A quickie sketch while I was waiting for a render from my PC. Outlined & fine tuned on Photoshop.

Such a shame I only sketch while I find myself away from PC or Books. Have to check this bad habit.

Seeing this video, I can assume what Racing games I ll be playing in the very near future. Though I would love my virtual cars and wont bang them like that truck has been madly and purposely several times, but who knows. There is no charge for a single repair.

Btw that engine is a Cryengine. Always makes its assets shatter and cry.

ProntoCarBuyer project - Its not often for me when I get to work on something that is special in the terms of the subject or the topic in my freelance business. Now special never only means something of high budget or anything thats related to Hollywood or AAA game studio. Here special is just something I did for pure fun and I was getting paid for that…. with full amount of artistic license. Cars have been a special subject for me and making something creative out of it, is an icing on the cake.

So for the background, my client wanted a Car Mascot which was initially reckoned as a cartoon replica for Ford Focus (as its the one of the highest selling cars in Britain) vs Fiat 500 (another top selling car). But since it was looking more on the aggressive style which is supposed to be mostly targeted at the male audience, the USP was getting somehow lost. The website was intended for the ease for the females who will be getting uncomfortable finding the brilliant value for their old car. So after 2 retakes, the final version was conceived as a replica of a Japanese Car maker which was not only cute but small, charming and less aggressive to look at. The evolution is very much apparent in the images.

The Cars from Pixar was usually the main reference for me here but I tried to deviate from that since it could help a lot to define the uniqueness.

You can please visit for final picture - www.prontocarbuyer.com

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The Emperor of all Maladies -

While my pc was rendering some 3d artowrk, My fingers and mind was onto something else.

You draw what you read or grasp, and I am reading about Cancer nowadays … from the book - The Emperor of Maladies. No doubt, my mind is full with tumours, uncontrollable growth of cells, doctors, old surgeries and every tale of winning and losing. I loved this fact that so many doctors have done so much to learn about this sickness and tried to overcome from the beginning of the civilizations. And with every new technology and information around that period, the concept of the birth of Cancer was ever changing, so were the remedies and futile battles.

I still have to finish that book, so there might be more to come.

Well, its my version of the Emperor of Maladies, who lives in all of us, finding a host to uncover himself. Because if we dont die with anyother disease or incident, we eventually exit because of this disease, specially in this era where most of other illnesses like polio, stomach infections, TB etc are not as extreme, silent and fatal as cancer.

Nothing else made my day after seeing my own works in my own hand. How did I make that possible? I simply bought a new printer with a very complex decision with more complex options to choose from. Its simply so amazing to see your craft physically when you are tired of seeing that in the digital domain. Almost like a book in hand and an image in the monitor. The latter one can never do the justice. I wish I could get some Oil texture on my prints. :D

But I think i have to learn a lot about printing. The colours are not that accurate as I can see on my screen. But overall its been satisfactory.

Now, time to get them framed!

These buds and flowers are the result of nature’s metaphor - Take your time and stay adamant with your survival, because you will make someone happy someday!

This plant was once leafless… and now as I had taken care of this over months, it had provided me the great looking flowers. Me so happy! 

Something I was doodling when I tried my hands on SciFi. This is to check whether I can be a fashion designer when I ll be turning old and full of wrinkles, when people and aliens discovered, will be wearing too much of sci-fiction. :D

But finally I got the time to work on some personal stuff…. I was always thinking whether to start Witcher 2 or finish this work this weekend … I am glad I chose the latter one and disappoint the gamer community.

The character is based on Kara - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KTUysrwgQ

So you can say it really influenced me to work on something under my own perception. Or probably to re-conceptualize the same Kara girl.

I wish I could work on more details, but the weekend is about to over and I also think… I can wrap this up.

enter-the-floyd:

A paradox. After turning the machine on, its only function is to turn itself off.

a, parabox?

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Got this finally…… and its a great great artwork in terms of modern entertainment. I have been waiting to play this game since the time it was released and no way I ever thought it will be re-released as extended edition. Good that I have waited.

It includes -

3 DVDs - 2 for game installation and 1 Soundtracks. I will enjoy the soundtracks more after getting use to the game and its all gorgeous looking environments. I still love listening to Oblivion soundtracks and can recall those dark blue caves and saturated evergreen landscapes. The music impacts more when you relate any visuals to it.

Quest Guide - I dont know what to do with this, but surely I am not going to read before and after game. Some help when I ll be lost in the game and where to go would be appropriate, but cant be my bedtime story book.

Map Poster - Looks good but then I am not sure if I ll be getting it framed. I promise if the game made an awesome impact then I ll change my mind.

Game Manual - Firstly I thought Quest guide was good enough or sort of a manual only, but a Manual also? Do Polish love trees? Okay, I guess they love their customers so they dont want to send malnutrished game boxes like Half life 2 and some current games. For this as well, I dont know if I ll be going through it.

