Indian Woman – Prints and Skins

Indian Woman Portrait Print

Prints! Skins! Good shit! The T-shirt! Go on! Click here! 

This is the final version of a little drawing from my sketch book.

I scanned in the line drawing, converted it to a vector shape in Illustrator and then imported it into Photoshop to colour it in.

I find working in Illustrator nearly impossible and extremely frustrating. I don’t understand why they can’t allow you to use the same tools and method as you do in Photoshop to create and edit vector shapes. Illustrator is so fucking non-intuitive.

I just use it for the bare minimum and then do the rest in Photoshop. I also got some textures from my favourite texture repository Lost and Taken just for good measure and used them for the background. They took a week of fiddling about, leaving it, looking at it later, then some more fiddling to get it right.

I’ve not been as prolific with my sketch book as I should be.

My rape rick drawing stalled after 2 weeks because that app project (which has been going on for over a year) finally reached its long overdue climax. Even though the client made various attempts to impede progress by changing their mind constantly. (Sigh. I can’t even bear to go into it.)

So my bosses said the other say that they wanted to have a chat with me.

“Uhm…is this a good chat or a bad chat?”

I felt dubious about this so-called ‘chat’.

“No no it’s a good chat, to discuss your work and stuff.”

“Oh good, as long as I’m not getting fired…”

They said they were very pleased that of all the people in the office I stay behind and work late and want to reward me so I keep it up etc etc.

I said since it wasn’t going to a bad chat we could have it when I come back from my holiday.

The ex said I was a dolt and I should have had the chat right then and there. The ex is constantly collaring the bosses to ‘chat’ about the ex’s inevitable world domination.

That’s all very well (working late and so on), but my illustration is being severely impeded by all this enthuness in the work department. I’ve been too tired when I come home to pick up the illustration slack even though I’ve populated my shop and have been doing stuff like this. (Digital illustration I mean)

Indian Woman iPhone Skin. I don't know how many people want flowery lotus breasts on the back of their phone. Should I remove them?

I’m rather pleased with myself for colouring this in digitally. All the shapes inside the woman are vectors, so she can be stretched to fit nearly any format.

I also wanted her to be printable on colour T-shirts (I don’t know how colour prints turn out on pre-coloured T’s). So there’s a black and white line version for the green, red, blue and yellow T-shirts.  I think I’m going to buy this or the red one.

Indian Woman Line T-Shirt

Indian Woman Unisex sweatshirt

Indian Woman Laptop Skin

Then I was so carried away I even created a landscape version for the Laptop skins. (Which I rather preferred in the end to the portrait so I made some prints of those too.) It it cuts the boobs in half so they don’t seem so…uh…booby.

I could probably change the letter in the circle. I dunno.

Indian Woman Landscape Print

Ooof so much effort! Reward me by promoting me, pretty please! 

Adam and Joe Update: Boggins Sketch

The Boggins Debacle sketch.

Hate Boggins. Kill the bastard.

Boggins Sketch Final

Finished and re-scanned the Bath time sketch. It’s handy to have a proper sketch scan incase you cock it up when you colour it in.

Also I might print it out and do a thick ‘colour in the lines style’ black outline version just for fun.

Adam & Joe Bath time Sketch Final

Adam And Joe Guide Update: Draft Cover

Been planning an update for the Idiothole’s Guide I made a year ago, ever since the show time changed from 9:30-12 to 10:00-1:00.

But I was in too deep with the Barbara Cartlands.

The grip of obsession is finally beginning to thaw a little enough to sketch out some pages and to plan the page updates.

I think a few new sections might pop-in.

Here is a rough sketch of the new cover.

Adam & Joe's bath time. Bowies Special Bubbles in a bottle on the far left.

The posters on the wall might not work on the cover because of the font and the logo.

So I might just use Adam and Joe in the tub cropped tighter.

Well.. lets see how it goes.

Originally I planned to have Bowie bathing in the tub as well.

But it didn’t work either, partly because Bowie looks like something out of the Universe and partly because I can’t suspend my belief to convince myself that 3 men can fit in a smallish tub.

I want Adam and Joe to be comfy. Good thing Adam is small.

I have a lot of drawings with bathtubs or bathing.

I do spend an inordinately long amount of time in the loo both at work and at home.

It’s a very peaceful place.

On the other hand I don’t like baths.

They are pretty darn boring and the water never stays hot enough.

I just don’t like the idea of stewing in my own filth.

The ex and I used to take baths and smoke one in the bath, but you know I think the loo is a place thats much nicer on your own.

Give me a nice super-shower any day.

Another One Day Project

I revert back to my former bad opinion of one day projects.

I decided since I rarely scribble or use colour, I’d give both a shot.

The brief was on Michael Jackson.

Passe, I know.

Quotes about MJ - "Razza Saleem said..."

Quotes about MJ - "He May Be Eccentric..."

Bad drawing of MJ. Baby in a bag came out ok.

 

 

 

Invasion – One Day Project

Invasion

Bird Flu

I hate day projects. I can’t commit short-term, it’s pretty frustrating producing shit work.

But I enjoyed yesterdays project even though I wouldn’t say I produced anything fascinating or brilliant.

Ah well.

Foz (the tutor), who is remarkably similar to Sir Alan Sugar, yelled at 3 people who were 5 minutes late.

One guy tried to explain why,

“Uhm well, uhm I had to go to the college shop, uhm, and then I forgot my bag, so I had to go back…”

to which Foz replies

“Well you FUCKED UP then didn’t you?? Don’t even bother coming in if your late next time!”

Arsonists Ball: Partially Finished

Arsonist Ball B/W. Click to view large

Sketchbook scrawl

Sketchbook scrawl of the steps

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Tirthal Rai is Getting Married

Why the hell is everyone getting married??

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

Sketch 3

Experiments with an idea called “Indians Love Blondes”

Zasha

Zasha is a girl who I spoke to everyday for nearly a month in St. Xaviers, Mumbai.

Everyday I’d ask her the same question.

“Zasha, can I have my drawing back? No? Then can you please get it tomorrow??”

No, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no , no, no, no

Oh yes here it is, sorry, I spilled coffee all over it…

Fucking bitch. Die.

I am no longer fond of this drawing. It’s not even a very good drawing. But that’s not the point.

She didn’t even apologize. Or she did but so half heartedly I wanted to smack her smug, doe-like face.

If you don’t get the point I’m not even going to bother explaining it.

This is a postcard Leo left behind in Oxford when he went to visit Zasha. The handwriting is Zasha’s in blue on the left and also her handwriting on the right in black. Split personality maybe?

For some reason she decided to post it to me since Leo forgot to, which would have been ok..
but she also decided to write on it pretending to be Leo (which must have been some amazing thespian work on her part)

Weird. It freaked me out a bit.

Ken Inspired

Ken Loves Godzilla, apparently.

Original fuddy-duddy, Tourist Indian Postcard

Godzilla Colour

Sketch

Painted on accidentally developed photo-paper with photo touch up paint