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!

A lovely quote that i came across .. had to do something around it.. just express !
SAY SOMETHING !!

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

Reflections ....

Hi there... A quick felt tip line drawing later worked with washes.. just another one to reflect a dreamy , moody feeling somewhere in my mind ... and what else but a few lines from PFloyd to support that .. 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

A happy accident !

Hi all just took a crop of my earlier post & was playing around with layers & modes in PS.
Its often debated where to draw a line of not letting the SW rule your design & eventually your mind , its fun to just try & play around with the blending modes & textures.
If you are using a SW better use to its strength ! people use CTRL+ Z all the time right!! might as well use all things in there to get the result!
So I did some watercolor washes on a rough handmade sheet & used them with diff color saturation & modes to get some interesting effects which bring them very close to a manual work. Some times there are happy accident results!
What is imp is to do things tastefully to get a desired & good result by patiently working with it ..
As I've read somewhere ..
'I think its never what you have that matters (PS or painter in this case) but what you do with what you have'