Portrait is a Funny Word.

Ok. So I've been working hard on quick portraiture. I think I really need to work on it. So alongside my internship, if I can get time, I sit and try to make faces look like people; Or the other way round, erm.. I'm not sure

I start humbly by attempting my sister's portrait, which I have NEVER been able to draw. I show it to her and she blurts out,' I DON't look like this!'

I agree.

So sketching her while she sleeps is just easier. I'm happy, so is she.

Some super quick ones.

And some sketches:)

Joy. I love life, again.

Sketchbook courtesy: Tenzin Yeshi

Another Trip: Amritsar and More

I went to Amritsar a while back. I kind of have fallen in love with my brush pen, and think the feeling, inspite of a few mood swings, is pretty mutual. These sketches are what I did sitting at home and some in Amritsar. I'm trying to get myself to work on my live portrait skills, because I think they've been neglected for too long and I've been reasonably horrible at it. So here it all is!

Some more portraits to follow soon:)

My Dad and his Ray-bans

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It's Another BlogBirthday!

Wow. It has been TWO WHOLE YEARS since I started this blog; Not just that, this happens to be my blog's 100th post as well.
I never though I'd get so much feedback and get to see such amazing work coming from such wonderfully talented people all over the world. It's a journey surely worth continuing and learning as I go along. A big, big thank you to all the people who took out the time and commented/ browsed through the blog. I shall try to be more regular with my posting in the coming years.
So cheers to the two that passed by and many more to come:D

Haven't been able to update the blog on time because my evil office where I'm interning blocks blogging:P

Illustration Friday- Ahead/ Lady Gaga Begins.

An illustration I finished re-hee-cently that gets recycled for Illustration Friday:D

I'm in love with Lady Gaga and think she really is currently ahead of all in pop music for now; and has stepped it up. This is my first proper-proper illustration of her; inspired by her 'Paparazzi' video and her MTV VMA 2009 performance.

It is more like an act where she is lying on the ground with a pool of blood next to her.

I'm not tooooo happy with the way the background came out because I had something different in mind. Let me know what you think.

Top to Bottom: Final to outline to roughs.

Feedback, welcome:)

You Are Being Watched- Concept Still.

A concept tilt still from my wannabe first film (which is still in its preprepre production stages) about a 7 year old girl coming to terms with her conscience. This was a visualization for a scene where the girl sits on the table to eat and sees the food she doesn't like, as she looks up, she sees a certain friend watching her from the other side of the table; and this was also an option for background treatment.

The two strange demarcations along the length are to show as the camera tilts up, it goes up three units, or is supposed to go, for now... well.

Let me know if there are any suggestions on how I can vary it; any feedback welcome, as always:)

Stop Sleep Motion.

We juuuust finished shooting our first BIG project; which happens to be a group stopmotion/claymation film. It has been a mad ride, and looks like it is only going to get more mad. On mind blocked days with no hope inside a stuffy room, I'd take out my sketchbook and brush pen (or play Plants Vs Zombies; more often). During the shoot someone or the other would ALWAYS be asleep. Any surface would do. Floor, a sunken mattress, a chair, two chairs or sometimes even three! See for yourself.

Ha. Looking at all this is making me sleepy. Goodnight.

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Alice Goes to Vegas.

A sketchbook cover reject for a college fashion show themed 'Alice in Vegas'. I still like it though:P

The front is the March Hare; the back, queen of hearts.

All feedback welcome:)

Illustration Friday: Dip

Yay! I'm glad Illustration Friday is coming up with topics I can relate to grub with! So here's another one; a shameless display of current needs.

Sigh. I could make a whole series on this:)

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Summer Is Here:'(

As must be clear by the post title, I'm not too fond of summer. In fact I hate it. Hate is a nice word, I detest summer. So here's to being optimistic and dedicating it to a lot of ice lollies.

Illustration Friday - Expired/ 'Hello, Can We Meet Again?'

I don't remember too much of my childhood, even though I'd like to believe it still isn't over. However, there remain a few things about it I simply can't forget. I remember the park near my house, it was too big for me; where mum used to go for her evening walk. Me and my cousins would tag along often, fascinated by the swings. There we sat on the lovely green grass and spent hours playing with tiny ladybirds. Most of the time I wondered how anything so small could be so amazingly pretty. Now I spend hours wondering where they all went. I don't see them anymore. Not even in the same park. Vanished.

It took me a while to realize the amount of time that had passed by since I had last seen a sparrow when I saw one the other day. I remember when I was small they would stop by often, bathing in a tiny pool of water, fluffing themselves clean; chirping away to glory.

I'm not going to pretend to be an environmentalist.

I'm not going to go around telling people how to behave with animals.

Extinct is a strong word. They can save it for tigers.

Yet all I'm left with is a few childhood memories and a pencil in my hand.

I'm sad; knowing I don't have a chance to relive the expired; I'd give my all to.

Barista Buddies

Sketching started sitting in Barista with coffee on a stressed, bored evening.

WaterMan

Another morning spent peacefully with my set of watercolors.

A refuge from Life.

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Illustration Friday - Brave/ PimpleburstMania

An Illustration Friday entry after ages.

A sketchbook cover I dirtied with make believe pus. A sketchbook cover my friends made and sold as a part of a course. Don't even ask me why it's called brawn. lol.

My obsession continues with Eruptions and the same character as he pulls his nerves together and braves to do what he does.

Is anyone else out there fascinated by volcanoes of these kind?

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Experimenting All the Way

My Experimental Animation Project is finally complete.

Animated with waste industrial felt rolls, empty coke bottles, some ink and a lot of shadow; soundscape created from environment and parts of a song 'The Big Bubble' by 'The Mole'.

Experimental Animation from Jasjyot Singh Hans on Vimeo.

Feedback of any sort will be appreciated:)

Another trip to Chennai

This is a late update. Have been busy with my stopmotion project. Unusually busy. But I've been wanting to write about my second trip to Chennai which happened quite a while back as I went to my sister's to chill. As much as I found the place strange earlier; I couldn't help but love the flavorsome city. There was too much to do, and me falling sick was trying to make it worse. I thankfully recovered, but only at the end of the trip. The place where they lived was absolutely beautiful. Right next to a hill with a shrine on top of it. The wind, the 'fruit shop', the beach. There was too much to take in. All put together in a lovely coconut that Chennai is. My sister has now shifted to Bangalore; and we will miss the city, always.

Here are some of the sketches I did there with my brush pen.

A shady couple on the beach:)

My brother-in-law and my sister at the beach.

My sister at home switching from channel to channel; an age old habit.

A construction happening somewhere on the hilltop shrine.

People praying as I shamelessly sketch.

More people and a lot of wind. And a couple.

I follow a couple in the dark as I try to draw them while walking.

And some more of my favorite thing to draw, people.

What a lovely experience. Made possible by my sister and her husband. Thanks. A lot:)

Love.