March-May 09

Here are some random pieces from the ones i did during the last couple of months. Do check out my DA gallery http://kish-m.deviantart.com/. I'm more regular there.
Volaire
Her last flight

Punisher Tracy
Dick Tracy meets Punisher :) .. Just a random combo i had in mind for a while..

Calm before he storm
This is what playing the opening track of Samurai Champloo does to your morning warmup session...and yeah, where i live, crow is the first bird you hear in the morning

My big teddy
This one is a collab with Rosh..he did the sketch and i did the coloring

Kuta

This is my submission for the kuta card contest being conducted by the great artist 'cheeks' on Deviantart

First Glimpse

Took a break from penciling today and did this pin up for promotional purpose of our graphic novel. The theme, as I had mentioned earlier is urban fantasy with a hint of noir. But its too early to reveal anything about the story. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed about our final product. Hopefully, it will be completed by June. Will be doing more pinups in the mean time :) . Thank you all for all your encouragement and support. Hope I live up to the expectations

Ahoy 2K9!!

Dearest friends, watchers, visitors, and fellow artists... As you might have noticed, the posts to my Blog have been irregular of late and i know i owe you all an explanation. I have started working full-on on my Graphic novel "The Hatchet" (the name is gonna change, but lets just call it that for the time being coz i dont want to give away anything about the plot yet ;)). Penciling the panels takes up most of my time everyday. But I'll make it a point to do a few pin-ups during my free time now n then, which i will be updating in my gallery on DA. The link is http://kish-m.deviantart.com/
I have structured the script of the graphic novel as a trilogy. Hopefully we'll publish the first volume this year. The genre is urban-fantasy/thriller with a hint of noir and the storyline is something very fresh. Cant reveal anything more about it at the moment. I am quite satisfied with the progress iv made so far and i hope i wont be disappointing any of you when the final product comes out. For a while i was stuck in a deadlock since i had no idea how long its gonna take once i'm done penciling, inking, coloring, and letter the novel all by myself... Quite unrealistic, I realize...So iv been trying to figure out a style that would go without colors. But i didn't want my graphic novel to look like anything that is already out there in the market (I know that is quite too much to ask for this early in my career as a graphic novelist).. Thanks to my talented friend Sinu, life has become simpler again. He has expressed his willingness to be part of the process and has agreed to do the inking and coloring of my pages, which is quite something considering his tight schedule. Let me also express my heartfelt gratitude to my dearest buddy Rosh and my better-half Merryn ... without their support and encouragement, i would never have been brave enough to set out on this journey

Fanart spree :)

Tyler Durden

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”…. Here’s to my all time fav movie.. Fight club!!.. this started off as a speed-painting poster..wanted to try out the smudge-style coloring..but as can always be expected of me, got carried away n ended up spending a couple of hours or more on it . PS and a bit of coral painter

Thug: Get outta my way, chinaman!
Stevan Segal: Dont call me chinaman
Thug: Wotcha gonna do if i call u chinaman, CHINAMAN?
POW!.... CRACK!...BAM!..
Took a break while doing a piece n ended up watching few of those MAD tv spoofs on Stevan segal flicks...and in turn ended up doing this one. Tried picturing Stevey playing my character "the vagabond"

Now here is one dude you should be careful enough not to piss off...SSSsuperman!! ...penciled and inked traditionally, colored digitally.

Finally got to watch Hellboy 2: The golden Army. I'v been experimenting with different styles to find out an optimum style for doing a completely noir comic. This one is ..i’d say 94% traditional... The only “digital intervention” is the pattern and a bit of contrast correction. The rest of it is plain ol’ ink and brushes. Had fun making those splotches using a tooth brush and Rotoring ink :D

Totally tripped on this one while listening to Staind!! The sketch was made by my buddy Rosh, and the coloring was done by me

Always wanted to do my version of the black spidey..was just experimenting with a new style today..lemme know what u think

Merc with a mouth

My favorite Marvel antihero – the one n only Deadpool!!

