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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Thank you everyone for your continued love and support. It means a lot!  

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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Thank you for reading.