Illustration Friday : Cracked

Ok, This is perhaps my longest blog post. Anyway, for this week's Illustration Friday, I could only come up with this idea. It kind of traces back to my childhood. Well, as a kid, I was a hungry kid. very hungry. I wanted food. Hell with the world. Thankfully now its not the same. Ha! It involves some more hunger, some hard work, and finally being able to have 'cracked' the egg cracking***. Here goes...

Little Jassi got up one evening to realize no one was at home.
Momma was out for her evening walk and daddy for the cricket coaching.

Little Jassi was hungry. And bad.



'Ah! The fridge! But it will be locked like momma always keeps it when she goes out.'*


*yes, she used to do this. otherwise I'd eat everything inside it.

But like hunger found a way to his tummy;
Little Jassi always found a way to the top of the refrigerator...

... and be victorious.

As the golden light from the refrigerator glowed, little Jassi would soon find heaven.
'The appliance is calling to me...'

'But then... I can't cook vegetables and fruits are too healthy. Hmmm... What could I do?'

'I know... EGGS! They're easy, and I've seen Mum do it.
And how difficult could it get anyway?!?'

So he popped them in the frying pan. After all, who doesn't like scrambled eggs!?!
But something felt not-so-right.

'Uh...'

'YUCKH!!!
I made scrambled egg shells! Can't eat this... what now?'

'Ah! all hard work down the drain!' Little Jassi exclaimed as he did what he had to...

"TRRRINGGG!!!"
the doorbell rang.

'Oh my god! Now what do I do??'

'Ahem ahem...'

But Mommy dearest knew something strange had been cooking.
Little Jassi had left dead giveaways!

Like this...

... and this...

...annnd this...

'OK little one! WHAT, may I ask, have you been upto?'

'I... uhh... I...w...ww...was... just... uhh... h... hhh... hungry...'

And little Jassi was excused thanks to the I'm-so-sorry puppy dog face.
As he ended up with food in his stomach and a lesson in how to crack eggs!

And he, after a fine gap of eight years, finally got it.
Happy cracked-ing:)
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**Sorry mom, for making you look so tyrranous, you don't look like this. But hey, I gave you pretty swell sneakers there! Love you:)
*** certain parts of the incident have been slightly altered or eggagerated.

Illustration Friday : Contagious

Wow. this entry is happening after soooo much procrastination its not even funny. As each week passed, Illustration friday rolled out really cool topics; and I was absolutely uninspired to do anything on any of them. After knowing what this week's topic was, there was only one word that came to my mind. And then... I 'yawn'ed. So I quickly took a pencil and it took me two days to figure out a yawning mouth's movement. I hope I have managed to get it right.



This was another little idea that came to my mind, as I remembered school days and how boring some classes were and how we had to sit through them, so I decided to draw it out too.
Hope you like it.
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And boy, Yawns sure are contagious.



*yawns*

This blog is on a holiday.

yayyyyy!

Kiss but Don't Tell.

This be the illustration for an article for the college film and video annual (?!?) publication, called 'Cut Here' annnd Shreyas' Graphic Design classroom project. The article, 'Kiss and Tell', that this illustration is for is written by Akhila Krishnan and is about kissing in cinemas, how it has been portrayed over the ages all over the world, has come a come a long way to, well, still being thought of as something taboo (atleast in Bollywood), and to indivisuals who started the trend and what it has shaped itself as. The illustration is still in its refinement stages and theres a long way to go till it gets pooblished; or atleast till Shreyas makes sure it is purrfect and fit to become a part of her project.
I hope it gets done soon:)
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Of Late Nights and Women.

Yes, it was a plan, to make myself sound really shady with the title. And yes, I do feel guilty for not updating little blog for quite a while now. It's 'haulidays'! And due to my royally messed up time cycle, at home I can't sleep when I'm supposed to and am pretty much, well, brain dead. These sketches were done on one such night from a book on female action models. The light and shade treatment was more of an extension of a freehand drawing course excercise and I ended up sleeping by some 4 am after a happy little sketching session. JOY!
Hope you like it.
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And have a lovely day:)

The Sooper Tam is Leaving!

