CoMeDy Of ErRoRs

Samples for a Book

2012-02-01T00:10:00.000+05:30

When there is a disagreement it's best to drop the project specially when the client simply says it doesn't work. I liked them and have no problems. So enjoy !!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

2012-01-21T13:48:00.001+05:30

Celebrations

2011-12-24T12:59:00.000+05:30

GREETINGS !!!

Book Illustration for Tulika Publishers

2011-12-22T14:26:00.000+05:30

Colour Pencil/ Photo Ink/Micro Tip pen and little photoshop. A long awaited Book. Enjoy!!!

Storyboards

2011-11-13T19:15:00.002+05:30

Storyboard for PARX Commercial .

Storyboard for Blackberrys Commercial.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

2011-10-31T09:46:00.000+05:30

18 Illustrative Headers and a Poster and a Banner done for Scholastic Book Fair.

Some random sketches

2011-10-25T10:45:00.007+05:30

Few glimpses of my pass-time.

Storyboards

2011-10-13T20:45:00.002+05:30

Storyboard for Rexona Commercial.

Storyboard for Nokia Commercial.

Concept Boards

2011-10-13T20:15:00.000+05:30

A quick Origami effect for a stop-motion commercial for Indian Express ( Agency : Leo Burnette, Delhi )

A concept board ( later made into an animatic ) for Tetra Pack pitch commercial for Leo Burnette , Delhi.

ELNAR AND ALIMA

2011-08-02T01:52:00.001+05:30

Its a a video done for the Wedding of one of the Sons of Royal Family, Kazakhistan.
In collaboration with StoryInc.Asia , Hongkong. A Project done in straight 30 days including pre-production till post.The length of the animation is 6 mins. It was a herculean task which some what ended in this sort of work. It could have been much better if time permitted and money took the front seat. :) cheers !!!

AXN Action AWARD packaging

2011-06-08T21:33:00.006+05:30

Show packaging.
Director: Vasant Valsan
Design/Storyboard/Illustrations/Key frames : Priyankar Gupta
VFX : Grey Matter vfx .

UNNATI: BOOK ON HISTORY OF WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

2011-05-26T10:37:00.001+05:30

Some of the Illustration done for a book on Women's Movement for UNNATI Organization for Development Education , Ahmedabad.

Illustration Friday : Soaked

2011-05-23T19:09:00.000+05:30

A very common scene during the mighty summers !!!

Press ad for Lokmat

2011-05-14T16:10:00.000+05:30

Press ad for Lokmat. Each balcony came as a separate panel.

Illustration Friday : Safari

2011-05-14T03:14:00.000+05:30

A special Safari for the poachers !!! Enjoy...

A Pitch for Punjab Government

2011-05-10T11:05:00.000+05:30

Concept boards !!

150 years of excellence !!!

2011-05-09T15:44:00.000+05:30

Respect !!

Art work for a set design

2011-05-09T11:06:00.000+05:30

Art work done for a backdrop for a tv show.This was later painted in cut out forms by the cinema poster painters.The feel had to be a little 70's film poster look. Enjoy !!

Sample Illustration

2011-05-07T14:25:00.000+05:30

A sample for a Book Illustration.

Some treatments

2011-05-01T11:11:00.005+05:30

Some look and feel for an animation commercial which never worked out due to budget issue.

Caricatures and Portraits for IN.com

2011-05-01T11:00:00.002+05:30

Enjoy !!!

A Good Deed : A short story by Chris Veerabadran

2011-04-11T22:24:00.000+05:30

A recently done book illustrations. Enjoy !!!

Card

2011-04-07T00:05:00.001+05:30

A card for the rice eating ceremony for a relatives grandson :)

INVITE FOR MY CONJUGAL CARNIVAL

2010-12-08T20:11:00.000+05:30

INVITATION FOR ALL !!!

Calendar Illustration

2010-12-08T15:25:00.000+05:30

Set of Illustrations done for the annual Calendar for Chhattisgarh Tourism . Although the final calendar doesnt have many of these due to difference of opinion as always :) .

