my skratchpad

The blog has moved

2012-01-17T14:40:00.001+05:30

The Blog Has Moved.

After a lot of trial and error (mostly error, owing to my expertise in webhosting related matters) this blog has found a new home at http://creativeincision.in/. Not too far from here, but a lot more reader-friendly and pretty-looking (I hope).

Singning Off,

Yourstruly.

Piercing, A story

2009-05-16T14:57:00.005+05:30

When i decided to get a facial piercing, i obviously decided to go public with my perforated identity. Because however small the pierce, there's just no hiding a facial piercing. So it is for those who are ready to be visibly marked. And whose jobs

and/or 'parents' don't mind. But in my case parents really mind!! So i dint bother telling!! ;)

Before i took a stab at new facial decoration, just had some thoughts...

you cant just underestimate how much one piece of jewelry can change others' perceptions of you. Having facial piercings puts you on the frontlines of the public's reaction to body piercing. Whether it counts for or against you, your business is on the table. Just consider what doors you are opening or closing with that one little ring. Facial piercing can highlight your eyes, accent your lips, give you that scary profile you always wanted, or add just a touch of mystique.They are often easy to get, and relatively easy to heal. But, like any other body modification, you'll want to consider how the piercing will affect your lifestyle, both physically and socially, before you hop in the chair.

Eyebrow piercings first turned up in the 1980s, and have been growing in popularity ever since. They are one of the only purely aesthetic piercings, having no recognized symbolic meaning associated with them. They draw attention to one's eyes and upper face, either opening the gaze or intensifying it, depending on placement. Eyebrow piercings also tend to be very easy to sit through and quite simple to heal.

The procedure of an eyebrow piercin will vary from piercer o piercer. After cleaning and marking the area, many piercers will clamp the skin with forceps, pierce the skin, remove the for

ceps, and insert the jewelry on the back of the needle. Some piercers will use a freehand technique, meaning that they pinch your skin with their fingers, rather than using forceps to clamp it (mine was done in dat way). This may add a fraction of a second to the piercing time, but reduces the chance of bruising and swelling from the piercing. Since the clamps are often the most uncomfortable part of a piercing, freehand procedures are often less traumatic to sit through. However either of the procedures result in a perfect beautiful eyebrow piercing, as mine did!

Now jus relax and let it heal!

The finished look of your piercing will depend not only on your jewelry choice, but also on the placement of the piercing. Placed on the outer third of the eyebrow, the piercing will make the eyes appear wider set and more open. Piercing the inner third of the eyebrow, closer to the bridge of the nose, lends an intense seriousness to the expression. Usual placement is towards the outer end of the eyebrow, just past the arch, above the outer edge of the iris as you look straight ahead. This location is pleasing on almost all faces. The angle of the piercing can also be adjusted, from nearly vertical to a dramatic diagonal. Vertical placement draws attention to the piercing itself, rather than to the face. An approximately 45 degree angle ending at the outer edge of the iris tends to highlight the eyes, though the exact angle will depend on the individual face.

Overall, eyebrow piercings tend to be the most user-friendly facial piercing. They are not painful to get, are elementary to care for, and they compliment most facial features.

They leave you little to worry about, except maybe your 'loving' mother... they never understand this do they!! :'(

While some eyebrow piercings last several years, while some jus a week when ur loving mothers come to know about it!

LOL hope i can convince her! But the piercing was a quenching experience!

Coffee

2009-05-13T06:39:00.001+05:30

Coffee on table

2009-05-13T06:37:00.000+05:30

water colour n ink

When boredom n sketch pens meet!!

2009-05-08T18:45:00.003+05:30

Architecture study

2009-05-08T18:34:00.006+05:30

We were told it was one!

Lol! but it was fun on the floor!!

The ladies of the swiss exchange program ( grins ;D) made the architecture study fun!! :D

Packaging : Folder

2009-05-06T18:00:00.002+05:30

Life in Colour or Colour in Life ??

2009-05-06T05:38:00.017+05:30

coloured pin-points

a martyrs' red

the RGB block

a dive in blue

not all colours can be washed off...

a 'dip'

drippin o' drippin

Hi!!

