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Paintings of Hindu Gods

These are the next 3 paintings in the series of paintings of Hindu Gods that I am currently doing.

Lord Shiva
Shiva resembles 'Tapa' (Penance). I am happy with the final result I have been able to create. The tiger skin was a very interesting feature to paint and it included the use of a variety of brushes, some of which I had to design myself. I opted to let the eyes be closed. The 'Naja' (cobra snake) and the 'Third eye of Shankar' are other interesting features I wanted to work more upon, but due to time constraints, I could come up with as much as I have.

Hindu God: Shiva

Lord Brahma
I am proud that I could bring such realistic image into the painting within 2 days. The background seems to have merged so well with the deity and also the color combination of the attire and ornaments seems to have worked out well. In the series of paintings I am doing, I would rate this as the best so far.

Hidu God: Brahma

Devi Lakshmi
Devi Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. Ofcourse, there had to be lot of wealth and opulence in the image. Most of the images/paintings of Goddess Lakshmi are pretty similar and I wanted to come up with a different one, especially the face.

Goddess Lakshmi, the deity of wealth

Raj: A 2D character

I was in search of an interesting Facebook profile picture and more importantly a logo/icon for my portfolio. 

Yes, it has been inspired from the character from Hum Tum, but as every artist-singer-director-actor would put it - It's only the inspiration that  have taken from that character ;)

Presently I am doing this project of images of Hindu God's and deities, those thoughts were also running on the back of my mind and I ended up putting a Gopi-Tilak on the forehead.

Then when it was completed, I started thinking of a name; It's me ... So let's call it Raj ;-)

Saraswati Devi

This is the 2nd painting in the series of 17 paintings I am doing for a client.

I feel blessed to have this opportunity to create the Gods. The image of Saraswati Devi was indeed a bliss to work with. It always had to be a white Saree with a beautiful red border. Also I knew that the centre of attraction for the image would be the Veena, the musical instrument that Sharada Devi has in her hands.

Again, a word about the background. I am again happy that all the things I have added to the background have merged so well.

The Goddess of knowledge and art has indeed helped me in doing this image.

Gopala
My best Photoshop work

Gopala

This is my latest creation.

This has been done for a client who wants to publish a book on Bhaktiyoga. The client wanted an image of Gopala. Gopala is that version of Krishna who grazed cows. I had plans of sketching the painting and then compsing it in Photoshop, but could not do so because of the tight deadlines.

I am happy about the way I have been able to compose the background tree.

It has been mostly brushes, filters and a lot of other tools.

Gopala

Some more paintings that I did of Hindu Gods and Goddesses can be found in these posts:

Images of Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma and Goddess Lakshmi

Saraswati devi: The Goddess of knowledge and art

My best Photoshop work

I am proud of this beautiful creation.

I made this Digital Painting about an year ago. The enormous scope I had to test myself and my art propelled me to undertake this assignment.

It is a Borris concept. I made a rough sketch using a brush, then added rough colors. Then went on finishing part by part adding more colors, more ambitions and fine touches. For this painting I studied a lot of famous faces in the world to bring out the best features. I explored lot of tutorials on the internet mainly to study color combinations and filtering effects.

The eyes of this painting are very dear to me. The eyes are solely designed by me without any other reference.

The painting involves use of a varied textures, filters plug ins. The lips are mainly created using plug ins and filters.

I'll not go more into describing the technicalities. Let us be content with her beautiful eyes.

My first Photoshop work

My first Photoshop work

This was about 4 years ago. I saw this picture somewhere in a magazine. Immediately I wanted to recreate her. What inspired me to do this work was the light effects, specially the hair, the eyes and peculiar teeth.

The complete image has been completed using Photoshop. I had less knowledge of color sense leading me to work mostly using one by one strokes with 2-3 brushes. I mostly worked layer to layer. Now, I can combine colors in the same layer. Now Photoshop has become my life. I have now learnt effective use of filters to bring texturing effects and create brushes as well.

This work also gave me a lot of lessons in Anatomy, as you can see there are lot of mistakes in it.

Anyways, this always remains a special image, first love of my life, maybe ;)

My best Photoshop work
Saraswati Devi