INKTOBER: 2019 - Birds of Bangalore

Inktober is a month-long art challenge started by Utah based illustrator Jake Parker, wherein every day for the month of October, a participating artist creates an ink drawing and posts it online. While I'm not one for internet drawing challenges, I look at the whole exercise as an excuse to initiate these little series of drawings on subjects that are close to my heart. It's regular practice, doesn't need a lot of thought and all in all, a lot of fun.

For 2018, I did a series on the #FlowersOfBangalore wherein I drew 31 different flowers found (not necessarily native) in Bangalore, in my own stylized way. For 2019, last year, I decided to take up #BirdsOfBangalore. The idea was to draw as many birds as I could in my free time, while working on other commissioned projects. I only managed a total of 7 drawings in the month of October; I sold these original drawings framed in some beautiful pinewood the same month. I always wanted to complete the series. As of today, I have.

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01. Tickell's Flowerpecker

02. Red-whiskered Bulbul

03. Large Pied Wagtail

04. House Sparrow

05. Small Green Barbet

06. Asian Koel

07. Great Tit

08. Red-vented Bulbul

09. Brahminy Starling

10. Oriental White-eye

11. White-throated Kingfisher

12. Pied Bushchat

13. Common Myna

14. Purple Sunbird

15. Common Tailor-bird

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All the drawings have been hand-drawn using a Sakura Pigma Micron 001 on a premium, cold-pressed paper. The papers used in the drawings 08, 09 & 10 have also been marbled (at home) using DIY techniques.

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LISTS: Favourite Music • 1991

These lists are a way of documenting my favourite music, cinema, literature, art and (at some point, writing about them) thus, building an online archive of stuff that I could always go back to. Please know that the lists are all work-in-progress and will keep changing. They have been arranged alphabetically and follow no order or preference.

This is a list of some of my favourite music released in 1991, the year I was born.

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Band - Album Title (genre)

