Learning English

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

Caricatures for Deutsche Bank employees

Caricatures done for Deutsche Bank employees posing as cricketers.

Storyboards : Various ads

Storyboards done for various commercials over the last few months.

Sahara India Pariwar: Indian Cricketers Storyboard

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

Sahara India Pariwar : Indian Cricketers Storyboard

The end :)

Illustration Friday : Adapt

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

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

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

One fine summer afternoon

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 !!!!

Illustration Friday:Contagious

" Yawning" can be extremely contagious !!! which ends up in a state of slumber...enjoy!!!

Cell-ish Bhais

Few characters done for an agency ad campaign for cell phone dealers called " cell-ish bhai "...had to play around with the cliche image of them.

Illustration Friday : Hierarchy

The Corporate Hierarchy !!!

HOMAGE TO THE ESTATE BROKERS

It's been three years I have encountered different species of Brokers who are rather Jokers in true sense. Here's a small thought about them and how we are helpless without their assistance.
Enjoy!!!!

Impossibility : Illustration Friday

Well it is a subjective post as far as the reasoning is concerned but that's how I felt about our opposites over years ..... but offcourse it can be vice-versa also....Impossibility is what i conclude !!! I couldn't deal with a single frame so ended up with this small strip...Enjoy !!!

The Sooper Tam Pre dip Poster

After three years of me leaving NID I miss it much..till date....but some Juniors are still there who don't let me miss my Alma Mater. This Poster was done for Shreyas Krishnan... a Junior Graphic designer friend for her Predip Display( it is an exhibition of your four years work) . Its a long lost tradition of NID....I'm proud she did put up a display...Kudos !!!

Illustration Friday : Fleeting

A very very faint memory of Kajiranga Forest...of a fleeting buck!!!

Musical Legends: Part 3

TOM : Muddy Wilbury



JOAN: Queen Of Folk

NEIL : Old Man


ERIC : Creamed Yadbird

Musical Legends : Part 2

WILLIE : The Outlaw


MARK : Golden Heart

JOHN : Peace-maker


Few more...More to come !!!

Musical legends : Part 1

BOB : Lucky Wilbury


JOHNNY : The Man In Black


BRUCE : The Boss


Musical legends who keep me ticking for hours infront of the computer... more to come !!

Warrior Princess

Inspired from the Manipuri warrior princess Chitrangada...one of the wives of Arjuna.

She...

Scribbled Face

Just scribble and something will come up !!!

Illustration Friday : Poise

...picture says it all !!!

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn...

Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right.

Book cover

A book cover done for Random House which never saw the light of day...they wanted the characters to look " sexy" and "pretty" something like an indianised version of "mills and boons" at the same time the reader should be in love with them which amused me a bit....so ended up not continuing the project....I enjoyed doing this in the essence of the 70's film posters.