Sketches on Raghukamath – Digital Painter and Freelance Illustrator from India

The cat, the hen and a boy - Sunday Sketch Trip

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:30:53 +0000

A Sunday well spent on an wonderful sketch trip with @coolkarnisam and friends. The village Ambeshiv is located on the banks of the Ulhas river near Badlapur. The village was laid back and devoid of all the urgency of the city. Good way to slow down and focus on some skills.

These were done with brush with black gouache paint and Kuretake Sumi ink .

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hen

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Strangers on Internet

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:45:11 +0000

I am trying to do a brush pen sketch of the first two persons I see on internet in the morning. This will serve as a caffeine to kick-start my daily painting work. I intend to follow this routine and share the sketches here. The sketches won’t be very detailed. I have set a time limit of 10-20 minutes for this exercise and the scans will be as is no corrections nothing. Hopefully this will be like a digital sketchbook for me to refer and analyze in future.

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Digital Landscape paintings

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:30:00 +0530

I have been following the awesome James Gurney for quiet some time now. His book Color and Light- A Guide for the Realist Painter is an excellent resource for painters. Inspired by both his book and his youtube videos, I wanted to spend some time studying landscape painting and improving my understanding of colors and values present in nature.

Here is the first set of such paintings

I also recorded the process of some painting

I also tried a vector only landscape painting. This piece was done using inkscape only. The gradient and filters in inkscape helped me achive the desired look. I want to do some more of vector only paintings in future. You can download the source file for this painting from here.

New year new journey

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:52:00 +0530

From some time I have been contemplating to start a new project, since everybody is in a mood of undertaking new year resolutions. I think it is time for me to take one too, and I think a resolution to kickstart and build a base for this new project would be good. I have done some initial research and brainstorming for the concept, I’ll be uploading the sketches here soon.

Writing a story from scratch is new to me, I am a bit nervous and I also fear that I may ruin the concept by over thinking it, but then I should start somewhere. Although it is hard to write for me I am enjoying this process.Below are two sketches from the project. I’ll be uploading more as and when they get clearer to me.

Journey ahead sketch

characters in the story

I hope to do some illustrations on this project at-least a number which can set the story in motion :)