Wild west explorations...

Here are some of the sketches that I did for the concept I am working on for Wild West challenge on Artstaion.

More studies...

Doing some color studies before work as warm up

Sketching...

Just a mindless sketch from my sketchbook... :)

Trying different approach ...

More virtual plein air studies... 

This time I was trying to do these studies using basic round brush in photoshop without pressure sensitivity and with 100% opacity. It forces you to choose right color and helps to understand color relationships. This exercise is also helpful to understand how to simplify what you see to simple shapes.

Virtual Plein air studies...

More studies done using mapcrunch for reference 

Somewhere in Bhutan

A quick virtual plein air study for this weekend.

Random frames...

Today's theme was 'tanks' and  I decided to play around with some random frames this time :)

More studies...

A few more composition studies using just 2 values. Theme for these was 'chair'. It was a challenge to make a simple chair interesting using just two values. I'm still struggling to make a clear statement and a sense of mood through these studies. I'm doing these studies as a warm up with my very talented friend Ankush Cholia. Check him out :) 

   

A quiet evening...

2 value studies...

Here are some two value composition studies from imagination... :)

Juice on wheels...

I started this one as a warm up and went a little bit farther to clean it up. I have been studying art work of the amazing Carter Goodrich these days and took one of his character design as a shape inspiration for this one. I definitely changed the basic shapes according to my requirement as I went even farther. I find this exercise really helpful to understand why these designs by great artists are so successful as long as we don't exactly what they have done but get to the essence of their design. Let me know what you think about it :)

   

Sketching on the way to Delhi...

Execution...

Wanted to tryout Mayan architecture so I used one of the topics from our daily art challenge in office as an excuse and came up with this one.

Initial sketch

Happy new year...

Here are some 2 value composition studies to end an amazing year of 2017.  Looking forward to learn and improve a lot in upcoming year.

Candle Monster...

Another one based on a theme from daily art challenge in our office :) 

Feeling hungry?

Sketch I did for one of the themes in our office daily sketch challenge  :) 

tea time sketch...

A study in Red...

I wanted to experiment with just one color and came up with this painting. It was really an interesting exercise as it gets very difficult to create different color temperatures while painting with different tones of just one color. Will be doing a few more studies like this :)

    

Kitchen interior...

Another kitchen interior sketch for today.

Interior sketches...

Need to get back on track after a long break due to sickness. So here are some indoor sketches to get started  :)