Enroute to Raigarh

2010-11-25T18:49:00.000+05:30

One of those never ending train journeys and I had to kill time. I did it with a brush pen and a gel pen. Enjoy !!

" When they painted their masterpiece "

2010-11-06T21:20:00.000+05:30


An exercise to enhance painting skills copying a master piece in a different master's style.

Making simplified portraits of batchmates taking their attributes and archetypes

Studying a space and visualizing a point of view of a bird/cat/dog. An added element or giving a different look to the space was also a part of the brief.

Making illustration or a one frame gag based on given Idioms.

Illustrating a set of five postcards and a State, food/language/natural resource map with the help of croquil and ink as a tool.

Illustrating the Story Toba Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto.


Making a illustrative poster on the endangered species of the mother earth.

It was a roller coaster ride for three weeks with a bunch of fifteen colourful personalities of second year animation batch of my alma mater. Its been three years I'm taking illustration course but perhaps this is the first time I actually managed to document each and every of the students work. It was of course a learning experience for me too as they made mistakes and made an effort to overcome the mistake. It was a mix bag of skilled/workaholic/lazy/lackluster personae. This is an effort to put some of the works together and reflection of my teaching abilites. The Class comprised of :
Ketki
Neerav
Aakansha
Nilomee
Mayura
Swathi
Venkatraman
Wangdan
Kirat
Abhishek
Ishika
Esha
Arushi
Neer
Rabindra

" To learn and never be filled is wisdom ; to teach and never be weary is love " .
Cheers to the cinema of wonders !!!!

Some Recent Storyboards

2010-09-28T11:19:00.000+05:30

Bollywood

2010-09-23T22:33:00.002+05:30

For the love of Bollywood and its showbiz.I still love it for the entertainment it gave me through out. Cheers !!

CHICKENS

2010-09-09T13:18:00.000+05:30

You may call it obsession !!! Yes Belafonte songs are obsessions for me as I have grown up listening to them. Here's a humble effort. The rendition of the "Chicken" song. Feels nice to be back in loving terms with Animation almost after five years. Feedbacks are always welcomed. Cheers !!!

Illustration Friday : Immovable

2010-08-30T21:14:00.000+05:30

The senior citizens (cows/ox/ rest of the bovine fraternity) act as if the road is there's. Traffic jams are a part and parcel of the BIG city blues :). A little exaggerated expression for this weeks post. Enjoy !! thanks.

Storyboard for a Show Packaging

2010-08-23T22:02:00.000+05:30

Storyboard for a Show Packaging. " Find out the Beast in you "....that was the brief from the client !!

Illustrations Friday : Star Gazing

2010-08-15T15:02:00.000+05:30

Can we actual gaze starts ??? The Day will come when people will reach the clouds through the thick cloud of pollution to gaze the stars....Its alarming !!!

Illustration Friday : Caged

2010-08-09T23:37:00.000+05:30

"All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Visualization for a music video

2010-07-22T15:06:00.000+05:30

Eristoff Vodka

2010-07-14T01:00:00.001+05:30

Illustrations for Eristoff Vodka T-shirts...well tried different digital brushes, finally the client chose to scrap the idea of their Logo Wolf and go ahead with tag lines on tees.

Illustration Friday : Giant

2010-07-03T14:42:00.002+05:30

As a kid I was often haunted by giant shadows following me. Specially after watching films like King-kong and those "oversized-monster-roaming-in-the-city" kind of flicks !!!

Some recent Storyboards

2010-07-01T15:08:00.003+05:30

Recently done boards for some commercials.Quick works..most of them !!

Illustration Friday : Ripple

2010-06-12T02:48:00.000+05:30

Thats all i could think when i thought about ripple as a topic ;

Full fathom five thy father lies;
    Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
    Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
        Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them - ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare

Illustration Friday : Trail

2010-06-08T13:39:00.000+05:30

Just a thought...

Illustration Friday : Slither

2010-05-30T04:09:00.000+05:30

It slithers through the shallow stream...waiting for its next kill !!!!

