Women & Sketchery!

HOLLA!
Haven't posted in a long, long time! Late realization, I know!
I've been working on a whole lot of work some of which I can't put up just now, so I shall put up some other stuff with which I've been dirtying my sketchbooks/ Photoshop/ Illustrator with!


This was an experiment with this gorgeous, addictive Photoshop brush I found in a deep, dark corner of ze Internet!This was done while listening to 'Someone Like You' by the wonderful, wonderful sounding Adele! Pentel Black+ grey babies put to some good use!

Me and my saxxy friend, Kaveri love stopping by at Emily Carroll and Vera Brosgol's Draw This Dress blog! This was modelled on an Alexander McQueen dress. I had a lot of fun working on this and stuck to a simple, clean style.

Another random day with Illustrator! Soem type scribble that resulted in this, finally. Any hardcore graphic design feedback NOT required, thanks :)

And THIS! My mum has been wanting to start a blog for too long and has feared that nobody will read it if it had no illustration accompanying the text. So she asked me to work on something for something she had written about Indian men and their loose bladders, a common sight in India. Here it is! Show support on her baby blog, HERE!

Also, work on my film is progressing (finally)! Will share some more stuf from it very, very soon!

Feedback of all shapes, colors, sizes welcome!

Have a loverrly day :D

ULTI CHHATRI TURNS 3 :)

Hi all!

Ok, so I admit I'm bad with birthdays! And I forgot my blog's birthday this time! Silly me!

So, MY BLOG TURNED THREE on the 5th of May! YES: ULTI CHHATRI is 3 YEARS OLD :D

And I've been SO thankful to see so many wonderful, wonderful people visit and leave their valuable feedback.

Here's some of the work that I've been wanting to post for a long, long time but never got around to!

Here's my illustration for the much awaited Madness Mandali's Kavikala, a poetry- illustration mashup publication :)

And here is the rough sketch to figure out placement of elements and text.

And this is a vector piece I worked on for the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Marathon Contest. The brief was to make an eye catching visual that had to include 'Run breast cancer out of town.' as a part of its design and represent New York in some way. I wanted to work on something to do with the ridges, but ended up using the skyline and the Statue of Liberty torches :)

Do leave feedback !

Have a great day! :D

My Threadless Debut!

HELLO!

Ok, So I finally managed to make an entry for the 'Threadless loves Noir' challenege. What I need is help, for you lovely people to go on the page and vote for my print! You miiight be required to make a Threadless account, which hopefully shouldn't take too long!

HERE IS THE LINK: I SCREAM PSYCHO.

About my design: The first thing that came to my mind was the Psycho shower scene and I happened to be eating ice cream :D So this is my sweet homage to Hitchcock!

Please DO VOTE and spread the word through your Facebook/ Twitter! :D

Also, do leave feedback! :D

Grizzling Love!

It isn't pouring love, it is grizzling. And it isn't even monsoon yet!

OK. sorry.

Yesterday wasn't just a Thursday! It was a GRIZZLY BEAR THURSDAY! I stumbled upon this lovely blog that features various artists' work.

The only condition, it's got to be a Grizzly bear :D

I worked on this vector piece for the blog and she was nice enough to feature me! Here it is :)

I had SO much fun working on this!

Do let me know what you think! And if you know a place where I could get badges made, I wouldn't mind :D

Have a nice day!

The Bechain Entry into Summer :D

HOLLA!

Another obscenely late post, I apologize!

Well, if you ask me what I've been upto, I'm STILL trying to finish my film, of which not much is getting done and I'm very sad about it. So, to make myself happy, I'm doing random things :)

Well, but this is some of what the film will look like :D

Older posts on film: here and here.

This is a part of a line of sketchbooks/notebooks that a friend's friend wanted us to work on and I agreed. Each artist did five covers and the rest happened so fast, I still can't get over it ! :D

We all settled for the name 'Bechain Nagri': Bechain (Hindi) = Restless/Excited and Nagri/Nagar(Hindi)= town/place. I would not dare put the final translated name together :P

Well, so we had a lot of sketchbooks on sale, during our college fest. A cart was brought, decked up and off they were! Here is what some of the madness looks like :D

And these were my prints:

A little celebration followed on the first success of 'Bechain Nagri' and here are all of us wonderful people who were a part of this :D

If you want to see the other awesome sketchbooks, know more/ want to order (shipping facility will be on hopefully soon), or just want to take a look, do join the Facebook community! :)

Ha! So yes, and also, some random wacom+type things including an important message I give myself everyday:

I'm very proud of the fact that the 'day' looks like ketchup :P

Feedback of all & any kind appreciated :D

Have a great day! :)

ClothesDrop :)

HALLO!