Now, since I am already busy with my projects and personal works, along with my chores and my passion for racing with my new wheel…. I am surely perplexed where this masterpiece will fit into my schedule. Well, currently I am planning to postpone this since I have to wrap up my projects and chores.

Hopefully I ll be able to play this very soon, and a promise - I ll keep on updating the beautiful looking screenshots from this game, so that I can relish after completing the game.

The beauty of details.. only you need to go close and observe. From far everything looks easy, sometimes a mix of colours and relatively comfortable to ignore and pass on. I never had any big camera or a will to buy and carry those SLR to capture that details, but I know what I am missing. I normally get the overall colour ideas and references with my smartphone camera and the rest of the details I leave it to my imagination and painting.  

And yes.. Mauve/Violet is my favourite colour.

Tried Outdoor sketching yesterday… wished the day would have never ended that fast. Hopefully I will try to sketch outdoor figures and nature, more in the coming weekends. I wasnt surprised to see many families coming out and having the day off with their kith and kins. Though not jam packed like its winters or spring, the amount of studies and subjects were various.

    Here in the sketch the mom is looking after here baby and the rest of the family had been wandering around the garden.

My another learning guide. James Gurney’s Color and Light.
I totally recommend this. :)

For more about the author and the artist - he has a blog site updated everyday and its full of information regarding illustrations, paintings, his own life, real life models, painting outdoors and probably everything related to art. This book has been recommended by many other great concept artists and Illustrators before, shame on me that I have got a hand on this now. Should have eaten during my early career. 

His blog - http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.in/

I havent read this completely but seeing the artworks from the old master artists and his own works (specially from Dinotopia) I think every detail is present to possibly observe and learn. He has shown examples of his own master works, so that he can tell us what he had been thinking while working on those.

I assume all the topics are fully covered from basics to specialized related colors and lights like Caustics, atmospheric effects in paintings etc.

Time for me to read and draw. Once again.. recommended to all artists.

Why I prefer Art and Science over political systems and religion - because they can show that earth is neither divided, never was flat and its boundary-less. Its full of colors, minerals and substances, all you need is a vision to see rather than hands folded and eyes closed. :)

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Every time I see the video, I can laugh at the end part of the this trailer. Its amazing to see how the creator has every emotions tied and expressed when someone is reviewing up his work or enjoying in this case. Kudos to these devs, we are getting some freshness among the crowd of CODs, NFSs, GOWs, POPs, ETCs. And I can understand the plight of being alone and working hard on something they have envisioned. :)

Few months back I had written a small blog about the kickstarter where you desire to work and your idea will be crowdsourced by anyone (the one single who can pay) or everyone interested, likeminded or your product’s diehard fan. It really struck me and I thought it’s the genuine idea of making something you love and really not scared of getting rejected by your publisher, producer, patron, pope, mafia or anyone you think can provide a helping hand in the financial terms. Its almost like you were living under the dictatorship or monarch rule and you got a fresh breath air of democracy where the President (your Product) is elected by your people and yes, your president must be portrayed as agile, helpful, thankful and rewarding in return to whoever votes for him. Ending an era of dynastic rule of eccentric persons who think their lame ideas are the best and will win any situation.

So this comes to the part where Kickstarter campaigns are seeing major indie developers and few game old and very experienced developers (Sorry but I am tracking in games and art mostly in this domain though I am sure there must be few more success and failed story) venturing in this area and getting a successful return and promise from their fans. Some aren’t that well also who, I am sure the best possible reason, aren’t able to portray their product’s characterization very well. Marketing is not everyone’s charm and not everyone prefers to boast or can make a good humour or satirical of their own game. Another big reason is teh history of the developers… the better they had deilievered, the more they can easily persuade, almost like any job interview.

Though I love to hear from them to what extent they can go to make me lure to use other’s credit card (cause I have none) and make them more than happy. I seriously love how they create the storyline, past about them or their product, and promise about the future. This makes me a query if the kickstarter projects are insured specially those in millions, because what if the studio comes down to the rubble in an earthquake? (Sorry for thinking like this but I am not being negative, but only trying to be realistic).

However, I believe there will be a growth to this, and better the product, the amount of people will fund it to get a taste of it, and to meet its creator if they can afford to.

Some of the best I am linking from my blog, starting with pioneer Indie developer in this crowdsourcing, Tim from Double fine who made the news everywhere–

Double fine Adventure - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure?ref=most-funded

WasteLand 2 - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2?ref=most-funded

ShadowRun - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

Leisure Suit Larry - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again

Some which are/arent doing fair enough -

Moebius - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005365109/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg?ref=category

Cross of the Dutchman - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251995184/cross-of-the-dutchman

Gubble 3d (My fav) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1479679929/gubble-3d-new-retro-maze-videogame-by-ex-atari-des

Hope I ll get to see your project successful someday. :)

PS. This one I found in comics section and was hilarious, downright simple, and making millions - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive?ref=most-funded

Thanks for the read.