Still burns bright

Randomness with one of my favourite animal....tried to simplify the form

Around the World in 80 days retold by Scholastic, India

An illustration for all time classic Jules Verne's Around the world in 80 days for Scholastic.

The Frog Prince : Retold by Scholastic

These two were done for the evergreen "Frog Prince" story in the similar style as the Stork and the Fox. They belong to the same book so the similarity of style.

The Landlord : Russian Folk tale

Two illustration options for a Russian folk tale. I preferred the one on the left because of it cold look....and the earthy feel...but a kid's book perhaps demands something else..may be more vibrant like the first one....

The rest two....

The Fox and the Stork

These are illustrations for a chapter of a children's book for Scholastic India pvt.ltd
Pencil colour effect isn't that bad in Coral Painter x.Liked the scratchy effect!!!

Nameless face

Just random scribbling with my new Intuos 3 wacom tablet. Nothing specific...

"To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love"

"Those have torches will pass them onto others" that's what Plato said ages ago. Recently I'm keeping myself busy in teaching young hearts and minds back in my Alma mater. I consider myself lucky to be called by the institute which not only grew on me but also helped me grow as an artist who practise design.
The following course was design drawing for animation where we practice various possibilities of drawing using various mediums. Its difficult to teach drawing because I think drawing naturally comes to some people but some needs rigorous practice to reach a point of proficiency. I tried various exercises to make the students comfortable with mediums and also to get rid of the " white paper syndrome" , which I have seen over the years where people are very scared to start drawing on white / blank sheet. The Class consisted of twelve enthusiastic students. " They were open to learn new things" . These r few of their best works.

Name of Students/ Animators :
Jasjyot Singh Hans
Kabini Amin
Smitha s
Lavanya Naidu
Dinesh
Kaveri G
Avirup basu
Ankita
Arka Gupta
Dipankar Sengupta
Shravan
Pallavi Verma

Some More Work of my students

Two New books for Penguin

I worked on two books for penguin yet again....the brief for the first book was a little difficult one. It's a book on Saleem Chisti the Religious figure in the moghul era. As nobody has seen him neither we have any artist impression I had to potray him from various angle but not front. These are few of the Illustrations.
The Second book was simple and drawing iconic figures in the world of explorers who visited India.

I Love my India...:)

These are again random illustrations done in college as a time-pass took them out from my beloved sketchbooks. One of my first attempt to use the " brush-pen".

When you really miss your city

Some glimpses of my city , the way I saw it over the years....nothing new...but still its always special for me!!

File Cover

I wish I had so much of time to do this kind of random stuff on the eco design files ... :), Now a days !!!

Jihad ?

This is a result of overdose of storyboard for a film based on terrorist activity...really random art.

Im not an expert photographer !!

Express yourself !!

Har fikr ko dhuye mein udhata chala gaya !!


Two of my favourite Photographs taken long back in college... :)

More frames in 30 seconds

Here are the latest ones.

30 secs of "frames"

Well....this post had to come up some day..its been a while I'm been recognised as one of the Storyboard artist from Nid in Mumbai television and Film industry. A roller coaster from "no pay" to "less payed" to "fix frame rates"..its been a long journey. Sleepless nights, neck breaking speed of work is what storyboarding is all about.Visualizing films with directors and cinematographers is fun. These are some selected frames from different commercials which have been already on air.
p.s. Most of them had very little time....:(

A Strange Dream

This Film was made in 2006 as a part of my curriculum diploma project, a self sponsored one.The film is based on my city where I saw the first light of the day, Kolkata , the city of Joy for some or the cultural capital for some others.Its a non linear interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's poem "A strange dream " with abstract visuals depicted through a kid's dream.

Khude: Little one

This is my class room project done in 2005 back in NID in my final year of my design studies. Its a film based on the complex education system of our country and also portrays a kids inner self through his own shadow. Rest is all in the film . Enjoy!!!

The Last Of the Mohicans

I'm fascinated with the head gears and chiseled faces of these American Indians....its a treat to sketch them....

I fell into the Burning Ring of Fire

Johnny Cash
(1932-2003)

LAKME FREAK SHOW

A quick illustration of the interpretation of my first ever visit to a Fashion show.....guys it only reminded me of this....no offense to the models or the designers !!!

The golden arm behind the oxberry

Dipak bhai the messiah, friend, philosopher, the man behind the HISTORICAL OXBERRY CAMERA and offcourse the genius with binding...

Extremely Random Sketches

Really random sketches during my last visit to my Alma mater.... that place has got characters I must say.

Kids Book llustrations

These are two exploration for a pre-school kid book I'm working on...the process is on...wanted to try out different styles...lets see where it goes.

Let there be Light There was Light : Calendar illustrations for Edelweiss Corporate

These are illustrations for a Fiscal calendar for a Edelweiss Corporate.Gave them a lot of options for the entire campaign for this year. Had real good fun making them...thanks to Coral painter.