I told you I will put some vector stuff up! There will be more soon.

Meet the two lovely Illustrator ladies:)

This was done for a leetle contest on Deviant Art. The character isn't mine; her name is Kikloh. The brief for the contest was to make the character in any weather and use a frame to symbolize the weather. I had to choose Summer ;)

This was for a 5 AM Wacom coloring trial.

Me and Kaveri were discussing how Him was the coolest villain in the Powerpuff Girls and how it would be absolutely awesome to stylize him. So well, here it is! I don't much love the thin outline, I guess I didn't plan to do so. Actually, I'm not too happy with it at all. I still need to work on a background which will have to be some purple smoke-cloud thing but this is it for now.

And last but not the least, the film that has been on my mind for a while now. Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky. I've been wanting to draw something for this for too long now and this just happened yesterday! I'd like to do something more finished looking soon :)

Work on my film is happening too! I hope to finish it by February :D :D Please pray it gets done!

Feedback of all sorts appreciated!

Have an awesome day :)

Illustration Friday - Chicken

Another Illustration Friday update after AGES :D

Here is a little illo I did on my food chart, a big portion of which, as visible is coffee :) ... and... a lot of other things. It isn't the healthiest diet on Earth, so it is time for a change, I say! And change shall come, shall come! Well, ALSO, Illustration Friday's this week's topic happens to be CHICKEN! :D

What greater joy!

Also, my louwe for vector art is growing. More to come soon on that and the film :)

Do leave feedback!

Have a waanderful day :)

HAPPY NEW DECADE!

I'm tired of listening to all the happy new year wishes so I'm trying to change it a little.

Well, anyway...

A HAPPY 2011 TO ALL OF YOU!!!

Ha, so 15th December was my dad's birthday, These are two of some of the portraits I've attempted of him:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!

ANNND, These are my film's treatment stills :D :D :D The name is fixed. It will be called... .....

*drumroll please*

EYE AM WATCHING YOU

Finally, I get to post updates from this project! YAYY!!! Oh, do let me know if they look ok, OK? Or leave some valuable feedback :)

And this is the official, official model sheet for the film.

Again, here's to a wonderful year ahead full of loads of, erm.. good things :)

Feedback of all shapes, moods and sizes appreciated :)

:( + :)

Ok, a customary note of apology before I start a new post. Hence the sad smiley on the post title. I've been lazy. Unusually lazy+mildly depressed. Yes, making an animation film can be neurotic. It sure is fun, but not just that. More updates on that very very soon!

I'm going to post a few things that aren't really related to each other but that's what I've been upto lately. Any form of distraction that allows me to escape into a space away from my film is an immediate friend. And what better friend than 'graphiccompetitions dot com'. Sigh. Hence the smiling smiley on the post title.

An entry for the Hugo Visual Mixtape Contest. The brief was to get inspired by a set of given songs and create a visual for them in this format, with the Hugo Man bottle being central to the idea. The songs were very Disco+Techno. Hence the visual. Illustrator+Photoshop love.

These are my entries for the ONE condoms wrapper design contest. It was a lot of fun making cheeky entries for this incorporating the logo in the design with a caption! And before you do ANYTHING else, VOTE for my entries. I mean, RATE them. I mean, give them a good RATING. The best one available! I will love you if you do that:D

HERE be the link to all my entries.

The idea of an 'Ever Running Comic' isn't new. So a few enthu college people decided to get together and work on our own version of it! Two pages per person added every week to ourDeviant Art profiles. I was the second one to continue; so I worked on pages 3 & 4! Awesome fun! Here are the pages ONE & TWO. My two pages included some humor, some drama and some Alexander McQueen shoes, (on page 4;) . A silent tribute.

