Member created artwork-Geo-Political Cartoons etc..

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 27 Aug 2010 07:33

Please post your artwork in this thread as a repository. Please limit it to geo-political commentary eg. TSP, US, PRC etc.
Do not post political cartoons on India.

Thanks for your efforts.

ramana

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 08:11

By KrishG

KrishG wrote: I don't have a scanner so I uploaded a photo of my drawing.......

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 08:12

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 08:15

Anujan wrote:Well, I cant draw as well as you guys. Nevertheless, here is my attempt:

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 08:15

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 08:16

Gagan wrote:X bosted:

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 27 Aug 2010 19:55

A wonderful idea for a thread. Amazing we haven't done it before. I have always had ideas for political cartoons in mind, but never had the talent to draw a stick, let alone something more elaborate. Are the artists open to creative collaboration, I mean if an idea is described precisely, to render it into a cartoon medium? No credit for the idea supplier required.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Aug 2010 20:23

Thanks JEM-saar, if you have an idea (however half-formed), just throw it into this thread (or sent a mail to my BENIS id).....

Suppiah · Post by **Suppiah** » 27 Aug 2010 20:39

I have an idea...shall try and make them into cartoons - but other willing mujahids can copy them freely if desired...

1. Death to America sign held by Pakbarian-animal-in-rage replaced with BEG to America sign
2. Pakbarian jehadi holding 'India is stealing our water' swept away by flood, half drowning.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 27 Aug 2010 21:02

OK, here's one:

An army officer holding gun to his own head tells Uncle Sam "help me or else" ...
An Talib holding a gun to Uncle Sam's head saying "help him or else"
With his free hand, the army officer is passing on a wad of notes to the Talib.
Talib has a suitably crazy bug-eyed look, while Army officer has a "hamid gul" look with Kayani's racoon eyes.
In the corner a loinclothed bearded mango abdul on his hands and knees holds a begging bowl plaintively

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 28 Aug 2010 00:07

Menon sir!!

All you need is some training in art work and you will become an excellent cartoonist for geo political issues. Can we please add a Copyright to these cartoons? (BR or artist name or something?)

Sandeep

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 28 Aug 2010 07:53

Allright, JEM-saar, I got a bit deviated, but I hope I caught the gist?

Suppiah-saar, go for it!!

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 28 Aug 2010 12:23

nairgolis, a very nice one in its own right... though not quite what I had in mind. I know. Very difficult to describe, or to translate into drawing, something which someone who has no sketching skills dreams up.

Let me try to "draw" it

and post it here, and somebody can see if it is worth prettifying.

Sandeep, dude, you have no idea how poor my drawing skills are!!! I fear I'm a lost cause in this. Funny thing is I have (or so I think) good cartoon ideas. But now you've germinated an idea that instead of describing it (poorly it seems), I should draw it however poorly I can and someone else can prettify

(Note: Guys no need for sir, garu, ji etc. for me. It is not that I mind specifically or am being pretentious or something, and I really appreciate all that it implies. It is just that I myself never remember to use these honorifics - and to be honest have some discomfort using them especially towards people who expect it - and I don't want to cause offense in any way by forgetting to return the favour).

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 28 Aug 2010 20:29

Thanks to SanjayM for the link:

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/

folks can use this tool to get to next step of political cartooning.

Rudradev, Can you consider updating photochor flash animation using this tool?

JEM, There are inexpensive books on learning to draw using pencil and paper. Next step is to take those instructions using a graphics program. Three to four weeks should do it.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 29 Aug 2010 15:05

Boss, I simply have no skill... to draw... I can do basic, having tried quite a bit... but it doesn't look anything worthwhile... need someone more skillful to polish it up ... Here is what I was trying to convey... It is about the 4th time I redrew so I could convey what i wanted to say to someone who can do it better without changing the essentials...

Clicky

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 29 Aug 2010 16:58

SBajwa wrote:Menon sir!!

All you need is some training in art work and you will become an excellent cartoonist for geo political issues. Can we please add a Copyright to these cartoons? (BR or artist name or something?)

Sandeep

I guess that if the cartoonists want copyright - that must be added. But copyright is a hindrance to free spread of a message.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 31 Aug 2010 12:51

JEM-saar (honorific is purely tongue in cheek), hope I got some of what you wanted ?
Me being non-state, is highly unmanageable. So kindlee adjust onlee....

(btw, great drawing of yours', so I did not have to do much)

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 31 Aug 2010 13:04

Couple of humble suggestions + points
1) the ones I draw are free to forward, use and print. That is the whole point: free dissemination of illustrations of pakistaniyat
2) I dont do Ad Hom...whatever, attacks, but here goes.... am sure he has his uses, but anyone who brings in Sanjay M into a thread are not being serious. So please do not attract him here or this will become a spam thread for irrelevant crap like that Indian Space thread. And if that happens, I am done.
3) One pencil, one eraser and a sharpie/pilot pen are all one needs.

