Justice League (2017) / Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)Directed by Zack SnyderLast Saturday, @theonyxmethod and I had done an @instagram Live Video Session in which we talked about our artwork, our process and also showed off some of our sketches. This is available to watch on the IGTV of my @karthikabhiram account. After that one hour was over, we stayed Live for another 45 minutes where we were drawing — he worked on his Bane drawing (which he posted recently) and I did this.I wanted to draw something with a good bit of contrast and since it was recently announced that we are going to get to see Zack Snyder's original vision of "Justice League" in 2021, Batman seemed like a no brainer to draw. (More on the Snyder Cut in my post and Stories on @karthikabhiram). #dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpointpendrawing#releasethesnydercut #zacksnydersjusticeleague@hbomax #hbomax#537 / 23-May-20
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Event Horizon (1997)Directed by Paul W S AndersonAnother "Event Horizon" based drawing that I did, while watching the movie a few days ago. This shows one of the characters on video footage, who's just ripped his eyes out.The drawing was done with multi colour ballpoint pen and this is a scan.#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpointpendrawing#536 / 17-May-20
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Event Horizon (1997)Directed by Paul W S AndersonSee the previous post for more details — this drawing was done with my non dominant hand (left hand in my case) as part of a challenge. It took one hour to do and was an interesting experience. I'd have done it in a much shorter time had it been with my right hand and the result would have been more refined. But it still turned out pretty well. I'd posted a photo earlier, this is the scanned version. The movie is a very well made science fiction horror film from 1997, it is gorgeously shot, has a creepy atmosphere and a good dose of blood and gore. Apparently director Paul Anderson was given less time to complete the film and the studio ordered cuts — especially of a scene supposedly called the "hell orgy", which you only see glimpses of in the finished version. The scene featured a lot more disturbing material, people being impaled and tortured and so on. Now that would've been interesting to see. It does feel to me like the movie would've been improved had it been given more time to breathe and scenes were fleshed out more.Nevertheless it's certainly a good movie, probably one of Anderson's best.#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#pencildrawing#535 / 17-May-20
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𝘿𝙍𝘼𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙉𝙊𝙉 𝘿𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙉𝙏 𝙃𝘼𝙉𝘿 | 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙏𝙚 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙩 𝙀𝙭 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙨 — I was watching "Event Horizon" yesterday, and I did two drawings based on it. The first one with Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) being shown sights of hell by the Weirbeast (Sam Neill) was for a challenge to draw with one's non dominant hand as suggested by @shrek_rao_arts_ — so I drew it with my left hand.It was an interesting experience to do so. I drew with pencil so I could focus on spreading the shade and I could erase also. It was much slower, where I found my mind probably thinking ahead and the hand trying to catch up to do what I wanted. And the final result is not as refined. But I am still happy with the way it came out. I would encourage other artists also to try this, it kind of slows things down and makes you think more about your own drawing process. I'd already tagged a few artist friends on Stories, will do so again in the comments on this post.Swipe to see a timelapse, which could have been framed better but it shows the process. Approximately 1 hour of drawing condensed to 30 seconds. I forced myself to erase also with left hand only.The second drawing was done with right hand only, and with ballpoint pen. This was a quick sketch showing the former "Event Horizon" Captain with his eyes ripped out, saying that Latin phrase meaning "Save yourself from Hell". "Event Horizon" is an underrated horror movie from 1997. Directed by Paul W S Anderson, it has gorgeous visuals, fantastic set design and beautiful cinematography. Horror fans will also be pleased to know that it contains a good amount of effective blood / gore effects which contribute to the creepy atmosphere.I'll write more about it later, when I post the scans of both drawings on my @dailymoviesketch account.The last slide is a meme I made, since in this movie, the explanation of a faster than light travel is the same as how it's depicted in "Interstellar" (the pen passing through paper analogy). I'm posting these images and video on both my @karthikabhiram and @dailymoviesketch accounts.#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch #teampixel#flatlay