Illustration Friday : Early

2010-05-30T03:11:00.000+05:30

Though topic is "early" i was late to post it. A thought came to my mind as I happen to flip through the pages of Art History , that EARLY man really had a photographic memory as they displayed their hunting scenes on the ceilings of the cold caves...unlike the trained senors :) . No wonder Picasso said " After Altamira, all is decadence " . Enjoy !!!

We call them outlaws

2010-05-03T10:45:00.001+05:30

Marina Beach, Chennai

2010-04-16T23:24:00.003+05:30

Rapid sketches done while teaching in chennai. Had fun with bold brown sketch pen and a gel pen :) after a long time. Paper is still the best.

Illustration for Elementary English for Scholastic India

2010-04-16T13:26:00.000+05:30

THE WEEK : Courage to Go Beyond

2010-03-09T00:56:00.012+05:30

Publicity campaign done for THE WEEK magazine in a motion comics style.The preproduction design , storyboard , look and feel and the illustrations are done by me. Colouring by Delwyn and composited by Fuel FX,Famous studios. Enjoy !!

COVER for THE IDIOM book

2010-03-04T18:59:00.002+05:30

Illustrations for a book of IDIOMS

2010-03-02T23:03:00.002+05:30

Moodboard illustrations for Burn cold drink

2010-03-02T22:09:00.002+05:30

Cover for Daddy Long Legs : Scholastic India

2010-02-24T12:36:00.001+05:30

Storyboard for Shriram Insight

2010-02-23T11:33:00.004+05:30

Cover Options for Four Just Men : Scholastic,India

2010-02-22T11:31:00.004+05:30

Oscar Wilde series for Scholastic

2010-02-08T23:55:00.003+05:30

Illustration done for two books of Oscar Wilde ; " The Happy Prince" and The Canterville Ghost "

Flashy Stuff

2010-01-31T20:11:00.001+05:30

Some flashy characters done for a project which never saw the light of the day.Felt like sharing!!! Enjoy !!!

Illustration Friday : Renewal

2010-01-03T18:54:00.004+05:30

HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO ALL MY BLOG VISITORS,FRIENDS, FELLOWMATES etc etc..... its my first post of this year.I guess every year we get renewed by some one who watches us and stamps us from one year to the other safe and sound.Even I'm renewed this year.May be I'm lucky or may be I'm cynic.As you move ahead in life you keep getting renewals and some don't, every year.

cheers

Illustration Friday : Hatch

2009-12-12T21:20:00.002+05:30

CAN you really count "your" chickens before they hatch !!! just a satire on population !!

I LIKE BIRDS

2009-12-05T00:03:00.001+05:30

digital collage!!

Illustration Friday : Entangled

2009-12-01T04:06:00.002+05:30

Enjoy !!!

Illustration Friday : Music

2009-11-22T14:28:00.001+05:30

“Music is what feelings sound like.” Enjoy !!!

KURBAAN : some glimpses of the storyboard

2009-11-21T12:35:00.004+05:30

A much awaited work , which i did last year for the film Kurbaan directed by Rensil d'silva....some parts of the mammoth board.Enjoy !

Illustration Friday : Unbalanced

2009-11-15T03:58:00.002+05:30

...was in a very slapstick mood today to create something like this ! Enjoy

Book Covers for Scolastic India

2009-11-12T22:49:00.002+05:30

Illustration Friday : Blur

2009-11-11T12:19:00.003+05:30

... Curled up ! as the blurry misty winter morning caresses them ...

Sketchy

2009-11-07T23:12:00.002+05:30

More marriages more cards

2009-11-07T18:57:00.007+05:30

Its a marriage season so the love birds are getting knotted by the holy "social" knot. Although this activity is not in focus in my life but I enjoy making the invites for others and ofcourse the food and the function :).

Charge

2009-10-27T21:23:00.001+05:30

Drawn in flash coloured in photoshop.

Illustration Friday : Fast

2009-10-26T02:04:00.002+05:30

Mumbai !!!perhaps one of the fastest city in India...have a habit of noticing the way pair of legs march , run and dashes through the crowd into their own respective destination or rather vanishes amidst social animals.
One of those days when you scan textures of your clothes and want to make a digital collage. Enjoy !!!

