Part of Tashi’s monastic training was in 1988 to enter a closed four year Buddhist retreat, which also gave a sensitive environment to meticulously copy ancient Tibetan texts, furthering his training as a scribe in the highly disciplined, and multiple forms of Tibetan calligraphy.

In 2000 Tashi Travelled to India, where in Dharamsala he was privileged to study under a master of ancient Sanskrit: Lama Pema Lodrup, These artistic forms of Sanskrit called Lanza and Wartu, are preserved by only a handful of practitioners in the world today….

More > www.tashimannox.com
Video > A short film about Tashi’s work

Transformation
This painting shows three rare blue lotus flowers representing the ‘past, present and future’ the passing of time.

Laughing in the face of Pride

Laughing in the face of Stupidity

Homage to Mahakala

Obligatory designer clock

Exterior of the new trains for Mumbai (Bombay) sub-urban railways.

More info > www.saikatbiswas.com

Perfectly illustrated and written by Charles Burn, the story is set in the 70’s and deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease called “The Bug” which causes grotesque mutations in teenagers.

… Burns explains to journalist Steve Appleford that he “thinks of adolescence as a disease one has to live through,” but to regard Black Hole merely as an allegory of the difficulty of teenage identity mutes how the narrative resonates with two crises of public culture: the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rash of school shootings that became a mainstream media concern in the United States with the events at Columbine High School in 1999…

Highly recommed you check it out if you into graphic novels. I never get tierd of lookign at the beautifully crafted panels and meticulous illustration and ink work.

BUY

I particularly like the clean typography, use of colour and the detailed digital illustrations printed on the vellum sheet of the second invites.

A ton of fashion loveliness over here as well > http://www.pomegranita.com/

Although these days most carriers let you print your own badly designed pass with all the details on an A4 sheet.

By Tyler Thompson

By JJ at Graphicology

By Brent Gentile

By Davin Yoon

More > http://passfail.squarespace.com/

Sanjay is an animator and storyboard artist for Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on features that include Monsters, Inc., A Bugs Life; Toy Story 2; and The Incredibles. He has also worked on The Simpsons for Fox and with legendary cartoonist John K., creator of Ren and Stimpy.

Heres some of his most recent work:

Ramayana: Divine Loophole – BUY

The Little Book of Hindu Deities – BUY

An an interview: This Week: Sanjay Patel

> www.gheehappy.com

While searching for more resources i came across ProcessJunkie and the sexy/busty work of Lucio Alberto. Samples below.

His put up a fine posts with some figure drawing downloadable books. 
> The Best Figure Drawing Books Eve
Check each book to form your own opinions on which technique works for you.

His blog has got a selection of his own work, wide selection of other illustrators by and a ton of books. All in a wide variety of styles.

2 artists that blew me away with their character work were:

JOSE LOPEZ

Image from BrandStudio

> More from this book

Award winning character design for clients such as Google, DC comics, Activision, TMNT, Warner Bros. (The Batman), Cartoon Network…

> Buy Mariachi Samurai Book
> Buy 4:00 AM Book

BRANDON RAGNAR JOHNSON

These images are from Big City

> Buy Big City Book

The set starts out with some lovely mellow old skool jazz and then develops to more improv session stuff that gets a little obscure in the build up. Building to a sort of calamity of sounds but it smooths out nicely near the end part… worth a listen.

They got some sweet sets up there and nice site design and art direction by Sougwen Chung.

Whats Lovestep? Def want to check out that set

After the fall of Virgin Comics and India’s Gotham Entertainment ,
Vimanika Comics is set to do a much better job with strong stories and stunning artwork. Can’t wait to check more of they stuff out.

Times interview with Karan Vir Arora, editor-in-chief of Vimanika Comics
Also check out Selling Books vs Promoting Indian Culture

Karna Statue crafted for the winner of the  Sketch Karna contest winner

The tracks are dark & subtle with deep base, space and texture laced all over.

Heres how the cover artwork developed:

Initial sadhu sketch

Edited and digitally painted + devi lamps

Stars / Cosmic background detail

Spine aged texture

Recommended typography and layout – Click image to view larger or cilc here

Labels 1 and 2 of 4
The labels were eventually changed to the generic Deepmedi labels to keep inline with the record label.

Final edited sleeve 

You can here the rest of the tracks > Here

If you into your dubstep then also check out the beautiful Natural Mystic previously featured on the Cabein Blog.

> www.myspace.com/vivek321
> www.deepmedi.com