The ant

 

Life has been very hectic through the last one month.. No time to pause and think..Work is driving me crazy..I had been working like an ant  ..Haven't done any artwork in a long time.. This weekend I decided I should model something..Here it is.. an ant !

The Suzanne memorial

 

Tried my hand at texture painting today.. This feature seems to be very promising..

Cycles test render

 

Work has been so hectic during the last one month that I found time just to relax,after coming home..Haven't done any art work ( That makes me feel guilty )..Anyways did some test render using Cycles..

As the apple weeps

 

This art was inspired by the sudden demise of Steve Jobs..He is one of those great personalities whom I always admire.. I am always inspired when I listen to his Stanford University Graduation commencement speech..Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

The boot

Here is a WIP of a boot model that I have been working on for a long time..Hope to move on to texturing soon.. Gonna give it a worn out look..

Pencil Jammers

During the last two weekends, I have been doing outdoor sketching along with other art enthusiasts as a part of Pencil Jammers, an online art community.. We met at shilparamam, HITEC city, hyderabad.. Capturing reality as strokes and splashes of colors was a nice experience..

Watercolor and acrylic

Paintings I did two weeks back..The above one was done using acrylic glazed using watercolor..The bottom one is watercolor on handmade paper..I love the texture.. I'm so bad at painting..I gotta go a long way in perfecting my strokes..

 

 

 

 

Ms.Milly

 

Meet Ms.Milly, the charming millipede.. Truth be told, I have an aversion for these creepy crawly insects..

Out in the rain

 

It's raining here in hyderabad :) I got drenched in the rain couple of times.. This idea came to my mind on one such occasion..

Frozen time - 'completed'

 

Finally, I am done with this render..For once I have completed a work that i started :)  I have always loved antiques..Making one was really exciting..

Frozen time

 

First attempt at texturing.. Had a hard time doing the glass.. I am unable to figure out a way to get the shadow cast on the dial..Still working on this..

Johnny's new friend

 

Johnny's math teacher beat him badly yesterday..Look whom he is taking to school today !

Coffee cup

 

This is the very first model i created using blender.. It's been waiting for months to be rendered..Unfortunately it's still a WIP.. I need to do a lot of texturing and adjust the lighting as well..Everything from modelling to compositing was done using Blender..

Venice

 

Completed a digital painting after a very long time.. Used a reference to paint this..Venice is a lovely place to be..Its on my places-to-visit-before-i-die list...

Open source sculpting

 

 Trying my hand at sculpting using Blender..The sculpting system is not very stable..It is still under development but it sure is pretty good and I believe it will match up to other commercial packages in the market, in the near future..

Avril Lavigne

 

It's been a long weekend..I've been trying my hand at lot of stuff but not got anything finished yet..So I thought I should try some comic work.. Here is a caricature of Avril Lavigne :) i love her hair ;P

The Volcano

 

Finally I could do one concept :) I have made it in a very painterly style..That's how i like it..

Comic Concepts

Lately I've been trying concept art, inspired by the great Feng Zhu...Every day I start with a Sci-fi concept and end up creating one of these characters :P

Bullbot

 

These days I am on a bot-ifying spree, making an autobot out of everything I come across..Today a bull jumped in front of me as I was crossing the road and tonight he's a Bullbot !

Dinobot concept

 

 I am back to my blog with an art work after a very long time..

Abandoned

Found this auto rickshaw on the way home..Clicked it for a photography challenge on the theme 'Abandoned'..

Featured !

I am excited. My article on Blender has been published in issue #33 of Blenderart magazine.. Thanks to Satish Goda, who encouraged me to write this article and also helped me take the first baby steps in learning Blender.. This article got published just when I lost touch with this software.. Now I have got some motivation to get back to it and do more renders :) My render has also got featured in the gallery .. To read the complete magazine visit : http://blenderart.org/issues/

The Awakening

 

I happened to watch Batman Begins last week..I was inspired by this scene where Bruce Wayne walks into a cave inhabited by bats..He stands up amidst a large colony of bats undaunted by what he once feared.. Very much how we need to stand up against our fears and overcome them ..

Furball

I'm home after 3 months and I have the luxury of 4GB of RAM on my Desktop PC .. Time for some renders.. Here is a fur test..This is my pet, furball rendered using Blender's fur system...

The audioMaster

 

After a lot of struggle, here is my first complete CG render.. Modelled, textured and composited in Blender.. This took me around one week to complete.. About half an hour to render.. I wanted to keep it a complete open source work..But i was tempted to use Photoshop to do a little bit of color correction.. Below is a wireframe of the same..The camera angle has changed a bit..

Headphones

 

I broke my headphones last week.. I imagined modeling one in Blender and at the push of a button having it in my hand :)

Numaish 2011

 

I had been to Numaish, an annual industrial exhibition held here in Hyderabad..It was fun hanging out with my friends Aditya and Siva.. The best part was after the sunset.. Seeing all the fun rides decorated with beautiful lights was a feast to the eyes..Click here to view few clicks from the event >> Numaish 2011

Weekend CG exploration

  

I've been too lazy during the last two weeks.. I haven't completed a painting I've been working on..Anyways here are two Blender renders.. Made the chain just to try out DOF using Z-depth.. Didn't like the chain so much.. As for the cup I have kind of got the lighting I had in my mind..Still not very pleased.. Have to start texturing it as well ...

1000 hits !!

Yahoo ! 1000 hits on my blog since I started this during October last year..My sincere thanks to all those who have been visiting the blog quite regularly and giving me their feedback..

First Blender render

 

Yipee..This is my first Blender render..I've no plans of detailing it any further..But I would like to texture and light it better .. I'd been busy learning Blender during the last two weeks.. Hence no painting updates..

Featured

My sketch of the Charminar has been featured on the cover page of 'Common voices' newsletter released by the Foundation of Ecological security (FES).. The editor of the newsletter was searching for a picture symbolic of Hyderabad and she hit upon my blog :) I'm really elated to have my sketch on the cover page..

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Tom Hanks

 

Digital painting of a wonderful actor..Spent 8-10 hours on this work.. Painting in B&W was a good experience..I have a folder with portraits of many hollywood celebrities..Would like to paint them all..Check out this space next week :)

Taylor Swift - Portrait

Attempted a portrait of Taylor Swift..I had earlier tried a sketch too..  Hope I have got better.. Just a portrait and light study..I haven't detailed it much..The WIP is given below...

A walk to remember

 

I started working on this painting last week..Couldn't complete it as work in the studio was hectic.. I also started another painting.. Feeling bored working on this again.. So i thought i'll blog it.. I'll come back to this again sometime later..I see lot of work can be done on this...As Da Vinci rightly said, "Art is never finished,only abandoned" :) 

Wings of imagination..

Soar on the wings of imagination..Take flight into a world of your own.. 

Fractals !

This is my first fractal work :) Not so proud about it..Just started learning.. It looked really beautiful..Psychedelic !..Thought i should upload it.. Rendered using Apophysis... 

Fb profile pic

This is my new profile pic on FB...Do you see anything more than just the face and my middle name ? Look beyond what you can see :)

The poor lad

This painting was inspired by an experience I had last week when i went out for dinner at a roadside eatery..I have been seeing little children begging in the vicinity..But that day I was very much moved to see this little guy, famished,shabbily dressed and face distraught in frustration.. He was begging through the crowd..No one paid heed to him as they were busy enjoying the third meal of the day.. No sooner I saw him with a plate and some food which he apparently picked up from the left overs.. He even stole food from a plate someone left unaware..It was a pathetic sight..For him it was just another day but it touched me so much..And so I decided to paint him..