Barking dogs seldom bite

2009-10-22T13:41:00.003+05:30

just a thought ...

Sins

2009-10-22T02:06:00.004+05:30

Left Lino cut back in art college .... but couldnt forget the distribution of contrasting colours...computer makes it much easy though !!!

Frozen : Illustration Friday

2009-10-17T18:59:00.002+05:30

A personal experience... sometimes natural really plays tricks with us.enjoy !!!

Marriage of two souls

2009-10-14T18:40:00.004+05:30

A representation of my drummer friend and his journalist wife...for their wedding card..... :)

Flying : Illustration Friday

2009-10-12T23:11:00.002+05:30

“To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”
Lord Byron

GQ : JULY ISSUE

2009-10-09T19:17:00.004+05:30

Illustration done for GQ sex coloumn

SUMMER TIME

2009-10-03T12:29:00.004+05:30

A CUT OUT CONCEPT FOR A CALENDER BASED ON KIDS FEELINGS ABOUT SEASONS....THOUGH MY EXPRESSION DIDN'T SUITE THE CLIENT'S :)(this was a sample )

KOLKATA DIARY : A PHOTO ESSEY

2009-10-02T11:44:00.002+05:30

I have seen these streets many a times , saw the people too yet never managed to capture them with my own camera till i got one recently....though i drew them lots.... A VENTURE THROUGH LANES OF MY OWN CITY...THE CITY OF JOY... enjoy !!!

KOLKATA DIARY : 1

2009-10-02T11:39:00.002+05:30

KOLKATA DIARY : 2

2009-10-02T11:30:00.003+05:30

KOLKATA DIARY :3

2009-10-02T11:22:00.003+05:30

KOLKATA DIARY : 4

2009-10-02T11:19:00.001+05:30

KOLKATA DIARY : 5

2009-10-02T11:17:00.000+05:30

KOLKATA DIARY : 6

2009-10-02T11:12:00.001+05:30

Gone in 30 seconds

2009-09-15T19:58:00.003+05:30

While my students were busy posing and sketching themselves...i too rolled my microtip pen in my sketchbook to capture these in 30 secs.

Learning To Fly

2009-09-15T12:20:00.004+05:30

Ode to Tom Petty...

AVES...

2009-09-15T00:25:00.005+05:30

Some birds drawn for a kids text books...rest of the illustrations were boring like the book itself....

WHAT THE FISH !!!!

2009-09-14T23:32:00.004+05:30

Doodle on the sketchbook cover...

The Hunchos

2009-09-14T21:38:00.002+05:30

A family of hunched people.....just some character design doodle....

Illustration Friday : Welcome

2009-09-14T18:57:00.003+05:30

I spent few years in a steel city in Bihar and everytime i would come back from my hometown after holidays the city WELCOMEd me in this manner. Perhaps its a very common scenario in any other town in India.Just outside the station the govt protected area receives a resident with potholes and road cracks.

Pepsi ad :My can My way

2009-09-14T14:48:00.003+05:30

Concept Board for a Pepsi ad.....entirely my visualization.

2009-09-14T14:41:00.000+05:30

They draw therefore they are...a memorable experience

2009-08-07T04:01:00.005+05:30

Good bye is too good a word...

It all ended with a display

Away from the hustle bustle of the main city of Coimbatore, amidst a plethora of greenery is the DJ academy of Design. I spent last three weeks in fun and frolic as I was trying to “preach” young minds to “look” or perhaps the Ways of seeing. My vocation as a teacher is driven by my simple passion for the subjects I blabber about all the time and feel confident. But it was a pretty different approach as the place was new so as the people. Teaching in the utopia called “NID”, my alma mater has been a cake walk as I’m too familiar and convinced with it. Nid has been always like, playing a cricket match in a rough spinning track of Indian soil, subjugating the opponent. DJ was too windy in literal sense to even swing the ball.

