Sketches from Portrait Sessions

My colleague Valentin, introduced me to this weekly potrait sessions at  a cafe in Berlin.

Its a wonderful atmosphere there, with lovely bunch of  people who drop in at 11 am every Sunday and we all write our names on small pieces of paper and someone picks a first name and they pose for 10 mins, after that they get to choose the next one. Fun session in general. I am terrible at portraits and I realised I can manage side views, but I really have to work on drawing faces  in various  angles. 

Here are some better ones from the sessions so far, I rather not show the abominations I did. 

I just dont want to run anymore

yes, its freaking cold outside and my fingers are the first to get frozen. But also I like to run. what to do !

From the deep

comes the magical sea dragons. I saw these gorgeous creatures recently in the phenomenal documentray  Blue Planet 2 and thought of making a card for an illlustrator friend of mine. So here it is. 

when you are not yet ready

for the photograph and a something crawls on the ceiling.

Greyscale

Lately I have been using Mischief. I love the simplicity of it, especially for quick sketches. 

This is a memory sketch of a gentleman i saw on the way to work.

People sketching - 01

I found some really cool people sketching tutorials from my favourite and terrific illustrator Brandon Green - https://youtu.be/IuuD9mJ8Gz0

I did a sketch of one guy  from Iamchicago.net after watching the tutorial, although i got carried away in details when doing the coloring bit. But I will do few more where I will try to explore more on design part. 
For now here is the finished sketch. 

More from the vault

I realized, since this will be my main place where i will post all my drawings and paintings, I would keep everything here. Hence I am gonna post some really old stuff too. Bear with the me please :) 

so this one is two robot concepts I did for a short film we wanted to create in our studio - CineChromatix, back in 2014. The designs were approved from couple of options and then my colleague who is an incredible modeler, realized them in 3d. sadly we never got time to do our short film. I also did few storyboards for that, we thought of a live action/vfx based film. 

This one is concept of  drone for a TV series called Tartort kalstart, you hardly see the drone in the shots as its a night shot, out in the dark, all one sees is laser beam from one of the drones. But hey I got to design and model and animate a drone :)   

and here is the turntable of the model - https://vimeo.com/236828561


Now these are even more older stuff, practice paintings from photographs.