2009-04-23T00:01:00.000+05:30

I guess the day I was born is apt to start back bloggin!!
Hope dat i'd be able to keep updatin the blog!
Theres a lotta work to do!
Cyah guys around.

and yea happy b'dday to me!! ;)

Doodle no. XVII

2008-03-26T19:27:00.004+05:30

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. They are simple drawings which can have a meaning, a shape or just irregular forms.

so does mine have a meaning?? O.o

Che

2008-03-18T21:40:00.004+05:30

acrylic on wood (20" x 17")
well that was a paintin i did on my cupboard door!! :)

munni ki patang

2008-03-17T22:38:00.002+05:30

Urban ramble

2008-03-17T00:31:00.003+05:30

Whille grunge has its origin in the 90's, recently the style has been gaining in popularity once more.
Here is a dirty, urban style image themed on "music".

The Secrets Of Grunge Design

2008-03-17T00:00:00.005+05:30

Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it. In our everyday environment we’re unlikely to find ideal geometric forms or pretty shadow effects as they are manifested by glorious Web 2.0-designs. The reality is different, and Web is definitely not an exception here.

Therefore designers often tend to explore the less ideal and more realistic design solutions which reflect the world we’re living in more accurately and precisely. Result: such elements give the design a more realistic, genuine look, a look one would actually expect in real life.

In such grunge designs dirty stains, torn images, “broken” icons and creased pieces of paper are as popular as hand-drawn elementsand dirty textures. The main purpose of hand-drawn elements lies in their ability to convey a personality and an individual note. And dirty textures are often used as background images for navigation menus, photos and overall layouts. Usually these elements are regular objects from our daily life, replicated in their real form without any glossy effects.

Most of the people are always confused about the purpose of these “dirty”, “graffiti-like”, “urban” elements, it’s important to understand that grunge designs don’t necessarily have a dirty look.

In fact, grungy layouts don’t necessarily consist only of grungy design elements. The latter can as well support the design, giving it a more realistic look without making it look overcrowded or dirty. Take a look at Bart-Jan Verhoef’s blog . Although the design has a number of irregular elements such hand-drawn doodles and dirty background image, it doesn’t feel dirty at all — in fact, the design is rather subtle, clean, elegant and in any case unique.

Sometimes it’s enough to add just few irregular (or dirty) elements to achieve a more realistic look. In online-shops and corporate projects it simply doesn’t work otherwise. In such cases small details influence the mood and define the perception of the users. Sometimes it’s enough to simply replace the background image of the layout with a dirty texture.

Trends in Grunge Design

Dirty textures and background images are almost essential in every grunge design.
irregular lines and frames
yellowed scotch tape
paper- and photo clips, needles and various pins
coffee rings, spilled out liquids and dirty stains
torn paper and dirty edges
dog-ears
hand-written elements

Joe Grisham’s site is exemplary for the elements listed above. Multiple grunge elements in use…

The most valuable and innovative ideas had all been handwritten first. That’s no big news, since designers tend to produce first sketches as paper prototypes anyway; still it’s important, because web design is different from “usual” design. Of course, it also has a personal note and it is hand-made, however users can’t see that. As CSS is “boxy but good”, designs tend to have a rather limited appearance — they are too boxy and too right-angled.

If designers want to achieve a different design, they have to draw their sites by themselves — or at least some parts of it. And in fact, this is done quite often: whether a blog, a shop, an ad, a private page, or some collaborative project — doesn’t matter whether with Flash or (X)HTML. The main purpose of hand-drawn elements lies in their ability to convey a personality and an individual note in times when colorful, sharp and rounded Web 2.0 elements can be found almost everywhere.

Sometimes designers create whole pages with paper, pencil and/or a tablet PC. More often single layout elements are designed in a special way — curved links, hand-made icons, backgrounds, notes, stickers and fuzzy lines are supposed to give the site a “human touch”. These elements makes a web-page which might not look different from dozens of similar pages, stand out and arise users’ curiosity.
Caution: a quickly installed hand-written font can harm more than help (hint: Comic Sans is definitely not the way to go).

autograff

2008-03-14T09:03:00.009+05:30

finally i did find a cover for my autograph book!! :)

Heath ledger (look alike)

2008-03-10T16:04:00.004+05:30

tried to sketch down heath ledger, hmm smwot a look alike!! :P

Tia

2008-03-05T09:35:00.001+05:30

Citrus

2008-03-05T06:04:00.001+05:30

Scarlet Macaw

2008-03-05T05:57:00.004+05:30

oil on paper
19 x 24

Ghulam Ali

2008-03-04T15:21:00.002+05:30

ग़ुलाम अली
غلام علی

Ghulam Ali (born 1940) is a famous Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala Gharana. He is not to be confused with the eminent classical vocalist Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (of whom he was a disciple) or Chhote Ghulam Ali, who is another Pakistani singer, but in the qawwali style.

