Gaga Rules Everything Around Me

Hello!


It had to happen. My hands were ACHING to draw another Gaga. I hadn't done a finished, nice Lady Gaga illustration in a long, long time. And Kaveri had been, for too long, telling too many people I'm married to Gaga. So well, here it is :)

ANNNND, does anybody remember Bechain Nagri? It is back with a boomboomBANG, LOADS of new sketchbook prints and new illustrators on board! Check THIS space for more!
Also, I worked on more prints for the new range, and it is all mad, cute, annoying schoolkid series.

 
 Also, me and Kaveri went to Kyoorius DesignYatra, with loads and hoards of Bechain Nagri sketchbooks for sale! The response was amazing, and we had a pretty hard time keeping up with the sales sheet and the moolah-management. This was a poster we both worked on for the event, based on a sketch Mana did!

Ha! Do leave feedback!
And have a wonderful, wonderful day while I go and get me some much required sleep! :)

Of Tributes in Music & Fashion

Hi all.

I heard of Amy Winehouse's death through a message on my phone a friend sent me. And it came to me a such a shock.

More so because though I had been listening to her music for a long time, it was those days I was checking up on her site on any update on a long due new record. And then it was just blank.

I've been wanting to draw her for too long now, I thought of many compositions. Then this happened.

I loved every bit of working on this. Also, 'Wake Up Alone' from her second and last studio album, Back to Black is my favorite song by her. RIP Amy.

I've been working on some vector art as well! