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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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