The Silent Treatment

Sketched during juries...

Our hours are spent in maintenance.

We are the janitors of our lives.

Illustrating the Mural...

My incomplete concept art for the mural, the poem was supposed to come above the steaming cup of chai and the last line flows out towards the bottom left corner where it splats.


The final illustration selected. This one was made by recomposing illustrations by different people based on the poem. The grid is only for reference.


Pictures of the process coming soon!

One Messy Night...

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This is poem I wrote as inspiration for the mural we're planning to paint on our mess wall.

The great thing about a drawing is that...

...you can make yourself look as good as you want!

When we did the "DIU"!

On the way to Diu!

Midnight Chai

The Beach

Yours Truly

The Arabian Sea

Sundar and Jacob on the wall.

The whole gang.

Swapnil, me and Sundar

Action:

Reaction:

The caves from above.

On the way back.

Cultural Day - 2006

The two Annas

Blacks Only

Batch of 2004

Self Caricature - Part 1 - "The Sketch"

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Above: Me... All Black 'n Blue

Okay, okay. So this is a little self-indulgent. But I thought I'd make my own caricature and use it as a template for exploring styles and mediums. Also, I need something new as a display image. I was getting bored of the old one!

So what do we have here? Well basically, it's a blue pencil sketch with a permanent marker outline. The reason for using blue pencil (I only recently discovered) is because of it has many advantages:

- With a blue pencil, you can go wild with your rough strokes and work well with volumes.
- A blue pencil is light, compared to graphite, and so you only see as much as you need to.
- Last but not least, when you Xerox blue-pencil art, it disappears! That way, you don't need to trace your work -- you can just ink on top of it and take a Xerox or blast away the blue in Photoshop (which is incidentally the next step).

Cleanup:

The process mentioned above is Cleanup, where you get rid of the rough strokes and leave only the black ink lines. But the problem is that doing that makes your art lose a lot of character and depth.

Above: Me... All Cleaned Up!

See what I mean?

But the fact is that this is what I'll be using to move ahead to the next stage....

Coming Soon!

What's in a name?

Monday depression.

I'm such a moody guy. I've been thinking about names among other things. I remember that my blog WAS called Wren's World. "Wren" was a word/name I was attached to for a long time, for no particular reason.

Later, I changed to just "Rohit Iyer", because actually... that's the kind of person I am.

Why did I have to go and look at all these other sites with cool names like "". com?

Maybe I should call my blog - "The Man Eating Tiger". Huh?

The deal with Blogger is that you can change the name, but not the URL. That involves a lot of complications. And should I keep starting new blogs for every new idea I have?

*There really IS a "The Man Eating Tiger" Blog, by the way... http://maneatingtiger.blogspot.com/ - I made it. Ha!

It's all really... complicated.

The security in naming one's blog after oneself is that you KNOW you'll always be attached to your name, whereas you might always grow out of a funky, fundoo whatchamacallit cool name.

Yeah...

"And tomorrow folks - we'll talk about templates! What template defines YOU?"

Arrgh! Priorities... that's what I need. BOO-YAH!

How It Should Have Ended

Found this over on YouTube - It ranks right up there with Angry Alien and The Cowboy Critic. For more secret endings to your favourite movies, check out http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com.

Counterstrike Condition Green

A Counterstrike Parody made by Jupiter and I for VC during Monsoon Fiesta 2006 -

India All Over

Happy Independence Day. Have a good one, folks!

"New York, New York!"

The Alley

For a short story assignment based on any proverb...

The Alley

By Rohit Iyer

A man was walking down a lane in London when someone hissed at him from inside an alley. “Come in here”, said a voice and a finger emerged from the darkness indicating to the man that he should enter. Being a curious man he made his way into the alley. There he found an attractive woman who looked to be in her thirties. She was chained to the wall. The man asked her, “Who’re you?” She replied, “I’m Kate Moss – the supermodel”. The man smiled and asked, “So what do you want from me?” She answered, “My entire family has disowned me because of my alleged involvement with cocaine usage last year. I am trapped in this alley. I need you to get all my family members here. Only they can free me. In return I will grant you three wishes. Ask and you shall receive.” The man thought for a while and decided on all three at once. He said, “I wish to be rich, famous and talented.” POOF! The man transformed into Keith Richards. He looked shocked and he screamed, “This is not what I asked for!” to which Kate said, “It’s the best I could do. Now please go and get my family!” The man said, “Sorry. No can do.” She was frantic, “Why not?!” As the man walked out of the alley with his guitar over his shoulder he whispered, “Lady - A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss.”