Dragon Tales

The Dragon here is my version of an illustration by Mou-sien Tseng accompanying a Chinese folktale called "The Living Kuan-yin" published in the Childcraft series of books.If you like the dragon you will certainly like the story which was originally published in the book "Sweet and Sour:Tales from China" by Carol Kendall and Yao-Wen Li.Its quite a facsinating story and is worth a read.

Pretty Woman

Art in Action!

The above toon is my version of a toon from the book "Draw great Manga" by Elvin and Felder.The toon below is an original art-work...I tried to create a woman from another galaxy...I call her Astri.I think its a good idea to paint Aliens and action toons in dual shades of the same family of color....It gives a serious and stylish quality to the character.More-over it becomes easier to experiment in highlights and shadows in the dual color mode......I am still in the 2-dimensional toon mode...will switch to shadows and highlights soon!

New Cartoons!

Squash Doggy exercises

I tried a few stretch and squash exercises on dog heads from the ASIFA archives that i had written about earlier.The ASIFA cartooning exercises are certainly worth a try for all budding cartoonists.

Hey Arnold!

I found this Unfinished comic strip that i had drawn long,long,long,long....ago.Its a comic-strip adaptation of one of my favourite cartoon series "Hey Arnold!" on Nickelodeon.I am thinking about re-starting this series....let me know if you think i should.

The Golden haired girl

Animation

I created this piece of animation last year using pivot stick-figure animation software.You will have to click on the picture to view it....its a very simple scene...i hope you like it.Do let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.

No Name Yet!

Cheryl

Shes my new and original toon "Cheryl".I tried working on her model sheet.It looks nothing like the model sheets from the ASIFA archive or the sheets from a book by Elvin and Felder called "Draw great manga" that i have been refering a lot lately.

Color me up!

I colored up my earlier post just for fun.

Digital coloring!

Digital coloring is so much fun and easier.I tried my hand at coloring this picture entirely using Corel photopaint.

Faces

I picked up some wonderful face drawing tips from this site called ASIFA-Hollywood animation archive( www.animationarchive.org ) .I tried practising some of them...the above pictures are my renditions of the faces from Nat Falk's "How to animate".I tried some animal faces as well.My references for the drawings below: "Preston Blair's Animation 1st Edition Part Two",from the same site.

Jump!!!

I call her Dolly.She is bubbly and reminds me of my cousin by the same name.

Frilly attire