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[BIRTHDAY ARTWORK — 15-MAY-2020]Commando (1985)Directed by Mark L LesterOn my birthday (15 May) this year, I thought I’d do a drawing of a movie that's very close to my heart — the 1980s action classic, “Commando”. I watched it dozens of times as a kid, it was the first movie of @schwarzenegger’s that I saw (I think when I was in 5th or 6th class). I became a fan of his because of this movie, and it is a total blast.It is not the best of Arnold’s movies, but, definitely one of the most entertaining ones, thanks to all the jokes and one liners, courtesy scripter Steven E deSouza. Arnold is Col John Matrix, a retired Special Forces solider. Deposed dictator Arius has Matrix’s daughter kidnapped, in order to make him assassinate the President of the South American country Val Verde. Matrix must rescue his daughter within 11 hours.I rewatched this now and had a huge grin on my face throughout. Such an easy movie to watch – the 90 minutes pass by very quickly.I am very thankful to have grown up with movies like this one, “Predator”, “The Terminator” and “Total Recall”. They don't make them like they used to! Here are a few facts about the movie – • Composer James Horner would go on to make music scores for movies like “Titanic” and “Avatar” but I became a fan of his because of his music score for “Commando”. It is so catchy and awesome.• Val Verde is a fictional country, and was used in “Die Hard 2” as well, with General Ramon Esperanza being from there. So, can one assume the movies take place in the same universe?• There is a Director’s Cut for this movie which reinstates about a minute and a half of footage (I’ve seen it, but the film is great as is).• Story writer Joseph Loeb III is Jeph Loeb, who would go on to work in comics, notably, “Batman: Hush”. • Alyssa Milano who stars as Matrix’s daughter Jenny would go on to become a big star, and Peter Quill’s ship in “Guardians of the Galaxy” (the Milano) is named after her.I drew Schwarzenegger as Matrix from the movie. This was done with 0.5mm 2B pencil on A6 sketchbook and scanned. #534 / 15-May-20
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)Directed by Rob LettermanI watched "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" on @primevideoin some days ago. I have no familiarity with the Pokémon franchise but I was told that was not necessary to enjoy the movie, so I watched it and thought it was good. The story has Tim (Justice Smith) going to Ryme City (where humans and Pokémon live together), when he gets the news that his father Harry has mysteriously disappeared, thought to be dead. Detective Pikachu (performed by Ryan Reynolds), once Harry's partner, now with amnesia, teams up with him to get to the bottom of the mystery.The movie has a colourful, cinematic look (it was shot on 35mm film) and the CGI is well done. The best part of the movie to me was Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu, his voice and the animation made the character very likeable. The storyline has its twists but ultimately I thought it was nothing new and some of the big reveals were very predictable. It was very easy to watch though, and enjoyable. I thought this was about as good as (or maybe slightly better than) "Sonic the Hedgehog", another example of a CGI creature paired with a human in an adventure, adapted from other media. I drew Detective Pikachu from the movie, specifically this frame with his deerstalker cap and magnifying glass. The drawing was done with multi colour ballpoint pen on A5 paper and scanned.#dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram#ballpointpen #ballpointpendrawing #ballpointpenart#pokemon #pokemondetectivepikachu #detectivepikachu #pikachu#533 / 14-May-20
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Birthday drawing! This year, on my birthday (15 May) I decided to re-watch a movie that's very close to my heart — the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action classic "Commando". As a kid I watched this dozens of times (I guess this is one of those action movies which a lot of us would have grown up with, as kids, though we were probably too young for it), and loved it, it's not Schwarzenegger's best movie but certainly one of his most entertaining ones, thanks to scripter Steven E deSouza's inclusion of a lot of one liners. The movie will put a big grin on your face throughout. I drew @schwarzenegger as John Matrix from the movie, it's also one of the suggestions I got for #sixfanarts. I'm posting this on both my @karthikabhiram and @dailymoviesketch accounts, I'll post a scan and review on @dailymoviesketch soon. #pixel2xl #teampixel #karthikabhiram
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Inspired by @sean_kitt's Live sessions where he has drawn people I also thought to draw quick sketches. I thought of this meme template (with the first three panels being from "Avengers: Endgame" and the last one being from the elevator fight scene in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"), since it has multiple faces and things to draw. I did two attempts, one with ballpoint pen in 30-40 min, and the other one in pencil which took 50 min. I think the results with pencil are better. I also plan to do a Live session like him where I'll draw people (this will be on my @karthikabhiram account). I'm not giving these a sketch number, posting them here though since they're movie related. #dailymoviesketch #karthikabhiram #memes #memesimade #memetemplates #captainamerica
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𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐕𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 — #ArtvsArtist is trending again, so here is a collage for #ArtvsArtist2020. Usually I make multiple collages using only pictures, but this time I thought I'll incorporate video (the latest one I made), and make only one collage for both my @karthikabhiram and @dailymoviesketch accounts, showing my work from both. Taking this opportunity to thank everyone for following and supporting my work! Do follow both accounts if you aren't doing that already — I'm more active on @karthikabhiram (primary account) where I post photos and sketches, and Stories, and @dailymoviesketch is exclusively for my movie related artworks. #karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch
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My action scene, the Noir version — inspired by the stunt professionals / Hollywood actresses version of the #dontrushchallenge involving stunts and fights, I thought I'd try my hand at it. Yes, this is not a sketch but since it's movie related and I made it, I'm posting it here. This is the B&W version, you can watch the colour version on my @karthikabhiram account, and also see a few more details about it.
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