A friendly venture between Kaveri and me resulted in a blast of color, strangely 60s resembling style, a dash of Thangka, and a lot of louwe for our beloved senior, Shreyas R. Krishnan, the Sooper Tam, who is very verry soon leaving on a jet plane for her diploma project.

This poster was done to publicize her pre-diploma display, or simply her 'pre-dip', a dying tradition of college revived from time to time by people believing in the olden-golden ways of learning where students display allllll the work done by them throughout the course of them being a student here.

Ha! makes me realize how time flies... and I watch us stepping into the shoes of seniority.

Little elves get nostalgic as Film Club weeps watching the Sooper Tam leave...we will miss you being around:)

Illustration Friday : Talisman

Nice how kids just figure some things out themselves...

A mini comic for illustration friday's topic this week, 'talisman'.

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have a good day.

P.S.- you need ice-cream. And so do I.

*birrd shites*

'eeek!'

Editing and all that jazz.

Currently we are having a course in 'Editing'... I didn't expect it to be such a theory-heavy subject but well it is, and a lot of it for that matter! But its quite an eye-opener... and quite the contrary in some cases...
Taken by a Bengali who hails from Kolkata, a FTII, Pune graduate whose name happens to be Arghya Basu ( though it is pronounced as Orgho)... this course is also making me use my sketchbook a lot, which is nice for a change... Ok I wonder why I'm giving his bio-data, anyway, but these are my partially vaguely successful attempts to get a portrait of the man right.

EE on cartridge.
Have a nice day:)

Illustration Friday : Poise

Yay!!

Finally an illustration friday topic that allows me to draw (as some of my friends would put it) skinny, hot models. So, there it is!

J.O.Y!

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Illustration Friday : Subtract

Don't you think I'm quite good-looking/handsome/pretty/attractive, if only you could subtract a few pounds ?!?


*sigh*

WatercolorWoman.

Been very very uninspired lately... and my watercolor set and sketchbook had been rotting in my bag for so long... I kind of like how this took shape... wanted to get the whole floating watery effect. It is only a little relieving to realize I'm not completely out of touch... phew!

Domestic Violence Reshaped.

This is the redone version of the illustration on 'domestic violence in rural India' for a publication project by NID for the Ministry of Welfare for Women and Children. The illustration stretches over a double spread, the black extending to the next page. I guess it works more than the previous illustration...I guess.

Comic Book Ends!

Ha. It's been a very very exhausting journey to the completion of what you see. Hope you like it. Do do feedback-ing.

Comic Book : Three, Four, Five.

The third, fourth and the fifth in the actual sequence...hope y'all like it!
Another five pages to come.

Comic Book : One, Two.

These are the first and the second pages as in the actual comic book sequence that I did.

Many more 'AARGHs' to come soon...

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Violence Strikes.

This is an earlier version of an illustration I recently did on the subject of 'domestic violence in rural India'.

I do not know what fixation I have with using only black and white in almost all illustrations that I'm doing these days, I guess it is a phase...It is also kind of similar in terms of the composition to something that I did a while back that also happens to be up on the blog in a previous entry and I refuse to disclose which one it is...hehe.

All feedback welcome. Have a good day!

IllustrationFriday : Celebrate/ Happy birthday Ma!

A very appropriate topic for the week.

A very happy valentine's day to all and more importantly...a verry verrry happy haapy birthday to Mommy.

I'm guessing you got it but if you didn't, the lower image is an attempt to do a caricature of my mother.

So much that happened as we grew one more year older... I wish I was at home and out of this hostel for today... and that Devika(my lovvly sister) was still in Delhi (she shifted to Chennai recently) ...Ah! And I miss the chocolate cake. Miss you all.

Love. .Peace. .Happy.

Eruptions and more...

This is for a 'Comic Book Workshop' in which we had to come up with a 10 page- comic, two out of which are here...However for a course in 'Screen Printing', these were the only two pages that I took forward for printing on fabric to create surfaces as prints. The comic, My comic is named 'Eruptions', as you might see why...the pages are not in order, the first one that you see is actually the 2nd page and the second one the 5th page in the actual comic book. All feedback welcome because this is my first attempt in building a narrative in panels.

