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Bender vs Data

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2011/01/12 - 12:59am

ghost doll
One last twitter originated sketch for now. This was also drawn weeks ago, and in less than half an hour (which pleased me no end) for fellow Futurama & Star Trek fan @aalgar, who co-hosts the excellent Sarcastic Voyage and Post Atomic Horror podcasts (more on both in a future post).

See the full post for a couple of details, and click here for a large version of the image

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Ashwin Pande's Boobs

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2011/01/11 - 11:47pm

Another twitter sketch request! This is something I did a few weeks ago, for @ashwinpande (who always requests "BOOBS!" so...). Coloured it up in the Gimp. Since it does feature naughty naughty breasts, am keeping the full image behind a more link, so as not to, um, corrupt people? Hell, I don't know -- if you're here you're probably corrupt anyway.

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Sunday Night Sketch-a-thon

Submitted by Vishal on Mon, 2011/01/10 - 1:07pm

sketch-a-thon
Last night on my twitter I sent out a tweet asking people to suggest things for me to sketch. I've been thinking of doing this for a while, so with the New Year as an excuse and no motivation to do, um, real work, I thought I might as well get my rusty drawings hands a bit of a work out. I got six suggestions, and though it took me until 2 am I got them all done. Here they are, in the order I was asked, and the order I drew them.

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Doodling Owls

Submitted by Vishal on Mon, 2010/11/29 - 1:52am

pen sketch of an owl's head

That title just sounds wrong. Using a very loose pen sketch technique which basically involves keeping a fineliner pinned to the paper and not picking it up until the sketch is more or less done, then doing similarly rough blacks with a big marker.

Purpose? To loosen up the hand, actually (and much needed with how little drawing I've been doing).

pen sketch of an owl

This one actually not the second sketch I did on the page, but the third. For some reason the second sketch is always crap. :|

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My Favourite Word

Submitted by Vishal on Sun, 2010/11/28 - 2:02pm

my favourite word infographic venn diagram

Mr. Savant Tries to Smile a Bit, and Searches For a Missing Lunch Ingredient

Submitted by Vishal on Fri, 2010/04/16 - 4:03am

Mr Savant Tries to Smile a Bit - Gimp colored

More catching up! I drew this on paper last September, on an A4 sheet using a light blue marker for the sketch, and then various black pens to lay down inks. The good thing about this method is that you can then scan the piece in grayscale mode and any amount of rough sketch lines magically disappear! (You can see this in the sketch version below)

Colored in the Gimp, of course, using a woefully-neglected graphics tablet. Actually there was a fourth figure in this, but it was so horribly drawn (a last minute add to fill up the page) that I decided to erase her from the colored version. This is what the original page looked like:

Mr Savant Tries to Smile a Bit - Sketch

Another image I'd done early in the year also features our lovable interdimensional tourist, and involved food, of a sort. I just realised I hadn't posted it here on the site:

Savant Chicken Monster

I should really be drawing a whole lot more.

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Watchmen Doodles

Submitted by Vishal on Tue, 2009/06/09 - 11:23pm

A couple of Watchmen doodles I did the other day. My megaproject to redraw the entire Watchmen graphic novel has stalled. I could blame everything from the economic crisis to the crisis of not being able to draw well, but really it was the good old Crisis of Infinite Procrastination. I will get back to it but I need to think about a better, faster way to tackle it. As it was going I was obsessing about it too much and not enjoying myself. No sense doing something entirely non-commercial, that will never see public viewing, and not have any fun doing it, right?

So, a couple of fun doodles, quickly coloured (but since this is me, it took the better part of a day to color these in).

BTW, you can click on the Class of 1985 pic, or indeed right here for a 1600x1000 wallpaper version.

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5 Men, a Horse & a Flautist

Submitted by Vishal on Mon, 2009/04/13 - 1:42am

Daily Sketch Page for 13 April 2009, featuring 5 men, a horse & a flautist. Drawn with blue mechanical pencil on A4 copy paper
It's been a while since I sketched, both in real life and certainly on this site. I'd like to change that, and whenever I finish a page -- I'd like to do one every day or so -- I'll post it here.

Redrawing Watchmen

Submitted by Vishal on Wed, 2009/01/14 - 11:45pm

A TPB of Watchmen next sitting on a page drawn by me
Every New Year since I was 12 I think to myself, "You should really learn to draw." And at the end of every year I find that I have drawn less than the previous year. My problem is twofold: while I have ample access to teaching material on drawing and have dipped in and out of it frequently, I have never developed a knack for daily practice. Secondly, when I do practice I try to draw everything I imagine I would like to draw, and within a few minutes a lack of experience and skill leads me to be frustrated with the terrible doodles on the page which look nothing like the grand illustrations I imagine.

So this year I thought I'd just try to redraw the greatest graphic novel of our times: Watchmen.