My Art-folio

Artworks I do in my free time.

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Akira

I have been a big fan of anime films & shows for years. Recently during quarantine, I got the chance to catch up on some classic anime films and one of those was Akira. The action sequences, storyline, characters, and the voice acting were all superb and not a single dull moment in the movie. The designs were all very creative. I was amazed at the details in animation especially with the limitations back then. The more I read about this, the more I understand how this film reimagined the cyberpunk genre and paved the way for other Japanese cyberpunk anime series and various sci-fi related franchises.

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Napoleon Dynamite

Watched this movie few months back, and loved it so much, I decided to do a sketch based on the titular character. It’s my first time trying out a caricature style art. I went with an overall bleak simplistic look that captures the essence of the movie.

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Miss you Chester

Linkin Park has been a big part of my childhood, and mostly because of Chester’s amazing vocals and his signature screams. I still remember hearing my first LP song Numb from Meteora, and immediately falling in love with this band. LP had been the gateway to rock music for me. 3 years later and his loss still hits me hard whenever I listen to old LP songs and hear his voice.

I started this tribute artwork a year back, progressing slowly. Added comic book style dark outlines to Chester and his tattoos. On the suggestion of my good friend @akilaweera3, I added black spacing on top and bottom, and the muddy grungy background to look like Meteora album cover. He applied the finishing touches and text styling with the hybrid theory soldier logo.

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Death Note

I recently caught up on Death Note anime, which is absolutely amazing and thrilling from start to finish. It also provides a satisfying conclusion. I’m not usually a big anime watcher, but I do occasionally check them out from recommendations, and this is one that I would recommend to anyone who haven’t watched it or anyone getting into anime for the first time.

Briefly Death Note is the story of Light Yagami, a student who comes across a supernatural otherworldly notebook, which grants the user the power to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. Light uses this notebook to rid the world of evil and create an utopian society without crime, styling himself as the god-like vigilante named "Kira" (meaning killer). Meanwhile a task force is created to investigate and bring down Kira with the help of “L”, a mysterious international detective. The story ultimately becomes a game of Kira vs L, who try to get ahead and defeat each other. Ryuk the Shinigami, who the notebook belongs to, is just an interested observer of these events and on neither side. He drops the notebook into the human world, out of boredom, and follows as Light’s companion, seeing events as it unfolds.

Time taken: 7 hrs approx.

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"Let it be fear” - Daenerys

I’m pretty sure the transition to ‘Mad Queen’ will be handled way better in the upcoming ASOIAF books, if this is what GRRM has intended for this character. The show rushed to make Dany’s transition with only 1 episode remaining, that it didn’t care about seasons of character buildup and throws it all away in that moment. Dany decides that the only way to assert her ‘claim’ to the Iron Throne and to prevent any future betrayals, is by fear (and fire & blood of course). I feel like this could have been done gradually in the last season so that it would be expected that she would do something like that.

Nevertheless, I’m happy that the journey comes to an end and thankful that we would be seeing GRRM’s story coming to a conclusion in some version for the finale. It will be a while before we see another TV show extraordinary as GOT. So glad that I was introduced to this show (during the airing of S4) which in turn got me interested in the books and the world of ice and fire. Eagerly waiting for The Winds of Winter!

Time taken: 6 hrs approx.

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

I recently watched Bandersnatch and absolutely enjoyed the ‘choose your adventure’ type of interactive film; a good gimmick from Netflix. Black Mirror has been one of my all time favorite television anthology series, and I found Bandersnatch to be weirdly thrilling. Each ending was more bizarre than the last. I decided this for my first artwork of 2019.

I added the glass crack from the black mirror title logo to show the mental state of Stefan as he loses his mind and control gradually. Also the ‘white bear’ logo (an easter egg from a previous BM episode) to indicate the branching path that Stefan notices for each of the different game story-lines.

