Sunday, April 19, 2009

Priyanka.... [medium: color pencils]

A portrait of my best friend :) my 3rd color pencil portrait...

Done with staedtler watercolor pencils on smooth bristol sheet.. around 15hours


Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Joker.. Digital painting

It's not about money... it's about sending a message. Everything burns! - The Joker

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Bruce Wayne: Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.

Alfred Pennyworth: With respect, sir, perhaps this is a man that *you* don't fully understand.

Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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Finally a digital painting on one of my most favorite supervillians of all time.. the Joker! A small tribute from me to the performance of a lifetime by the late Heath Ledger.. Around 15 hours on Adobe Photoshop CS2 using wacom intuos3.

Please do drop in your comments and views...
And I hope you get the hidden message [literal] in the painting :)

R.I.P. Heath...


Monday, February 16, 2009

Heroes season 2 : my script - link list

chapter1 : http://latent-talents.blogspot.com/2007/05/heroes-new-timeline-part-one_30.html

chapter2 : http://latent-talents.blogspot.com/2007/05/heroes-new-timeline-part-two-showdown_30.html

chapter3: http://latent-talents.blogspot.com/2007/06/heroes-armageddon-part-3-something-gone.html

chapter 4: http://latent-talents.blogspot.com/2007/07/heroes-armageddon-part-4-hidden.html

chapter 5: http://latent-talents.blogspot.com/2007/07/heroes-armageddon-part-5-resurrection.html

chapter 6 [finale] : soon to come !

Episode reviews [on orkut] : http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=21892122&tid=2535132636510711276&kw=heroes+script

Monday, May 5, 2008

My design.. Equine R2 Concept

My new car design.. Equine R2 Concept car..

Wanted to create a super sleek slightly futuristic car model.
done on photoshop CS3. using wacom tablet... no 3d tool help or references..





Monday, April 21, 2008

Graphite Realism Tips Part Two : Which pencils to use where..

Mechanical 2H 0.5mm pencil :
- Best grade around for realistic art, can be used to complete 85% of the drawing.
- Can be erased easily [if pressure < medium pressure]
- Its the finest mechanical pencil lead, so can be used to create very fine long hair.
- Is very light, so can be used to make some fine shades on the body.
- Can be used as a very good base for skin, since it creates a smooth base layer when used on skin in either straight line pattern [female faces] or crosshatched pattern [male faces]. Smudging should be followed by tissue paper for female faces after this method. For male faces, you can leave it unsmudged or smudge using a brush, which removes texture out of the paper very lightly. Will discuss smudging in detail later on.
- For making fine black hair base. If you want real fine black hair, create a base layer with this [make fine hair, with hair strokes in a lock of hair following parallel paths]. By base, I mean an initial setup for making fine shining black hair. You can leave some spaces where there's shine but no problem if you make the entire hair base and later erase out some regions using the fine edge of an eraser.
- For making very light details on lips [used in circular pattern for lips, although using circulism using 2H mech pencil can be very tough at first. Use low pressure for circulism.
- For making very fine hair, use this pencil at a 80-90 degree angle to the paper, and apply high pressure, but be careful as if you make a wrong stroke, it will make its permanent impression over the drawing even if you remove it.


Mechanical 2B 0.5mm pencil :
- Very important grade when you are making black hair, deep eyes, gap between teeth and tongue, etc.. If you're making a dark background, its a bad idea to use this, since it becomes very tedious.
- This grade should be avoided to make very fine hair, since its very rough and it will destroy the quality of fineness.

To be continued...

Please Note :
-The above tutorial was written by me by what I understood by experimenting with different stationery and observing many great works and trying to decipher how they've been done. I may use some self-defined terms coz they work for me. If you want to put up these tutorials elsewhere, plz give due credit to me! [:D] and link me to that site.
-My methods of drawing keep on changing, so I will try to write the methods which have consistently given me good results.
-Feedback : Please give me feedback about this and tell me if you are unable to understand anything. I'll clarify.
- Tips are provided "as is" and the author is not responsible for any damages done to your drawing or your methods :D
Thats all. All the best!!

Graphite Realism Tips One : About pencils

Hi!

First of all, there are 2 types of pencil renderings/drawings..
1. Stroked renderings
Stroked renderings have always been taught in art schools and are used for traditional figure drawing. Stroked renderings dont produce realistic results because of the rough nature of the pencils used [rough graphite or charcoal pencils] and smudging is rather less or not used at all. These drawings are done both on rough and smooth textured papers.

2. Stroke-less renderings
Stroke-less renderings are done on smooth papers generally or on skin textured [with adjustable texture] papers [called vellum papers]. In such drawings, smudging is a must and smoother pencils must be used. Hyper-realistic drawings are always strokeless, meaning you cant see clear strokes on the paper in the final outcome.

Choosing graphite pencils for realism can be tricky, since we cannot have any pencils which make rough strokes, since rough strokes can
1. Make the drawing look unrealistic,
2. Spoil the smooth texture of the paper.

So obviously we have to use the smoothest pencils most of the time.
Such smooth pencils can be either some monoliths [monolith = graphite body pencils or woodless pencils] which are very smooth or mechanical pencils.

Very good examples of monolith pencils :
1. Cretacolor monoliths
2. Koh-i-noor woodless pencils

There might be others too, but I've only used this till now..

Mechanical pencils or Clutch pencils come generally in 3 sizes : 0.5mm, 0.7mm, 2mm
The 0.5mm is very good for fine pencil drawings and i recommend it for all realistic drawings.
Grades to use : 2h,hb,2b,4b [very rare in 0.5mm]

Very good examples of mechanical leads :
1. Camlin leads
2. Cretacolor leads

Avoid using Staedler pencils and leads. they're very rough. Although staedler HB lead is great for fine light colored hair but its not that we cannot use the suggested leads in that case.

Next tutorial would be on "Which pencil to use where".


Please Note :
-The above tutorial was written by me by what I understood by experimenting with different stationery and observing many great works and trying to decipher how they've been done. I may use some self-defined terms coz they work for me. If you want to put up these tutorials elsewhere, plz give due credit to me! [:D] and link me to that site.
-My methods of drawing keep on changing, so I will try to write the methods which have consistently given me good results.
-Feedback : Please give me feedback about this and tell me if you are unable to understand anything. I'll clarify.
- Tips are provided "as is" and the author is not responsible for any damages done to your drawing or your methods :D
Thats all. All the best!!