Another daily sketch topic "The Singer"....so a wolf singing for the moon...55mins in photoshop no reference used.

So my five minutes of fame.....Worked on "The Golden Compass" the film won an oscar for visual effects.Our vfx supervisor on the film.....Bill Westenhofer was kind enough to bring the statue all the way down to hyderabad so that we could share this amazing achievement.....
here is me...posing with an OSCAR!!!!

Done for the cgtalk daily sketch forum topic "look up" 30 minutes photoshop.no reference used.
thanks

Levitation:Done for the sketch forum setup by colleagues..... photoshop...no reference used.

Done for the cgtalk challenge on painting hands..reference from artrenewal.org....2.5 hours in photoshop.

My painting guru Vinayak suggested I try painting from life.So attempted this.Done in around 4-5 hours.Photoshop all one layer. Thanks to Rekha for helping me with setting up the still life

The Mermaid







Another chalk sculpture.A mermaid.It took me ages to carve the scales on her as the whole thing is made out of a single piece of chalk so the scales are really tiny. As always thanks to my chalk guru who introduced me to this wonderful world of mini sculptures.

More chalk sculpting fun...!

Done in photoshop using photo reference....

Done from a single piece of chalk.I have been learning chalk carving from a colleague at work.
Im still new at this so the piece broke in two while I was still working on it.Stuck it together this time....but im hoping to practice more so that the next one remains undamaged.
Thanks Vinny! Guruji ki jai ho!

Just finishing up on the last assignment for the cgtalk workshop.Matte Painting.Used a 3d render out of maya with a few lights as a base.Had done projections of textures on the geometry to have a starting point.Painted on top to get variations and worn out old feel.

Ive lately become fascinated by the art of touchup on photos.The fine balance between the desirable and undesirable textures on skin.... and how its all done.
The source photo on the left was taken from :
http://www.les-films.fr/Academy-Awards-Les-photos-des,469.html?id_document=2586#documents_portfolio

Done for the daily sketch forum topic "animal in motion" 45 minutes.reference used

Done for the daily sketch forum.Topic was "Evil Lair" . I wanted to show an evil devotee of Goddess Kali making a human sacrifice on the full moon for some magical powers in his evil lair.The lair is ominously dark and the bound and gagged sacrifice is placed inside a crescent to emphasize the darker mystical undertones.I have used absolutely NO reference for anything so proportions of the people are not too accurate.Need to practice much much much more.The time limit was 55 minutes for this challenge but I took 2 hours :( still a long way to go with speed....

Hello people I know I havnt posted in a looong time..but I promise I will hv more frequent posts now.... Im taking sculpting classes from a very talented sculptor and this is something I made in my class. Its just so much fun to do something with clay after painting on the computer for so long. I did some drawings of my own feet to prepare for this.The reference used for this was a cast of the foot of Michelangelo's David. I will upload pics of the reference model and my foot drawings soon. Big thanks to my teacher ...... Swapnil u rock!

Posting WIP...trying out a master copy of a painting by William Bouguereau Au Bord du Ruisseau [At the Edge of the Brook] . A friend of mine at work had suggested I should try painting in monochrome and try to get the same feel as would come in color....so following his advice and starting on this project.Its a highly detailed painting dont know how much I will be able to reproduce ...but I will try my best....
Dont get time to paint much so this might take a while to finish! Source painting by artrenewal.org

Worked on the composition a bit.... added rain.....
thanks Nikhil

Done for the cgtalk daily sketch forum...topic was "The Stalker"

Added a little more texture to the snow to make the image more interesting

for the daily talk forum....topic was "snowed in"..... done in the time limit of 55 minutes.... its difficult for me still to imagine a scene and paint it from memory without references...but im trying....