WANTED

2008-02-26T05:55:00.001+05:30

yet another photoshopped piece!!

Revolution! go change your world!!

2008-02-25T12:11:00.001+05:30

This poster design inspires you to learn about design history. There are a lot of interesting artists and art movements. The past is a rich design resource that can have a positive influence on
your designs.
It is a poster design inspired by an art movement called Russian Constructivism. I cut up some images and paste them together to create a stylized revolutionary design and then tied it all together by overlaying some texture to give it a vintage feel.

Inspired by,

Badass bling!!

2008-02-20T13:18:00.000+05:30

I created this “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer.

when i met me!

2008-02-04T18:54:00.000+05:30

cartography`

2007-12-18T04:19:00.000+05:30

Ever wondered how it feels like to be a cartographer?

© All rights reserved.

the Chronicles of Time`

2007-12-05T19:37:00.001+05:30

recorede` vinyle (neva mind the 'e')

2007-12-01T21:45:00.000+05:30

auto`grafed

2007-11-10T17:56:00.001+05:30

Rainin memoriez

2007-11-07T14:26:00.000+05:30

Surfin thru my memoriez

2007-11-07T01:28:00.001+05:30

tee-shirt printz

2007-11-07T01:21:00.001+05:30

design for life

2007-11-07T01:14:00.000+05:30

koffee wid a friend!

2007-10-13T20:22:00.000+05:30

server error 303

2007-10-13T13:30:00.000+05:30

Refracted - an ambient streak

2007-10-02T13:00:00.000+05:30

before!

after!

put together a sunset image and some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects ,produced a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!

my Diary

2007-10-02T12:46:00.001+05:30

metallic inter`faze

2007-10-02T12:46:00.000+05:30

hazardouzly red

2007-10-02T12:45:00.000+05:30

bloody!

2007-10-02T12:44:00.000+05:30

sig`

2007-09-30T22:24:00.000+05:30

Glow fx

2007-09-30T07:30:00.000+05:30

`managed to create some really sharp looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the pen tool and colour blending in cs3.

Bloody skratch

2007-09-29T19:00:00.000+05:30

brush magic wid p-shop!

Godz own country!!

2007-09-11T21:05:00.000+05:30

lam-p-ost

2007-09-08T22:53:00.001+05:30

the tree

2007-09-08T22:51:00.001+05:30

identity lost!

2007-09-08T22:19:00.002+05:30

Gandhigiri!!

2007-09-08T22:19:00.001+05:30

Cyclopz`

2007-09-08T22:18:00.001+05:30

Dragon unleashed

2007-09-08T22:17:00.001+05:30

centaur centered!!

2007-09-08T22:15:00.000+05:30

Kyle

2007-09-08T22:14:00.001+05:30

pride`

2007-07-30T15:14:00.000+05:30

Harry n Narcissa`

2007-07-29T17:16:00.001+05:30

Voldemort!!

2007-07-29T08:58:00.001+05:30

erm.......voldy looking a bit skinny!!

Red scratch

2007-07-22T21:14:00.001+05:30

jus was scribblin with an old sketch pen n found it interstin!!
jus like dat ;)

Prayers

2007-04-15T17:30:00.000+05:30

"Oh God!

I thank U that I'm able to travel the road of life
with U as my constant Companion.
Thank U for revealing to me our ultimate destination.
Thank U for preparing such a place for Ur children,
a place of unimaginable beauty and happiness!
Thank U that U understand my heart.
Thank U that when I put my life into your hands,
U help me do what you know I can do, and then U do what I can’t do.
Thank U for Ur unfailing love. No matter what, I always have that.
When things are going great for me I know that's because
U're looking out for me, answering my prayers,
and blessing me in more ways than I probably even realize.
And when things aren't going my way,
it helps me keep things in perspective so
I appreciate U and Ur love all the more.
Through all life's ups and downs, U're always there for me.
What more could I ask? "