Kshiraj Telang

Last week, my biggest dream came true! Ever since I have learned about technology and how its tools facilitated digital illustration work, I have known Wacom. Over the past eight years I graduated from drawing using mouse to 'poor, non-wacom' stylus pen tablets to Wacom Graphire (which remained my beloved partner for long) and lastly Wacom Intuos. But it is 'Cintiq' I was always fascinated about, from the time I read its capabilities and features.

I used to read about its interactive pen display, precise pen and pressure sensitivity and Wacom's patented screen stand that could allow you to recline and rotate your digital canvas! Knowing these things not only made me drool over it but also insisted me to save every single buck I could, to let me make such an expensive (but worthwhile) deal someday (it costs $3500 in India).

My greatest dream has come true today when I own a Wacom Cintiq 21UX. It just beautifies my workspace and makes me pledge sleepless nights of work on it.

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Detailed product review to follow.

It’s not an easy thing to keep you distinctive from others in this artistic part of the world. Some people succeeds, some people not. Pixar animator Sanjay Patel has attempted a visual recreation of something that a lot of people had tried before, The Ramayana. And it turned out to be one of the most stylish depictions ever. The starkly graphics which gives a feel of ancient wall paintings is surely a mesmerizing treat for the eyes, a mix of ancient myth and mid century design.

It took him 1 year to complete the first round of research for this graphic novel. Within one year, the book Ramayana: Divine Loophole born.

A drop-out of Cleveland Institute of Arts & California Institute of Arts, he is been associated with Pixar Studios from the days of Bug’s Life. Degrees never matter if you have the real talent and specially a guy who started his drawing at the age of 4! (I am inspired!)

Here a tribute to this great artist who actually redefined the way of mythological storytelling.

A man who always wears a darker glass will have a tendency to see the world in front of him in a slightly darker shade. But the realization of the absorbed frames have never been a conundrum for the man who set a trend of mixing goth, gore and dark humor, sometimes in an interestingly creepy manner. And we call him Tim Burton.

His unmatched ability of giving adorability and cuteness to the living and non living darker elements is what sets him apart from the other directors. From Jack Skellington to Edward Scissorhands to the bloody big head-Red Queen, he has created his own aura of characters and leaving his fans craving for more.

Making alterations to a masterpiece needs some real gut and Tim again have shown his abundant vision and took the story to another level with some really sweet characters that only he can visualize. Who can forget the Red Queen and her playing card resembling army? Tim is also lucky to have such a wife in Helena who easily portrays any complex character and becomes ready to appear in the same skeleton that Tim had derived.

When it comes to the execution of the ideas, Tim Burton become crazier than you can ever think of. No one will forget the scene where The White Queen prepares the medicine with urine and some ugly looking fingers, for Alice.

Once again he has created a modern cinematic myth with his favorite cast and crew. He replaced the actual mood of the wonderland with his no sunshine environment and some signature props like the windmill and the famous limbs. He might probably be the only man in the earth whom god have given so much “dark” powers and yet doing good things.

Here's an artwork from me as a tribute to the work of a genius.