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Smaug - The King Under the Mountain

Although I wouldn’t count the Hobbit trilogy as the best compared to the far superior LOTR trilogy, I would still recommend it to any Tolkien/Peter Jackson fan. Of course Desolation of Smaug, which introduced the primary antagonist himself Smaug, is my favorite one of the trilogy. I watched it on the first day and was in shock & awe as I saw Smaug in his full glory for the first time after seeing glimpses in the first part. Absolutely spectacular creature design by Weta Workshop. Smaug did truly looked like a living breathing creature instead of a CGI creation. This was drawn about 2 years back. I wanted to include the lonely mountain as well, where Smaug resided for almost 2 centuries before being woken by Thorin and Co.

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Jesus & Gloria

I have been a huge fan of Green Day, who are one of the greatest punk-rock bands of all time. American Idiot & 21st Century Breakdown are 2 of my most favorite albums from them. Having listened to the American Idiot Broadway musical as well, I was fascinated by the concept story of both albums, and therefore decided on a piece of the characters from each album. I added a more grunge-y background look for the two (Green for Green Day obviously and orange as its keeping up with the album color of 21CB).

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American Idiot follows the central character Jesus of Suburbia, a lower middle class teen (probably a musician I guess) who leaves for the city as he is fed up of his small town and those closer to him. He meets someone there who he calls ‘St Jimmy’ (who might be a drug dealer but also a violent split personality he created from the drug addiction), also meets a woman (Whatsername), falls in and out of love, realizes he’s become worse like St Jimmy, so comes back home again.

21st Century Breakdown loosely follows 2 characters Christian and Gloria; two young lovers on the run. They are both sold out by the church, the state and every adult they’ve ever believed in. Christian is the impulsive, self-destructive one, while Gloria’s more idealistic and political. They’re forced to take care of each other because they have no one else. I recommend referring this for more detailed track by track explanation (https://www.reddit.com/r/greenday/comments/2gmepg/21st_century_breakdown_story/cklcqa8/) and to listen to both of these albums.

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Godzilla

My No.1 favorite movie monster of all time. I really loved the redesign of the 2014 Godzilla which stayed true to the original Japanese version but with a more realistic look. Thought of coloring it initially, but in the end was satisfied with the outcome.

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Tuk Tuk Hero

The Lanka Comic Con is an annual comic convention held in Sri Lanka (http://www.lankacomiccon.lk/). What started off as a small facebook group for comic book/movie enthusiasts has now grown into a huge passionate geek community. The first lanka comic con was held in 2015, and has since gained lot of support both locally and internationally, and expanded into one of must-gather place for geeks of all ages.

The amazing event mascot named “Tuk Tuk Hero” was designed by two of my good friends @akilaweera3 & Harith (https://www.behance.net/harithdilanka). This is my slightly different take on the TukTuk hero’s costume. Originally planned to omit the cape, but I’m loving it now.

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District 9

One of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time and a really unique story. Next year would be its 10th anniversary & I would really love to see a sequel to this someday. I changed my style a bit, and added thicker lines to try and emphasize the details of the ‘prawn’; a great creature design from Weta Workshop, who had done really amazing weapons, exoskeleton mechs, and the mothership designs in this movie.

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Return of the Joker!

The Joker is such an iconic character and of course I would not stop with just one drawing. Previously I had drawn the Suicide squad version (Link: https://sinthujank.tumblr.com/image/158357468137), and this is a comic book version of it based on an image I found online.  I had also chosen the font to closely resemble a bow-tie (idk, maybe).

NOTE: Apologies! Its been more than a year since my last post and this was actually drawn about a year ago. I had been really occupied with some personal stuff. However I will be uploading all of my past drawn art in the days that follows and probably some new stuff as well in the future. Cheers! :)

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Gorillaz

One of my favorite bands, and my first attempt of drawing the band’s virtual characters.

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Iron Man

Got the time to draw the character who started the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Added the title in post (with the addition of the arc reactor image) and used a dusk effect for the background.

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Serve the Empire

Had created the stormtrooper image a while back, deciding on how to finish until I came across a couple of related fan Stormtrooper recruitment posters. Gave me the idea of creating my own.

Time taken: approx. 1 hour

Font suggestion by @akilaweera3

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Rocket Racoon

Perfect timing to share my drawing of Rocket that I finished back in Jan, before the release of Vol. 2. Based on the poster of the first GoTG film.

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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

One of my all time favorite songs from Queen which is elegant and one of a kind. Glad to have started with them as my first music-related artwork (posters).