Inspired by Ramos

Tuesday · 20 Nov 07 · 03:08 AM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: Art

At work we have cab facility for pickup and drop every day, and one has to register their schedule on a roster for this (hosted on the company intranet).  If there's a change in schedule though, there's an ad hoc cab request form which one has to get filled up and use to get a drop allotted.  The point of saying all this is that, one day myself and some of my colleagues had a bunch of these printed out, but they turned out wrong (wrong page settings), so rather than disposing of these sheets of paper, they were deposited on my desk.  I've been using them to scribble random doodles on the blank side.

Inspired by Ramos — Drawing by Karthik Abhiram

Today I did the picture you see above (click the image to see double-sized).  It was done in black ball-point pen.  No particular source or anything, just a weird male face.  The caption says "Inspired by Ramos", because it was inspired by this amazing piece of artwork by Mexican comic-book artist, Humberto Ramos.  Not that they share any similarities, but the inspiration definitely came from Ramos's page.  I wish I could do something of that level of quality!

EDIT: 09:25: Apparently that link I posted is an old one, Ramos has since set up a Wordpress-powered blog here.  On the new blog, you can see his Fight Club piece (which I have been talking about) and this Harry Potter Commission (colour work) which is also beautiful.  Personally, I haven't read any of the books and only watched the first four movies, but this painting is great all the same.

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#1
20 Nov 07 · 04:55 AM
Comment by user Pablo
cool drawing :)
sadly though, the link to the ramos artwork you linked to is wroken :(
#2
20 Nov 07 · 04:56 AM
Comment by user Pablo
broken! not wroken :)
#3
21 Nov 07 · 08:47 AM
Comment by user Pablo
well, it works now. before i would get an error page from google, and the link is on blogspot! very strange :)
#4
Sumithra R
30 Nov 07 · 11:06 PM
wow!! this is quite scary..... now i know what u do in office ..... ;-)
#5
1 Dec 07 · 02:20 PM
Comment by user Karthik
Pablo - Blogger/Blogspot got bought up by Google, so that's why you'd have got error pages from Google :) Anyway good that you were able to see the thing somehow...

Sumithra - small correction, I ALSO do this at office ;)
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