The start was surprisingly pleasant as I’m scared of heights so as flights. Inspite of the delayed flight, “Peanuts” the comic compilation of the strip made the Spice jet flight, spicier. The dusky Coimbatore, the Manchester of south welcomed me with open arms around 5 pm. Its was still a little sunny but answer was blowin’ in the wind that its going to pour very soon. Mr Jagan drove his maruthi van from the airport like a formula one racing car to cut short the one hr ride to the destination. I didn’t understand much what he conversed with me but one thing I inferred that my dinner will come to guest. The next day was the judgment day !!!

Next morning and after that all consecutive mornings a withered person may be some one who works at the institute came with breakfast at the guest house. I hardly managed to see him with eyes wide open as I was half asleep. As I was ready to leave for the institute I required a person to tell me the way. A guard with his rickety moped came to pick me up. It looked like a shot from some comedy film as he waggled his pet through muck and I almost escaped a fall into the puddle. I reached the studio safe!

The students were eagerly waiting for me. I felt embarrassed as they stood up as I entered. It reminded me of school or may be they still hold the school etiquette in them pretty well. They called me Sir, I felt even more embarrassed. But calling me by my name is a heck of a job for Non- Bengalis. All credits go to Bengali parents to name their children such heavy weight words. My name mispronounced or misinterpreted can be dangerous as my gender can change with a missing “R” or can sound something ridiculous. Addressing a teacher or a colleague mate by Sir/ Madam is long gone since I stepped into Nid and then the professional media world. Someone called me by my initials. A new avatar was born named P.G. Although P.G can sometimes sound like Paying guest or Post graduate, nevertheless I chose to be PG for ever for the DJad students.

I started of with general introduction in the class. Felt good to have a cosmopolitan bunch of nut cracks. Only one was missing, a full bread “Bangali” from my homeland. With the knock at the door came a dark complexioned guy with spectacles!!! WOW !!! I got my country cousin and a comic relief for the rest of the three weeks. But I was glad there were less “ Bongs” as they will end up forming a leftist front in college and talk only amongst themselves forming a intellectual clan. The other students consisted of an extremely rash driver who loved intimidating juniors with his massive looks and loud voice specially a particular bong junior who ended up being a “ public property” for ever in DJad , I suppose ; a guitarist who loved using a particular foul word in order to make himself happy and also felt it to be the most vulgar word in the Hindi lexicon ; a Bangalore boy who loved Budhha and behaved some what similar to the smiling one except the weight ; a gujarati who was difficult to be recognized from the back as he resembled one of his girl classmate but by nature they were poles apart ; an oriya girl who loved Salsa and people called her “chinki” as by struck of luck she resembled some one from the oriental culture ….she was another comic relief for me and the other students as well for her unknowingly uttered double meaning one liners; a bong girl from the steel city rourkela who always took care of the former one and saved her from getting bullied excessively; an upcoming model from Chennai with whom I had a former encounter over the phone…voice can be deceptive but her height was no less…she was fairly tall and her yoga poses gave a tough time to the students to draw those daunting gestures ; silence is the prior consent , that describes a kerala girl whose tranquil smile and meager comments in the class is what I cherished the most of her ; an enthusiastic rapper who was the prominent figure amongst the juniors and never felt shy to share his work with them ; a localite who dreams to be a motion graphic artist; a mallu boy who loved his homeland and doesn’t shy away to declare that everything is cheap and unique over there; a Chennai boy who forgot how to whisper and can talk only in higher decibels; brothers in arm is all I can say about the two of Tembes….. the day begun

Good paper is all I wanted but alas! Coimbatore offers you none. A joy ride to the city on a bike is what I was dreading but I had to go for a treasure hunt. We did get papers but mere chart papers with good grain to draw on one side. Perhaps I have used those papers many years back in primary school for making stupid charts of Ideal Indian boy or drawing Solar System diagrams. As we stacked up the papers to head back in an auto , an unprecedented entry of a cop almost made my night into a nightmare. Neither had I understood his language nor his moves. Finally he got down at a junction. It was a part of a favour ride. It didn’t take much time for me to imagine myself behind bars for chart paper smuggling in Tamilnadu. The day ended…so was our paper venture.

