be refining this & may be take this as a matte painting startoff .. there are always those plans behind every doodle.. very few reach the final goal..
still need to be hopeful all the time...:)

'cheers

Take a plunge... really need to !

Hi,
posting after quite long.. dont know why :-S ...X( ... but anyways.. will try to be more active..just a piece inspired from a photograph for the lighting & the misty feel...
trying to regain some momentum & rhythm for paintings after getting stuck with not so great freelance work ( which you have to do sometimes to keep the shop running..!)
will be posting many soon .. Lets go go go go!
cheers

Colors

Hi all, posting some more thumbnails & doodles from my sketchbook.. ( digital one of-course )..
nothing more to say.. enjoy & cheers!

An exrecise

Hi all, haven't posted for long.. posting some thumbnails done as a study for totans & light .. Its good to layout blank grey rectangles & start with wide random strokes across all of them & then add light & start searching for environments , compositions interesting patterns among them .. Its a fun way to break free & work simultaneously on series of thumbnails...

The second one is the same thought process but with color.. you can take any family of color & work on all of them together .. Its pure fun ! a happy accident process.. somehow I always enjoy that ! It also help in establishing some underlying progression to all thumbnails like a colorscript..
You can always take one of those & build lot of details for final render..

Just some of my ways to keep working & exploring.. hope u enjoy!
cheers