WIP ... an update

Work was a bit hectic last week, what with go-lives and all, but still got some more time to work on the pic, and here's the result :

and then got to work some more, and completed the hair...

I love doing the hair. Its easier, you can give the definition of the shape and fall with bold strokes and not care too much about the details. After all, a strand or two out of place does not do much to change the shape of a face... unlike the eyes of course. So I rubbed out the awry left eye that I had done last time, but havent corrected it yet ...

The pic is taken with a K-750i, the latest addition to the collection of my gizmo addict room-mate, its autofocus camera is simply wow. Beats the hell out of many digicams, let alone fixed focus cell-cams!

Any gyaan on how I can do this better ? please comment !

Unparalleled Institution of Fraud and Hogwash

Past couple of weeks has been to say the least, very eventful. Alumni from my famed institution were at the flash-point, bearing the brunt of a system that has struggled to overcome its tendency to nurture double-standards. Somebody from my immediate neighborhood became an instant celebrity after a windfall jackpot at KBC. I have been vicariously yet vividly involved in this flux. It makes sense to jot them down.

Gaurav’s stance has been a watershed of an event, where the innocuous looking blog-post has spread like a wildfire to expose the sham that AC is. This extreme reaction was but expected from a person who though has institutionalized public hog-washing and broken records in self-aggrandizing, is inherently an under-educated minnow with a deep sense of insecurity and deep fear for sane and matter-of-factly discussion on his spine-less institution. The brazen, obscene catch lines, without a grain of truth may have taken the marketing exercise to manic proportions, but he is scared ‘coz he also has heard the Bob Marley song. This synchronized machination of his cheap repertoire of fusillade that we have witnessed is the ramification of his deep underlying anxiety. This anxiety is the manifestation of a keen desire to ensure that the systemic plot of mass-fraud is not at all disturbed, coz once the cannonball is displaced, it might never stop rolling. Garnished by the idiotic awards and the meaningless qualifications, all conferred by organizations patronized by the mother-of-all-fraudsters institute of planning and management, and surrounded by a coterie of even-less educated professors whose collective intellectual output is as precious as shit, whose books and papers read like frivolous experimentation with management jargon, this guy has got away too long with his brazen blasphemy to the profession that is management. That the research regarding how this guy has fooled a lot of people for a lot of time is endemic on internet; I hope this result in a just consequence that this foolish nexus deserves.

PS: What was undeniably shocking was the behavior of the Chinese employer!!!
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Work in Progress

I made a promise on 43things about stuff I would like to do in life. Well, two of those are done now, completing a half marathon, and a trip to Goa. More about that in another post. One thing I did note down however, and did nothing about, was to Sketch Regularly. Doodling I did frequently (after all, I do have to sit through lengthy meetings), but all my sketching pencils were gathering dust in the drawer. That’s when I saw this photo of a friend which looked very pretty, and that helped me to at least start on my promise about sketching..

This is what it looks like right now:




















I am using a heavy, large grain paper borrowed from my room-mate; lots more suited to water color than sketching – it has a very rough texture, and would not allow much blending. More important to me was to get the shape right; there were not too many tonal values in the master copy, anyway. However, the alignment of the left eye has gone all awry, will try to set it right at my next sitting. The hair warranted a much darker black, but my 5b Faber Castell is not giving me the desired results on this paper either. Hope to post updates on the work pretty soon, till then any suggestions would be very welcome!