Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)Directed by James Gunn (@jamesgunn)The fifteenth entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was released on Friday in theatres here and I watched it yesterday. The movie picks up a few months after the first film and finds the Guardians on the run from the Sovereign (a race of gold skinned beings). They are rescued by a man who claims to be Star-Lord / Peter Quill's (Chris Pratt) father, and he takes them to his planet. Meanwhile, old friends and enemies are also after the Guardians and they must save the Galaxy again. It's difficult to discuss further details about the plot without giving away spoilers.Like the first movie, this is one of the more quirky MCU movies, a very personal kind of project for James Gunn. Unlike many of the other MCU movies, this one is rather self contained and doesn't really set up "Thor: Ragnarok" or even "Avengers: Infinity War", barring a few references to Thanos and events from the first movie. To me, this was slightly disappointing, as I expected more of Universe-building and a meatier plot. I also thought it took awhile to get to the main conflict. However, that being said, it's a very charming and fun movie, and had the audience laughing throughout. The characters were enjoyable to watch, and Baby Groot steals the show as you'd expect. The cinematography (they shot it in 8K, on the RED Weapon 8K system) and vibrant visuals were a treat, as was the music. There are some surprise cameos in the movie, and watch out for 5 mid/post credit sequences.I've drawn him before, but since he was such an adorable character in the movie, here's another sketch of Baby Groot. The next time we see Groot, in "Avengers: Infinity War", he will be full grown, since that movie will take place 4 years after the events of this one. The sketch was done with pencil and colour pencils, and scanned. It's based on an image that @vindiesel posted on Instagram. "In these times of hardship, just remember, We are Groot!" #255 / 7-May-17
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)Directed by George Lucas This is a #StarWarsDay post, though, I'm posting it a day late. Of course, it's still May 4th in some parts of the world so it's OK I guess. #MayThe4thBeWithYouI have done several Star Wars sketches over the years, so was not sure of what to draw this time. I've drawn the major characters already. I thought I'd draw Max Rebo from the Max Rebo Band from "Return of the Jedi" (I like the song "Lapti Nek" featured in the original 1983 release, a lot). I finally decided to draw this Storm Trooper. The Imperial Storm Troopers are precise and accurate with their blasts, as Obi-Wan Kenobi explains to Luke Skywalker. But the way they are actually seen in the movies, they have bad aim Also, this is the Storm Trooper that Obi-Wan influences with his Jedi Mind Powers and says, "These aren't the droids you're looking for" when they arrive at Mos Eisley. I drew this in pencil and scanned it, the orange / brown colour was added in Photoshop. Happy Star Wars Day everyone. May the Force Be With You and May the 4th Be With You! #254 / 5-May-17
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Amour a.k.a. Love (2012)Directed by Michael HanekeI watched this movie last Friday, as part of a screening at Cinephiles Film Club. In April, all the movies screened were Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners, and this French movie took the prize in 2013.The movie is about Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), an elderly couple, in their eighties. Anne experiences a sudden stroke, and undergoes a subsequent surgery that leaves her paralyzed on one side. The movie depicts how Georges cares for her, with her increasingly worsening health condition. Dramas are not my type of movie at all. So, I wasn't really looking forward to watching it, and was not expecting to like it at all. However, it turned out that this was one of the best movies I watched at the Film Club screenings. It's very well made, and superbly acted. The movie was very emotionally impactful and it has a very realistic depiction of love and how difficult it can be. It's well written and was engaging. Darius Khondji who shot David Fincher's "Se7en" is the cinematographer for this movie. This is a sketch of Emmanuelle Riva as Anne from the movie. At the age of 85, she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. The drawing was done in pencil and this is a scan. #253 / 3-May-17
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)Directed by S S Rajamouli [×× NO SPOILERS!! ××] I finally watched "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion" yesterday morning, at Ramakrishna 70mm at Abids (I wore my Kattappa artwork t-shirt while watching the movie – you can see @karthikabhiram for that post). The movie picks up from where the first one left off, and nicely wraps up all the storylines established there.I loved the acting, the music, the cinematography and the overall visuals. Like the first movie, this one contains some stunning imagery, and moments of great beauty (this sketch depicts one of those wow moments). It's epic and the action scenes are very stylised. I really liked the storytelling and the emotional impact they created. I thought this movie topped the first in practically every aspect.I do have some criticisms about it, the visual effects while of a high standard, are not up to par sometimes, which is kind of distracting. It's much better than the first part though. Also, when the action sequences are so stylised, you have to