Have a good day!

Travelling Blues

I was on my way back from home (Delhi) back to college (Gujarat)...I don't know if its just me but I really didn't want to come back this time. It was cold and very verry early in the morning and celebration had suppressed the desire to sleep. So there I was, with my tummy feeling weird, wanting to pee, out in the cold, waiting in a looooong queue for the ticket to get printed. The rest is in the scratchy illustration right above this that I drew in the airport later.

Illustration Friday : Flawed

Procrastination has kept me and my blog away for a looooong time... but 'we have overcome.'

'Expanses grow; for they are my own...'

I don't know which one is the flaw..
Being fat?
or the lack of determination to change it?
Either way, I'm flawed.

Illustration Friday - Pale

Entering after a very very long time....

This week's Illustration Friday's topic is 'pale'. No points for guessing who turned pale on looking at the little cat work its charm.
Have a good day!
*tweet*

Illustration Friday : Clandestine

I guess I know what the word 'clandestine' means...I don't know if this is clandestine enough though. Its got a little story.

Sniffly elf worked in santa's factory all day making little toys. He was tired and depressed. 'And wretched Santa takes all the credit anyway. U N F A I R !' he said to himself. And just when life couldn't get worse, he realised there were these nasty deep, dark pits under his eyes. 'O h m y g o o d y g o o d n e s s !', he exclaimed. Shocked and in despair, little sniffly quickly took out his 'magical-super-effectively-cool under eye concoction' and started squeezing it out. Thats not quite when he would expect Santa to happily come calling for him...

The rest in the illustration.

A very happy new year to all!

Sniffly Elf : Anish Dasgupta

Title Credits : Kaveri G.

Special Thanks : Raveesh Reddy

Sniffly Elf Comes to Life.

Sniffly elf's first appearance on the blog. Many more sniffly rhymes expected to come.

A very very merry christmas to all!

Sniffly Elf - Anish Dasgupta
Title courtesy - Kaveri G.
Inspiration source - Chai Gate.

Illustration Friday : Voices

This week's Illustration Friday topic is 'voices'. This is what I came up with. Its been a while. Ah...whatever.

'I don't need your voice. I have my own.'

Of spirituality, Lotuses and Bills

This post brings with it a lottttt of emotion and procrastination. I made this during Durga Puja when I was in a very specifically different mindset and was also going through so many emotions that it ended up coming out in this. In my mind I questioned faith and how it exists and manifests itself in the forms that it does. And also its absurdly developed relationship with wealth. I guess I partially got my answer and hence ended up putting up this post.

Have a good day.

Illustration Friday : Balloon

Illustration Friday's this week's topic - Balloon.

All that the wrathful nightmare did;
All the horrible words it uttered;
For her it was mere 'blah-bleh-blah-bleh';
For she did didn't understand, and couldn't bother;
A pencil in one hand, a paintbrush in another;
She set her mind working, drawing strings and filling color;
The poor nightmare yelled out like a buffoon;
And the girl got a handful of balloons!

Illustration Friday : Opinion

Its funny how no matter what some people will always have an opinion and others will...well...err...have very varying ones.

Illustration Friday : Pretend

My first post to Illustration Friday.

'pretend'ing to live a life you never wanted.

Macbeth Witch-Bitch-ness.

This was done for a course 'film language' where we were shown four different versions/adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth.For a visual representation assignment i chose to do a re-characterisation of the witches. A part of it I guess is also inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's work which I was exposed to thanks to Akhila. After evolving so much this is what they finally ended up looking like. Someone has interesting things to say about this. Is the cat around?

The Solemn Goodbye

I wish i was nicer. I wish you did not have to leave so soon. You leave me crippled. Eyes well up as i see you walk past the hollow lane;bereft of any hint of an emotion. I promise I will be good.I hope I never let you down. I hope this insecurity does not leave me arching, hiding, laying on my bed. Stay.