Adding a charming touch to Guitar
By lending enchanting performances in his music concerts all around the globe, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt didn't just recieve usual fan following, but also got fusion artists like Harry Manx and Matt Malley utilize the Mohan Veena for their music. He's one of the greatest Indian musician on whom our country could back on for popularizing Indian Classical Music between the world audience. Here's a small tribute artwork for the legendary man.
The Visual Maverick, Sir Peter Jackson
Wolverine
I am a big fan of Wolverine. With his infused adamantium, healing capabilities and most importantly an 'attitude' driven personality, he steals the show from even higher class mutants with superior powers. For some reason I never liked his 'yellow spandex' costume version and have always preferred him as a rough lad in jeans and vest with a large cigar in his mouth. It is impossible for me to imagine an actor other than Hugh Jackman who can well live this character. My most memorable dialogue of his is from X-Men : The Last Stand, when he says "class dismissed" during a training program for newly recruited mutants. Too much character isn't it? Sherm Cohen
Today I am going to tell you about an artist who has become my inspiration not only due to his art, but because of lot more reasons. I got to know about Sherm Cohen a few months ago, after I found his twitter link somewhere and started following him. He is among the very few artists I have known who actually 'talk'! You can easily find hundreds of artists with one directional Feed streams posting their work and experiences. But Sherm has really defined what a 'conversation' mean. He sits somewhere in Los Angeles in the middle of numerous drawing jobs none less than SpongeBob SquarePants, Phineas & Ferb and more. Still he continues to stay in touch with a long list of fan-following not only by reading what they say, but also through response whenever possible. I have seen Sherm help many followers by answering to their curious questions coming from all parts of the planet. Dozens of videos could be found on YouTube with him sharing tips and tricks about character design and storyboarding that everyone will find useful. I am glad to know an artist like him who has been serving the animation industry in this unique way. (Lastly not to forget that this wizard of pencil has even written a book titled Cartooning : Character Design from Walter Foster Publishing, Inc.)
Follow Sherm on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ShermCohen
Cintiqized
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.
For more photos, visit http://picasaweb.google.com/kshiraj.telang/WorkplaceReloaded
Detailed product review to follow.
Budweiser Budvar | Drevny Kocur | Webisode 01
P.S.: The language is Polish, and I don't understand a word either, but somehow managed to animate based on script. Hope you'd like them. :)