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7seconds - Old School (hardcore punk)
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (hip-hop)
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions (progressive thrash metal)
Anand Milind - Love (soundtrack)
Armia - Legenda (hardcore punk)
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation (heavy metal)
Asphyx - The Rack (death metal)
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (death metal)
Autopsy - Mental Funeral (death-doom metal)
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods (black metal)
Bikini Kill - Revolution Grrrl Style Now (riot grrrl)
Birdland - Birdland (power pop)
Brad Fiedel - Judgement Day (soundtrack)
Breathless - Between Happiness and Heartache (dreampop)
Cancer - Death Shall Rise (death metal)
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth (death metal)
Carbonized - For The Security (death-grind metal)
Carcass - Necroticism, Descanting The Insalubrious (death metal)
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium (doom metal)
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool (shoegaze)
Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost (heavy metal)
Coil - Love's Secret Domain (post-industrial)
Confessor - Condemned (progressive metal)
Convulse - World Without God (death metal)
Coroner - Mental Vortex (thrash metal)
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind (sludge metal)
Cows - Peacetika (noise rock)
Cul De Sac - ECIM (kraut rock)
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal (thrash metal)
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey (death metal)
Dead Moon - Stranded in the Mystery Zone (punk rock)
Death - Human (death metal)
Death Side - Bet On The Possibility (crust punk)
Death Strike - Fuckin' Death (death metal)
Deceased - Luck of the Corpse (death metal)
Devastation - Idolatry (thrash metal)
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind (alternative rock)
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream (death metal)
Dr. Phibes and The House of Wax Equations - Whirlpool (psychedelic rock)
Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu (post-hardcore)
Dunaj - Rosol (avant-garde rock)
Entombed - Clandestine (death metal)
Evildead - The Underworld (thrash metal)
Flyte Reaction - Songs in a Circle (psychedelic rock)
Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs in E Minor (sludge metal)
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing (post-hardcore)
Goatlord - Reflections Of The Solstice (death-doom metal)
Gorefest - Mindloss (death metal)
Gorguts - Considered Dead (death metal)
Grave - Into The Grave (death metal)
Hali Gali Halid - Vo-zdra (psychedelic rock)
Howard Shore - The Silence of the Lambs (soundtrack)
Hermann Kopp, Daktari Lorenz & John Boy Walton - Nekromantik (soundtrack)
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider (heavy metal)
Immolation - Dawn of Possession (death metal)
Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow (metallic hardcore)
Jack Frost - Jack Frost (jangle pop)
Jawbox - Grippe (post-hardcore)
John Prine - The Missing Years (americana)
John Williams - Hook (soundtrack)
Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home (singer-songwriter)
Julain Cope - Peggy Suicide (psychedelic rock)
Kenso - Yume No Oka (jazz-prog rock)
Kyuss - Wretch (stoner rock)
Leatherface - Mush (punk rock)
Leeway - Desperate Measures (crossover thrash metal)
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments (death metal)
Man Is The Bastard - Sum of the Men, The Brutality Continues... (powerviolence)
Massacra - Enjoy The Violence (death metal)
Massacre - From Beyond (death metal)
Master - On The Seventh Day God Created... Master (death metal)
Master's Hammer - Ritual (black metal)
Melvins - Bullhead (sludge rock)
Messiah - Choir of Horrors (death metal)
Metallica - Metallica (heavy metal)
Michael Jackson - Dangerous (pop)
Milk - Tantrum (noise rock)
Monster Magnet - Spine of God (stoner rock)
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (death metal)
Morgoth - Cursed (death metal)
Motorhead - 1916 (hard rock)
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (avant-garde rock)
My Blood Valentine - Loveless (shoegaze)
Nadeem Shravan - Saajan (soundtrack)
Nation of Ulysses - 13-point Program To Destroy America (post-hardcore)
Ningen Isu - Sakura No Mori No Mankai No Shita (heavy metal)
Nirvana - Nevermind (alternative rock)
NoMeansNo - 0+2 = 1 (post-hardcore)
Nuclear Death - Carrion of Worms (death metal)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahbaaz (qawwali)
Overkill - Horrorscope (thrash metal)
Oxbow - King of the Jews (noise rock)
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude (psychedelic rock)
Painkiller - Guts of a Virgin (grindcore jazz)
Paradise Lost - Gothic (death-doom metal)
Pearl Jam - Ten (alternative rock)
Pennywise - Pennywise (skate punk)
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients (death metal)
Protector - A Shredding Of Skin (thrash metal)
Raam Laxman - 100 Days (soundtrack)
Revelation - Salvations Answer (traditional doom metal)
Revenant - Prophecies of A Dying World (death metal)
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead (death metal)
Robert Wyatt - Dondestan (prog rock)
Sacrifice - Soldiers of Misfortune (thrash metal)
Sadistik Exekution - The Magus (death metal)
Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge (thrash metal)
Sepultura - Arise (thrash metal)
Shiv Kumar Sharma & Hariprasad Chaurasia - Lamhe (soundtrack)
Shudder To Think - Funeral At The Movies (post-hardcore)
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind (hard rock)
Sleep - Volume One (sludge metal)
Slint - Spiderland (post-rock)
Slowdive - Just For A Day (shoegaze)
Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow (traditional doom)
Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales (death metal)
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (alternative rock)
Spacemen 3 - Recurring (psychedelic rock)
Strobe - See Beyond The Sun (psychedelic rock)
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten (death metal)
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (goth rock)
Swervedriver - Raise (shoegaze)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (post-rock)
Tar - Jackson (noise rock)
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (alternative rock)
The Field Mice - For Keeps (dreampop)
The Jesus Lizard - Goat (noise rock)
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension (psychedelic rock)
The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (traditional doom metal)
Therion - Of Darkness (death metal)
Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard (goth metal)
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells (death metal)
Unsane - Unsane (noise rock)
Vermonster - Instinctively Inhuman (psychedelic rock)
Xysma - Yeah! (death metal)

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RELEASE: 'aswekeepsearching' poster • Rooh Album Launch Tour • India

aswekeepsearching is a four-piece post-rock band from Pune, India. The band recently released their third full-length album titled Rooh. I had the opportunity of drawing the cover art for the album. What I also did was draw an extended version of the art as a poster for their album launch tour that spanned for (close to) two months.

Official tour poster for aswekeepsearching.

The idea for the poster came from the band's name and an exploration of what that 'place' might look like. It belongs to the same universe as the cover art, in fact it's an extension of it. The poster is now available as a screen-print on my store.

These posters are two-colour serigraphs expertly hand-pulled/printed by Pritam Arts on 130gsm Plike Black paper. The band logo has been screen-printed using a silver ink that's got a beautiful shine to it. All posters come signed and hand-numbered by the artist that is I (not the band). There's only 50 copies of the poster. Once sold out, this edition won't be printed again. You'll find all the details below.

'aswekeepsearching' poster

Regular Edition 

16.5" x 23"

Plike Black 130gsm paper.

Two-colour serigraph (oil based).

Printed by Pritam Arts, IN.
Limited edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist.

Visit anoopkbhat.in/store to snag a copy. Indian customer may head straight to instamojo.com/anoopkbhat

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Note: All items shall be shipped within 15 days of receiving the order. Please visit the store to see close-up shots of the print and other relevant details.