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 31 Aug 2010 13:13

hnair,

Is it acceptable to you, if the sketches are sent ot indian news media. For wider publication. Not that they will publish it but just in case.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 31 Aug 2010 13:14

of course!!

enqyoob · Post by **enqyoob** » 31 Aug 2010 15:02

Fab cartoons. Of course with Pakistan, real life pictures (as shown on BENIS) are always 10 steps ahead of what any cartoonist can dream.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 31 Aug 2010 20:07

Hnair Excellent work. You have great future in Cartoonist profession

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 01 Sep 2010 01:18

Hnair, excellent stuff... this is what I had in mind ... I will post more ideas as they come to me.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Sep 2010 01:25

OK. I remember my old request.
We have uncle sam character slapping a jihadi in TSPA uniform who in turn slaps a SDRE in dhoti and uncle sam holds him back with the other hand.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 01 Sep 2010 19:44

How about a Gubo Cartoon describing the current situation of naPakistan? Milking all type of disasters/terroristic acts/cricket matches/etc for money by Pakistani leaders (10% Zardari and Sharif Bandhus) which promptly gets diverted to palaces in France, Dubai, NY, London, etc? I don't know how to put this into pictures.

A Zardari/Sharif Devil Grim Reaper type character thinking of "money making oppurtunity" at every natural or man created disaster, with future disasters in front of him while the gone are under his sickle (behind him)?

jagga · Post by **jagga** » 01 Sep 2010 21:02

Hnair, excellent Work.

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 02 Sep 2010 00:39

Here is a site which allows you to directly make simple 3D movies online:

http://www.xtranormal.com/

For the purposes of this thread, the features should be quite adequate.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 02 Sep 2010 23:02

Geo-Political Poems are also Art, right?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 02 Sep 2010 23:06

Hnair, is it possible to have cartoon of Mahesh Bhatt talking to NPR after the 2006 Mumbai train blasts saying "we deserve it!" and his son Rahul cavorting with DCH and scouting targets for Mumbai 26/11/2008 terrorist attack?

archan · Post by **archan** » 02 Sep 2010 23:38

I think this thread is for member created artwork. Please keep it free of all other things. The posts here should be of the type:

a) ideas given by members
b) artwork by the members
c) congratulatory posts if anyone likes the work, though they should be kept at a minimum. We all know and greatly appreciate the fabulous job.

other than this, if anyone wishes to help using links etc., they should have first hand experience using those external tools and show how they can be helpful to this thread's purpose.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 04 Sep 2010 16:54

Has anyone seen this

- some of the words are not pronounced correctly, but still...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdk_JfRhTPM

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 04 Sep 2010 17:18

A version with slightly improved pronounciation - if distributing, send this one to friends, families, pakisatans, etc...

No attribution needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqxvUAC6qWM

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 04 Sep 2010 20:45

JE Menon wrote:A version with slightly improved pronounciation - if distributing, send this one to friends, families, pakisatans, etc...

No attribution needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqxvUAC6qWM

I just wonder if anyone on this forum might be able to tell me what software was used. I could use it too perhaps?

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 04 Sep 2010 21:05

shiv wrote: I just wonder if anyone on this forum might be able to tell me what software was used. I could use it too perhaps?

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 04 Sep 2010 21:37

Nifty stuff, guys. I forgot to mention that because the text-to-speech translation is simple and english-based, you should try to spell things phonetically.

"Pakistan" --> "Pahkisstahn"
"Hindu" --> "Hindoo"
etc, etc

Feel free to use strategically placed additional punctuations, phonetic spelling, etc, to modulate the flow of the speech to your liking. Some experimentation may be required for best results.

KrishG · Post by **KrishG** » 06 Sep 2010 22:00

My this week's quota ..............
Again, I don't have scanner so uploaded a photo of it. I will try to get it scanned later....

Should have added two additional comments--
Flying Angel : Meine kucchh Kiya-nahi
Mango Abdul : Jehaard on Kaffir Yindoos!

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 06 Sep 2010 22:56

Haha, cool!

It would be nice if this thread could be converted into a poll thread, so that we could vote on the funniest entry!

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 22 Sep 2010 13:42

For the great artists of BRF, another idea.

A scene:
On the one side (say the right side) we have an Indian politician with the Nehru Topi sitting and sewing some cloth on the sewing machine. Some high-nosed Britisher (British Raj style) is looking over his shoulder giving him some instructions.

In front of them we have three Indians on the floor, sitting, lying, squirming all looking in the other direction, with some pain in their faces as if when gets kicked. The Indians can be distinguished from each other perhaps by topis, mustaches, etc. They belong to IPS, Indian Armed Services, IAS/IFS etc. They are all wearing straitjackets.

One can see that the Indian politician is sewing straitjackets.

On the other side of the cartoon (say the left side) a TSPA General, a PLA General are kicking the 3 Indians on the floor, with a Talibanic dude placing a bomb under the face of the tied down IPS officer.

Just an idea!

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 29 Sep 2010 20:27

X-post..

Lalmohan wrote:^^^ i get the feeling that the paquis have stepped back from "we must have kashmir" to "we'll be happy if kashmir is independent" in their gubo sessions with amirkhan. dragonbhai is smirking in the wings holding the vasel-ed-din jar

Can someone draw up a jihadi general, uncle sam and fu man chu type holding the jar?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 23 Oct 2010 21:01

The dilemma of Partition is that while India has used the chance to modernize and leap into the 21st Century, the TSP has reverted to a pre-modern no progress version of ideology and has become a shackle with a millstone on India's legs.

Can some one cartoon this?