Ha. All feedback appreciated:)

The Spirit Channel

Ok, this is a bit late but I logged onto DeviantArt recently to realize the site header was purple; a surprising break from the ugly green-grey that they have, I thought to myself. I HAD to find out what it was for. It was then that I stumbled upon the DeviantArt CEO, Angelo informing me about SPIRIT DAY, which was on 20th October; and I made this.

I call this 'The Spirit Channel'.

Channel as in between the two faces facing each other. The 'two' faces. The negative space in the hair on the left, ... right? Get it?!?

Ah. Nevermind:/

Anyway, Happy anti-bullying and have a lovely day!

Do leave feedback!

Vector Art Monster!

This was my entry for the Wacom 4th Anime/Manga Character Design Contest.

The topic: Monster! Yes, it was just that.

Took me a while to do; this is the most detail I've added in vector art. But it was fun to do:)

Name: Gogundaria

About the monster: Ferocious. Hot pink in color. Six inches in height. Has a soft corner for girls and all things cute.

Loves: His purple boxing gloves and bunny slippers.

I didn't win but I don't regret it because the entries that won were just plain awesome!

Lots to get inspired from.

More to come on this sadly updated blog!

Please do keep visiting.

All feedback welcome:)

Building Relationships

Ok. That is probably the worst title I could come up with for a post! Apologies:P

These were some very, very quick sketches done at the Airtel Relationship Centre, Bengaluru, India. I pulled out my sketchbook and started off. Even made a 'fan', who asked me to do a quick portrait! As boring as the place was, the sketching was good fun & I realise living without a brush pen is plain impossible. sigh! Here are some of the sketches

Feedback of all sorts appreciated:)

Illustration Friday - Dessert

Ok. This is the longest I've stayed away from Illustration Friday. Sometimes I don't like the topic, sometimes I like it but can't work on it & sometimes I just don't know what the topic is.

However, this is a topic hardly anyone can resist. So off I go! I again had the fortune to go to the most GODLY dessert place I have ever, EVER come across! It's in Mumbai, India and is rightly called 'Theobroma'. Sigh.

The illustration has all that I hogged on; from L to R:

Chocolate Overload Brownie: Crusty on the outside, dangerously gooey on the inside, with a heavenly butter-brown sugar base.

New York Baked Cheesecake: Will make you want to RUN to NYC without a doubt. I wouldn't say more:)

Ambrosio: A dessert so pretty you wouldn't want to eat it, but you will. Dark chocolate with a layer of thick raspberry jam-jelly in between. A bit of white chocolate on top, to make life better.

Custard filled cupcake: Least sinful of all, a squidgy, soft sugar coated cupcake with a horibbly soft, custard filled centre, perfect after a light lunch. sigh.

And then, eventually, there's me;)

All the dessert lovers, MUST leave feedback+their dessert stories:D

Gaga OohLala.

It all started one day when I was trying to look up for some Lady Gaga fanart and could hardly find anything that looked creative or original. Most of what I found was painstakingly done realistic portraits of her existing pictures.

So I sketched this out and finished it on Adobe Illustrator CS3. Took me a while to figure the software but it was good fun:)

(P.S. - The images look reaaally small in the thumbnail so please click on it to see the enlarged version)

Above (from L to R): The initial sketch, the traced outline, the filled in version, the filled in version with variation.

Once I finished this I guess I just got a bit carried away and did this tessellation with the form.

I think I'm becoming a sucker for vector art. Though nothing replaces my pencil and my brush pen:}

All feedback appreciated:D

Have a lovely day!

A Step Into Adulthood & Another Birthday

So, my birthday just passed on the 14th and I turn a tender 21. I am officially an adult and can officially get married. It kind of creeps me out a bit.

People sent wonderful wishes and I spent most of my birthday (and the day after that) replying to all of them:) However, it was checking my mail inbox that I found the most precious wish of them all and could not help but share.

I couldn't thank you more.

Also, I think this is the first time I've drawn myself with my lovely locks open and flowing:D

Have a lovely day!

Eye Am Watching You - Layouts and more

I feel horrid because I haven't updated in a while. Work on my film is progressing at a snail's pace, or worse actually. However these are some of the situations the character is in. The layouts are sketchy just so I can figure out the space in the scene.

Let me know what you think:)