Over the period of three weeks I tried several teaching methods for my students to make them understand the importance of “Seeing “ and observation. They were weak but yet showed enthusiasm at every juncture. Charcoal, conte , pencil , ink and brush, water colour, dry pastels- they tried , they struggled and achieved success or came close to perfection. An exercise of writing as you see was also designed in order to make them proficient perceiver. A crash course in photography, again just to develop the taste of beholding was also tried. I had to be patient! Felt bad sometimes why people don’t look at things as I do… but then that’s what I was assigned to make them do for three weeks. Everyday they tirelessly drew in the class with various genres of music playing from my laptop as a background score. Classic rock was what I preferred most of the time. The outdoors were menacing as the wind blew away everything including ones mind. I concluded, it’s too romantic to teach in a place like that…its more of a honeymoon lover’s spot. But I hardly saw any amongst the students or may be there were too dazed by the beauty of nature to declare their love to the rest of the world.

Alagars or popularly know as Alag’s , a saving grace from the insect infested mess food is where we puffed nicotine and savored authentic south Indian food. It is a pilgrimage for all DJad students and was for me too for three weeks. The shriek of OMLETTEeeeeee and Coffeeeee…..still frequents me. I miss the handsome looking half boiled eggs and buns.

The Mess was messy indeed with each day one or the other declaring the type of insects found in their food was something expected. I did feel NID mess which all of us blamed atleast once in those four years, was a heaven. The insects were vigorously declared as coconut fibers by the mess incharge. Helpless students ate them thinking its non veg food or just starved through out the night.

In one of the weekends I was offered students company to hog some nonveg food and enjoy some liquor in the town. Even chickens would love to be eaten the way our gluttony finished many plates of grilled meat. The beer shop- was a regular one but the shady entrance, pathetic smell of country liquor and strong odour of sweat was not very welcoming. An open space with stronger smell of human excreta was called a Bar. It was no less than human orgies in Pagan Rome ruled by Caligula Caesar. So many men drinking in one place that too in such filth was some thing unexpected. A lot of them had to take off their shirt due to the heat, flashing off there privates. It was truly an orgy with liquor bottles. We were offered WARM beer which was detested and replaced with some cheaper brand…another memorable night!

Surprisingly I was teaching just a bunch of 15 budding communication designers but almost seventy percent of the college spoke to me. I liked the way they welcome any faculty with open arms or was it just me?

An extremely tall and dark guy with a foot size 16 n half was one of the favourite amongst the student’s body to be chased around and bullied. He looked like Curtly Ambrose or any Caribbean fast bowlers as he strolled at the corridors bobbing up and down his head with ear phones on. He was restless yet jovial. A guy almost four times of my size, as fair as a foreigner, has indo-australian blood which he told me as he introduced himself in the mess as Bogus! Boy!! What a fascinating name. But nothing was “bogus” about the giant yet sweet boy. His Bangalore nurturing gave him the confidence to speak immaculate kannada. A marathi girl from Bangalore who was addressed as Pingo the penguin by her batchmates , brought back a lot of memories of my animation love as a kid. That’s one of the earliest claymation I have seen in doordarshan. She did look like the penguin from the serial! A philosopher by heart yet quite strong willed girl with a mixed europian-indian origin made pretty remarkable comments at the usual daily movie discussions, which for sure must have poisoned some virgin brains of the freshers present in the A.V hall. She was eloquent! An ever fasting yet smiling kathak dancer made a night extremely memorable for all my students and me as she posed non- stop for one and half hrs. It was race against time and her vibrancy of dance. The concept of girls beating up guys for fun was dusty in my memories from school. A girl rejuvenated that almost every day breaking all the barriers of white collar snobbishness and official behaviour of the MCA and MBA students, which prevails in other parts of the campus. A chatterbox is a must in a design school or rather any institution so was the “short” Rajput one who twittered all day with her mates. A bearded senior, freshly industry trained from Mumbai broke the silence and ruptured the sleep of all juniors with his imperiling looks and coarse voice. My feelings with the freshers always remained mutual as he was scary! A scrawny Madurai fellow who loved to be as free as a painter came and shared his work of animation with me in few days time of being friends. I was impressed with the effort. I always loved Miyazaki and Tezuka’s work but never dreamt of going to Japan but a girl really dreams to accept the Orientals as her home in near future. As Disney said “ If you can dream it , you can do it , it all started of with a little mouse“.

