Art
Mon
11
Jan
2010
Clipart - Instant Downloads available
by VyomaI have setup the shop with links (Buy Now) that allow you to download the clipart set as zip files as soon as you make the payment. You can make the payment either through debit/credit card or through PayPal.
Check the shop now!
Any suggestions on the kind or nature of clipart you may want to buy is most welcome.
Rantz's 10th Muse Colored
It had been quite some time since I had done any digital paintings or even sketches for that matter. But recently, I had stumbled across MyPaint that focuses on just creating digtial paintings.
I just wanted to try it out and hence I picked up a high resolution line art provided by rantz at deviantART who has got quite a unique style of drawing characters.
I created flats in GIMP (using the guide by rantz) and then went about painting it in MyPaint. It took a bit of time for me to get a hang of it, but here is the result of doodling in it for about two hours.
MyPaint is not a complete solution for your graphics needs. It will not be able to serve all of your workflow. But it is specifically designed to be a tool to emulate traditional media and that is what I believe is required for a digital painter.
Note that MyPaint is meant to be worked with a graphics tablet.
Sun
12
Jul
2009
Sorceress
by Vyoma
It had been a long time since I started working (or should I say reworking) on the Armem Enlom comics. Working on the comics, since it included a lot of fight scenes, I had to study a bit of human anatomy.
Just to check if I was getting any better at doing human anatomy, I picked up this unnamed sorceress from the same realm as Armem Enlom (which is Chaos And Order, by the way).
This is a "work in progress" snapshot of the artwork. I did go through a lot of images on the web, but I would like to make a nod to one of the artists I have been following at deviantART. In particular, her artwork, titled "Mekania" inspired the costume of this particular character.
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Wed
24
Jun
2009
BloomSpot - Logo Design And Illustration
by VyomaI just completed the latest illustration/design project for a client, BloomSpot.
Read more about it at services/portfolio page. The client is yet to take the site live. Hence it will be a while before this logo is actually used in the website.
Self Portrait - 2nd attempt
I used a photo my friend had taken a year back as reference. But I did change a lot of things in this second portrait, like the hair. I had it much longer than I have painted.
I even made a deviantID out of it for myself. :P
Tue
03
Mar
2009
Making of "Siblings"
by VyomaI am currently working on the third of the series of painting I have been doing. (The first two were King's Blacksmith and Forging).
It actually feels quite different, to go behind topics that are more playful and relaxed that the serious and dramatic ones I usually work on.
The mood seems to reflect back from the painting as I work on it, and sort of forms a feedback loop. :)
You can download the lineart from deviantART if you want to try coloring it. Please attribute back to the source if you choose to publish it.
To keep a close eye on the progress on this painting, watch the CGPainting.com thread - Siblings - I will be updating that regularly.
Forging
I am a craftsman - I am a blacksmith employed to the king of Giants. But at times, when I immerse myself in the heat from the heart of the mountains, I know nothing more than to create. Once they leave this cave, they may end up as instruments for violent means. But within these stone walls, they are my creations.
... one of the occasional journal entries of Derwog, the Giant King's court blacksmith.
I enjoyed doing this painting as a part of expanding and building on the Chaos And Order universe. I have an inkling that there will be more paintings on these characters in an attempt to build up their background and story.
King's Blacksmiths
A Giant blacksmith, sent by the king, on a quest to get to the bottom of odd happenings in a run down area of the city. His foster Human daughter is accompanying him.
A painting in the Chaos And Order setting/universe.
Wed
21
Jan
2009
deviantART Embed - Drupal Module
by VyomaThis is the second custom module, after Twitter Block, called the deviantART Embed module.
Unlike the last, this module creates another content type, which is similar to a Page or Story types except for another field called embed-id. This is the string of numbers at the end of the deviantART entry.
The module generates the embed code during display of a page. It also generates the required CSS class names so that it can be styled any way you want. For example, check out the first deviantART embed entry here.
Download: deviantART Embed
The module also gives a block that displays links to the latest published deviantART embed nodes. The number of links can be configured through Administer » Site configuration » deviantART module settings.
I have done some preliminary testing. If you find any bugs, do not hesitate to mention in the comments below.
Mon
24
Nov
2008
KalaaLog Tutorial Index Pages Updated
by VyomaTook some time to go through and update my tutorial index pages at KalaaLog.com.
Main tutorial index page has been updated to point to links to the tutorials I wrote at KalaaLog.com to this day. It contains all the general drawing, tool guides, digital painting and vector illustration tutorials.
Similar to the Dragon Workshop page, I created a new page called Peacock Workshop that contains links to all the related tutorials.
This is quite a time consuming work - but I hope it helps readers find what they need. There are now officially 200 posts at KalaaLog.com.
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