Sunday, December 09, 2007

Metzengerstien- by Edgar Allan Poe








These are some sketches for 1 of my classes, 'Drawing for Film'
The story is about 2 wealthy families in the 1800's .Never before were 2 houses so illustrious,mutually embittered by hostility so deadly.One of them had a stable that burnt to the ground.

I went for a 'Tim Burton' look cause I've always liked his style.Hope you guys enjoy these pieces.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Thesis- Color study


Quick little color study I did over a thumbnail sketch of the sub with divers.

composition thumbnails





I've finally got around to posting some of my compositions.Its been a while!
these are a couple of value sketches I've done for my personal Project.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

The Simpsons trailer is finally out-







a.k.a.Clips of my works are finally out :-).Cant wait till the game ships this FALL!Till then, Enjoy the trailers everyone!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Sunshine :Danny boyle, A genius?


ABSOLUTELY!
For all you Si-Fi enthusiasts/ fanatics this movie is the one to spend your hard earned money on!Its exhilarating all through, very smartly written by Alex Garland and made by an absolutely brilliant director, Danny Boyle.After I watched this movie I thought to my self,THIS is why I'm in the entertainment business'. As a conceptual design student I can tell you that its watching movies like these that will always want me to be associated with films like these and hope to work with good directors like Paul Greengrass, Alfonso Cuaron, Danny Boyle and the likes.
With the exception to the design of the Icarus itself, there is no real out of the ordinary design work, but very dramatic and cool visuals none-the-less
Here's the premise of the story -
In 50 years from now the Sun is dying.It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the Sun that is failing. The story concerns the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission. On their journey towards the Sun the crew stumble upon the ship that was sent on the same mission seven years previously, the Icarus I, drifting in space. From this point on things start to go very wrong and it’s about how the crew react under the enormous pressure of their endeavor to save mankind.

More movie content:
Sunshine production Diaries

Friday, June 01, 2007

Value Study


just another exercise i did- mainly focusing on value rather than color.I like to do these kinds of exercises as and when time permits-

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Viansa Winery- SONOMA






Title : ViansaWines
Medim : Oli On Canvas
Size : 24" * 36"

Time to completion : 6 hrs

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Thesis Design : Machine Sketch and mechanical detail



Some sketches out of my thesis project and mechanical blueprints - more to come...

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thesis Design - Underwater Lighting Studies




I did these studies a while ago but just didn't get around to posting these here.The point of this study was to imitate water and the lighting underwater on photoshop.I'm happy with the result for the most part,only that the images are to the darker side is what bothers me-

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Monday, April 02, 2007

Digital Cityscape Painting - Exercise




No real reson to why i did this- I had this idea of an opening shot
to a futuristic cityscape spinning in my head ever since I saw blade
runner with the bursts of fire comming out of the top of the buildings-
In homage to that scene i created 1 of my own.







Friday, March 30, 2007

Quick Studies -




Medium : Oil on 8"*11" canvas
Quick studies

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

'View from Sausalito Bay'







Title - 'View from Sausalito Bay'
Medium - Oil on Canvas
Size - 24" * 36"

Monday, February 12, 2007

Sausalito Bay



Medium- Oil on canvas
Size- 9" * 12"

Sunset at La Jolla





Medium- Oil on Canvas
Size- 24" * 36"

Monday, December 11, 2006

from my sketch book


OK, so I confess, I havent been Sketching from life as much as i should- but here's a start-This was done on location and i tried to capture light and shadw using strictly values through #H,#B and HB Pencils.Hope to post more of these in the future

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Tranquil River




Medium: Pastel
Canvas: La'carte Paper
Size: 13 * 18

Monday, October 30, 2006

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Pastel painting




Pastel on laCarte Paper
Size : 16 * 20
Time Taken: 6 hours

This was an intresting study.Its quite expressive given the use of colors in this piece.I wanted to have an overall warm look and contrast it with the cool greens of the fields.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Cloud Study


Yet another impressionistic landscape painting.
I went for the really thick paintstrokes this time around.i think the challange here was getting the colors of the sky just rite.I used a lot of ultramarine blue with 40% white and some naples yellow to unify the piece with the ground color.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Impressionistic painting





Bored 1 sunday morning I thought to myself-hey,wouldnt it be GREAT to do a study of a master painting- so here it is.
I've planned to do 1 every weekend or whenever time permits.
The second 1 is done in pastels- I have a love and hate relation with the medium- I love it for landscapes but have the hardest time doing figures with it.
I hope i can get better with time

Quick study



This painting was inspired by 1 of my favorite concept artists-Eric tiemens.
A quick sketch and a lighting study on photoshop.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

ConceptArt Thread


Hey people,
I just put up some of my work on conceptart.org
for critique.Its been great so far.Some things
people pointed out about my work, I had not noticed
before.Well, I think thats how it works cause you
spend so much time looking at your work that after
a while you stop seeing anything new in it.
This,I found was a good way to get around this problem.
Hope you guys enjoy it.

www.conceptart.org

Monday, August 07, 2006

still life painting


Just did this today as my final piece for 1 of my classes.

some of my work...


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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Jacob collins - A Master Painter


One of my friend's sent me a link to his site.I must say, his figurative works are one of the best I have seen yet.Do let me know if you know of anyone else whos is as good or better.(hard to belive that someone could be better)

Jacob Collins Painter

A Friend and Mentor


I am happy to let all of you know that the long awaited 'D'ARTISTE Concept Art-Ballistic publications' book is finally out and George has some really good tutorials in there.You guys should definately check it out.Some great tips on photoshop renders and good concept design work.
CONGRATULATIONS G!


If you are intrested in puchasing a copy here's a link to the homepage: WWW.GHULL.COM

Doug Chiang Studio

This is a great FAQ page.Very informative of how 1 of the greats works and how he deals with creative blocks,something we all go through, atleast i do (on a daily basis!)
enjoy!!

Doug Chiang Studios

Art of Pencil Drawing


This is a great book written by Ernest W.Watson.Its always good to go back to basics once in a while.This book talks about line weight and there is a lot of emphasis on patterns of the subject you are drawing.
DEFINATELY A MUST READ FOR ANY ILLUSTRATOR.
Currently I've been doing exercises using this book as a guide and its already helped my line drawings.Again, I cannot stress enough on how much help this book can be.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Stephean Hawking : Astro-physicist



Hey Guys,

I'v always been an admirer of Stephen Hawking's work and this article I went through definetly gives an insight on how a guy suffering from ALS can still hold the position of Sir Issac Newton in the University of Cambridge.

I am quite often asked: How do you feel about having ALS? The answer is, not a lot. --- Stephen Hawking.

Article : http://www.hawking.org.uk/disable/dindex.html

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Great sites to learn hardsurface modeling from..

Tom rules again 'yall!He gave us these 3 links, all of which are great car modeling tutorials.Some are spline based (Tom was not too excited about that) and some have great blue prints that u can download.

Here are the links :
www.blissdd.com : go to the "Play" menu, and then download the WRX folder.You'll love it!
www.suurland.com : for blueprints
www.onnovanbraam.com/tutorials/splinecarmodeling/ : this one is the spline car modeling tutorial.
Enjoy ! :)

Calling all PIXAR enthusiasts'




Hello People,
If you'v not already heard, PIXAR is comming to the academy to hier!Yeppy, hurray and the whole shebang! This time to hier only TD's though.So, my request to all TD's out there, get into gear! Best of luck to all 'yall who are applying.The event is scheduled for the 2nd of March at the Morgan Auditorium on post street.
Best of luck!