Journey Through Art

Sketch - The Eye

A sketchbook was gifted to me a long time back, but I never used it. Then it was re-gifted to me on my birthday with a full-page happy birthday art and an ultimatum to use it. So, I finally got around to it and made something, though its inspired from somewhere :)

Points to Improve upon : eyelashes, reflection in the eye, shadows
Medium : HB Pencil

Source : http://www.artmajeur.com/en/artist/guzenko/portfolio/artwork/twinkling-eyes/6235486

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Painting - Dream Catcher

Lack of paintings is mostly lack of inspiration to make one. This time sitting with someone painting a dream catcher made me do it myself. Though I could have put more thought into this and made the colour clouds more accurately, but how do I care :)

"Dream Catcher"

Medium : Water Colours, Black ball-point pen

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Logo Designing : TheaterFest 2012-13

TheatreFest. I have much love for this event, as I have iterated in my earlier post also. They held a competition to design a logo which they were missing for a long time now. I brainstormed on ideas during a class and came up with some sketches. I was too late in finalising and digitising any design and couldnt submit them as entries.

Following are 2 of the designs that I finalised.
Method : Photograph -> Photoshop -> Tracing via pen tool -> stroke paths by brush.

"TF"

The design tries to justify the meaning of a theater festival. I had some other variants of the design, which I will update a little later. Enjoy!

EDIT :

I forgot about the post altogether. But since I had promised other variants, I will honour it and post them, even if that means working more to finish them :P

I was really interested to create vector based designs. The simulated brush pressure and the stroke like a calligraphy pen is to die for. Plus you can very easily change the design later on.

This design somehow feels very young, joyous and has a flair. My personal favourite.

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Typhotography - Portrait

This is a month old photograph, was waiting to be edited.

When I took this up and applied some basic editing, the grey background in photoshop was looking so good with this that I put it in the image only. It starget to give a feel of classic clothing AD in a magazine/newspaper.

So I took that newspaper ad feeling forward and tried some more things, though not as good as this one.

Props : Garlands courtesy Mahesh weds Neeta (strangers), Hat courtesy Vikas Sharma/Vikrant Raj.

Picture clicked by : Either Pramod or Rahul or Vikrant

Camera : Nikon 3100, 50mm, f1.8, 1/125s, ISO1600

Software Used : Photoshop CS5

Tools : Basic, Curves

Font : Bender

Tshirt Painting - Fully Loaded

Rukhsat - A farewell to all the passing out seniors by the juniors of club.
Humein to bas ek bahana chahiye hota hai session karne ka. Saath mein mil baith ke painting karne ka. Tshirt belongs to pramod and was painted for him only.

(Back side pending)

"Fully Loaded"

Design : Vipul
Painting : Pramod, Shreni, Vipul
Medium : Acrylic colours
Tshirt Sponsor : Nimbuzz via MI :P

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Dry Pastels - Underwater

Tried the dry pastels as a medium for the first time. I really love how you can smooth out and create gradients post the application of colours on the paper.
Medium : Dry Pastels (almost like Chalk, only a little finer and smother)
Things to Notice : transparent/white jellyfishes, grey shark gradient.

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Typography - Chalk on Pavement

For a long time I wanted to create a vintage kind of typography. What better than do it on the roads in full view. There is something about creating the font with your hands in your own style that made whole of this process highly enjoyable.

Concept and Colour Scheme : Vikrant Raj

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Painting - Sounds of Solitude

Water colours is a medium that lets you blur out everything that is not in focus so well. I am amazed at times when the colours go around in the water and create soft gradients and smudges.

Solitude, something that i have started to enjoy.

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Paper Quilling

My first try at another form of art. Attended a workshop at Kaladarshan and found it pretty amusing. Its slow and easy and has limited things you can do unless you are willing to go completely off the track. Its kinda like knitting.

If you have a nifty hand and extreme amounts of free time you might wanna try this.

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Doodle - Miniature Scenarios

I have gotten back to my old hobby of doodling various scenarios on a miniature scale.
Just think of how much detailing you can do in such an artform.
Currently I am experimenting with 2D landscapes. Lets see how the project turns out. :)