" When they painted their masterpiece "

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

Bollywood

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

CHICKENS

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

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

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

Illustrations Friday : Star Gazing

 

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

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

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Visualization for a music video

Eristoff Vodka

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

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

 

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

Illustration Friday : Ripple

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

Just a thought...

Illustration Friday : Slither

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

Illustration Friday : Early

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

Marina Beach, Chennai

 

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

THE WEEK : Courage to Go Beyond

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

Illustrations for a book of IDIOMS

Moodboard illustrations for Burn cold drink

Cover for Daddy Long Legs : Scholastic India

Storyboard for Shriram Insight

Cover Options for Four Just Men : Scholastic,India

Oscar Wilde series for Scholastic

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

Flashy Stuff

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

Illustration Friday : Renewal

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