I conversed with so many people , waved at them, smiled at them even shared few instances of my Nid days or just stared at me as if I’m an alien that I lost count of time and days. Few gospel sessions with the old monk of Paldi as he was called back in Nid were really refreshing. To think in such a manner and with so much vision is what one should always appreciate of him at this age. Time some times acts really nasty and my coimbatore endeavor had to end. It ended with a freshers party with some good music and some lateral movement of the body which some one called as DANCE.

Post party I sneaked in to the Boys hostel to revisit my past and relish some Old monk. All well that ends well !!! it ended really well….as the maruti van speeded through the windy coimbatore outskirts towards the airport leaving behind a bunch of waving hands and smiling faces , I felt some kind of vacuity in me. My eyes were soggy not just because I left some lovely people behind but the thought of the concrete jungle haunted me the most. I was back to the cacophony of the Mumbai traffic in a span of 2 hrs…this is the end of the beginning , many more visit awaits in near future.

Illustration Friday : Unfold

2009-06-16T14:43:00.003+05:30

The raging evil unfolds his mighty appearance !!!

Learning English

2009-06-15T11:25:00.002+05:30

Illustrations for an English learning text book for std 1,2,3 for Scholastic India. Pvt. Ltd.

Caricatures for Deutsche Bank employees

2009-06-15T10:30:00.004+05:30

Caricatures done for Deutsche Bank employees posing as cricketers.

Storyboards : Various ads

2009-06-10T13:29:00.007+05:30

Storyboards done for various commercials over the last few months.

Sahara India Pariwar: Indian Cricketers Storyboard

2009-06-10T13:18:00.003+05:30

A magnum opus for Sahar India Pariwar...rusty, grungy feel good beautifully shot ad.

Sahara India Pariwar : Indian Cricketers Storyboard

2009-06-10T12:53:00.003+05:30

The end :)

Illustration Friday : Adapt

2009-05-31T19:17:00.005+05:30

After a long contemplation I decide to draw something which had left a haunting image in my mind long back as kid.
" Bagh Bahadur " or " The Tiger Dancer" ( 1989) a national award winning children's film directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. The story goes something like this, Ghunuram ( Pavan Malhotra ) is a Tiger dancer by choice where he performs fake combats with humans and entertains people of the village. But his fate makes him adapt a situation where he faces the real beast and the film ends with a depressing note with the real beast winning over the adapted one. A must watch for kids and adults specially for Pavan Malhotra's mind blowing performance as Ghunuram. Enjoy !!

The Wise n The Holy Men

2009-05-28T19:46:00.002+05:30

The stand-alone

The Beard-o-

The Rasta Priest

The Highness

The Radio-active ( courtesy Ravi )

Its been for a long time that I have enjoyed drawing the saffron clad , perpetually high on holy-weed Saint/Sages/Priest. Devoid of any such materialistic binding they hold the most amazing characters in them through their attire and their rusty weathered looks. With age really the wisdom comes into you I suppose !!!

Illustration Friday : Cracked

2009-05-25T19:41:00.004+05:30

" Locked in each human skull is a little world all its own ".
- Robert Tusker

One fine summer afternoon

2009-05-19T14:15:00.002+05:30

I shifted to a new apartment few days back...it's away from the hullabaloo of Mumbai-madness in Borivili. Small and peaceful dwelling for two of us (me and Ravi). As recession still haunts me sometimes, my imagery keeps me calm. Tried out my hands on ever loving water colour..the toughest of medium to deal with...I think I still havent lost it yet...enjoy !!!!