Blond..James Blond


I'll Be BACK


Call of the wild...

I llove wolverine for all his vulnerability

Super WHO..???

And before winding it all up, my tribute to all the aging superheros, including my grandpa ...

Comic page submissions

My submission for a comic colorist hunt for the comic called "Tiempo que perder" ("Time to waste") written by Javier Malonda..

Urban Yogi - Page 1

Thought id as well start off with my online comic right away.. I'm using a comparatively simpler, relatively less time-consuming, non-smooth style for this one as it has to go on along with my main graphic novel. So here is your first glimpse of Zid, the rock-star turned urban yogi turned…hey wait!!!..thtz saying it all out a lil too soon… :).. Will be uploading a few pages here till the website is launched, and then you can continue reading directly from my comic site.

The Sailor's bride

“…And she stood there on the cliff day after day till her last, clad in her wedding gown and scanning the horizon for the sail of her sailor’s ship” – last line from my Granma’s bedtime story
Base sketch – paper and pencil
Inking and coloring - Photoshop 7
4+ hrs :)

PS: I will be uploading some of my rough works n doodles in the scrap section of DA..if you guys wanna check out, here is the link ..
http://kish-m.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse/scraps

Bobbie and I

Today I had a trip down La Rue Nostalgia… When I was a lil kid I used to frequent this hill that my dad had inherited, and my frequent companion during these trips was Bobbie, my Granpa’s Daschunt. Bobbie was a whole 7 months elder to me and was more like a protective elder sister to me. We used to spend hours together watching birds.. Ye, u heard right.. Bobbie used to love watching em as much as I did..coz everytime a swallow flew by, her head would follow it..Gone is our lil hill now and so is She. Dad had to sell off the hill to raise money to purchase some plot in the city (DARN!!) and They sent Bobbie to “the happy farm” when I was about 10 yrs old. But the memories still live. So today’s piece of art is dedicated to Both my childhood and my very first friend… Bobbie, I still love you and I will always do

Hello Ladybug!

Thought I’d take a couple o hours’ break frm sketching noir and gore and go completely off-beat with this quickie. I dedicate this one to the lil girl whose gallery I came across in DA I tried to imagine what her childhood wouldda been like a few years back.. running around with her camera taking photographs of lil creatures and places..tried to imagine the inquisitiveness in her eyes with which she had been exploring the world around her..and voila!! .. had a lot o fun making this one!

BLAM!

Thought i'd post a random panel from my graphic novel today. Btw, the green dude is a clone. Thtz why he doesnt have a navel. A cloning project gone terribly wrong. Nope, dont worry..its not the regular zombie bashing story. Thatz all for now....do lemme know what u think :)

Andrew "The Hatchet" Ramon

Time to let you guys catch a glimpse of one of the main protagonists of my Neo-Noir graphic novel. Ladies and gentlemen….Presentng… Andrew “The Hatchet” Ramon. He isn’t much of the conventional good guy. That’s all I can reveal about the plot at the moment. But as you can see from the looks of it, I wouldn’t mind If they let Jason Statham, or someone along those lines, play the part if (and a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge IF at that) we end up making a movie out of it someday…

Hell sweet hell!

Finally watched the Hellboy movie. Nope not the second.. the first one.. Yeah, its shameful, but true..I hadn’t watched it all these years. But now that the mission has been accomplished, I decided to warm up today by sketching my very own version of Hellboy… and guess wot??...I ended up spending a good 3.5 hours on it!!! Had to try my new Rotoring Isograph 0.3 pen on this one..and it turned out satisfactory. Still haven’t started reading Mike Mignola’s graphic novels though :( … I know I know…sounds like I’m living under a rock here…but I sure have seen many of his artwork.. Ive also been inspired by Reuben Martinez version of the red dude! just u wait!!..I’l be getting ma hands on the graphic novels in a day or two!! Down here is the inked version of him