suspend disbelief quite a bit when characters are doing impossible stunts. They seemed to have rushed the conclusion in the third act strangely. A few minutes more would have helped there.Despite those, I really loved the movie, and I enjoyed it more than the first one. No one can fault the filmmakers for aiming really high. I'd say they pulled off most of what they wanted to achieve. Maybe if I watch it a second time I might focus more on the flaws and rate it a bit lower, but I enjoyed it so much on the first viewing that I'm rating it a 10/10.This is a sketch of Anushka Shetty (@anushkashettyofficial) as Devasena from the movie. She is a prominent character here and I loved the way the character was written and acted. I drew this in pencil (the red part was with a ballpoint pen), and scanned it. I'm also tagging @baahubalimovie here, hope you like the sketch!#252 / 1-May-17
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Attended Hyderabad Artists Meetup today and showed my work on Instagram – both the sketches here on @dailymoviesketch and some of the photos from @karthikabhiram. It was great to be a part of this meetup. I'll be posting another group photo on my other account. #VSCOCam #Canon #5DMarkIII #50mm
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[A drawing of @kennethseb and @prattprattpratt from the recently released video – "Chris Pratt does the Butter Chicken Rap"] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)Directed by James Gunn (@jamesgunn)Some days back, Marvel India released a trailer for GotG Vol 2, which featured a 1980s Bappi Lahiri song. I thought it was a pretty clever piece of marketing. A little while after that, there was a fun video with stand up comedian Kenny Sebastian (@kennethseb) interviewing Chris Pratt (@prattprattpratt), teaching him some Hindi, doing some improv. It was a nice video and I thought I'd use that as a basis for a sketch. This was done with a mechanical pencil with 0.5mm 2B lead and scanned. I added the Guardians logo in Photoshop. I'll post a photo of the drawing on my main account @karthikabhiram. Kenny and Crisp Rat… uhhh… Chris, if you guys see this drawing I hope you like it 🙂 #251 / 28-Apr-17
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Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)Directed by Rian Johnson The first teaser and poster for this movie was released a few days ago. While I think in terms of a trailer building the anticipation for the movie, the "Thor: Ragnarok" one was more entertaining, this was good too. It seemed pretty dark, and apart from the shot of Kylo Ren with his lightsaber I couldn't pick up anything to draw from it. So, I drew this picture of Daisy Ridley as Rey from a poster that was released before. This was drawn in pencil and scanned. I had bought a new mechanical pencil and drew this with the 0.5mm HB lead that was in it, I think, now I prefer the 2B ones. #250 / 22-Apr-17
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Been a while since I posted a photo of myself, so taking this opportunity to do so, and also to show off this @paintcollar t-shirt with my "Baahubali 2" artwork on it. You can order one for yourself, at http://paintcollar.com/karthikabhiram. #VSCOCam #Canon #550D
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Sharing this again, as there seemed to be some trouble with yesterday's post. I had made it a multiple image post, due to which I wasn't able to share it on FB, and I also faced trouble in tagging people. This is a poster for a fictional movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (@schwarzenegger) and Steven Seagal (@seagalofficial). It's based on an idea by Max Temkin (@maxtemkin) who made a 1990s action movie title generator. This post features the artwork and main title only. I drew the two stars in pencil and scanned the art, and added the text and colours in Photoshop. See the previous post, for the full poster (it's in 27" × 40" dimensions). I tried to make the credits also as authentic as possible. The cast and crew for this movie are actually people who were working on the action movies at the time. It's got a pretty big name cast and crew. I'm sure any 80s/90s action movie fan would love to see a movie like this
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[A poster based on a fictional movie!] Maximum Force Forever (1992)Directed by Renny Harlin Yesterday, I came across a tweet by @maxtemkin, where he posted a bunch of computer generated 1990s action movie titles. I loved the idea, and I thought, why not do a poster based on one of them. So I picked this, "Maximum Force Forever" and designed a poster around it. The artwork was done in pencil and the text and colours were added in Photoshop. The background to the fictional movie is this – it is the sequel to "Maximum Force" (1988) and "Maximum Force II" (1990), both starring Steven Seagal. For the first time in a movie franchise, the third entry got a bigger budget and brought on board a bigger star – Arnold Schwarzenegger (@Schwarzenegger). This movie is envisioned as a science fiction thriller, set in the near future of 1998. The two action stars must stop a cyber terrorist who threatens to bring about Armageddon. Check out the credit block, I tried to make the titles as authentic as possible too (the crew consists of people who might have actually been part of this film's production). Tagging some movie poster accounts as well, you may find this interesting! @ampposters @alternativemovieposters @movieflyer #249 / 17-Apr-17
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