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Here is a digital caricature of my ex-boss I made a few years ago. He is an avid book reader, kind of open minded, and above all, great to work with. This was my gift for his birthday and he couldn't stop laughing...

I have been a Star Wars fan ever since I was twelve. I fell in love with the Marvel Cinematic Universe the day I watched "Iron Man". My favourite bad guys from Star Wars are General Grievous and Darth Maul for their visual appeal. I wanted to see how Iron Man would be if he looked like Darth Maul, and here is what I could do with that thought -my tribute to both Star Wars and Iron Man. I call this Iron Maul !

How to create and develop characters in an environment I was working on a project which needed me to create character interactions in an environment. It was about a family of rabbits. Mrs. Rabbit was tired of Mr. Rabbit always asking her to cook carrots. This picture was meant to show Mrs. Rabbit's helpless condition when Mr. Rabbit carries home a fresh box of carrots. Mrs. Rabbit does not want to eat anymore carrots. For this, I first created a rough sketch of a house, and the rabbits. Mr. Rabbit is trying to avoid an awkward conversation with Mrs. Rabbit. I included a box of carrots in the foreground. The kitchen has some utensils, an old fashioned oven, some firewood and a sink. Poor bunnies have a small house, so the kitchen also has a couple of chairs. I usually write notes in a different layer while drawing the rough sketch, so if you find some notes, please ignore. When I was fairly satisfied with what I had drawn, I made a line art layer on top to make the...

This is a basic character study. Wanted to explore some ideas... Just to say this one more time, India is a place with a lot of diversity, and this one is a mere reflection of that! Creating doodles with Wacom is fun!!! Tools used: Wacom Medium One and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

This is another version of the bunny (Mr. Rabbit in one of the previous posts). In this version he has a pair of binoculars. May be he is trying to spy on somebody!!! I am going to share the whole process starting with creating a line art (we do this after drawing a lot of rough lines), adding colours, shades and highlights. Here is how that goes...

Windmills and a house is a rough sketch I made for an old project. I wanted to show a simple house with a windmill from a European countryside. For this sketch, I used multiple references, and the outcome was somewhat satisfactory.  I started with drawing a rough sketch, and I developed it bit by bit. At first, it was just some lines. some made sense, and some didn't. The rough sketch looked more or less like what I had in mind. Now, I needed to draw a line art layer on top of this one, refine some lines and add some more details. I wanted to add some texture to the line art, so I added some fine lines to mimic a wooden texture for the roof tiles. I then wanted to make the windmill standout, so I created a layer on top of this layer to add some patterns to it. If you want to add more details to this one, go ahead and do so and if you could, please share a link of your version in the comments section below. Happy sketching! Tools used: Wacom...

Drawing in perspective (Image courtesy:  https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/571323902726615393/ ) Here is a seemingly simple task. Draw a chair. How hard could it be? A chair is not too difficult to draw, and if you are a beginner like me, you would probably want to follow some simple steps. You might want to draw this chair in perspective to make it look realistic. So, let's start with drawing some reference lines and vanishing points. This way, it may become a lot easier to get all the proportions of the chair right. Please know that it may not be easy to understand and draw these perspective lines the first time you try, and may be, we can deal with just the perspective lines and how to draw them in another post. (Vanishing point on the left is not visible because I had to blow up the picture to show the rough sketch) If you are a beginner, you are probably going to create a shabby looking perspectives + rough outline of the chair we looked at in the first...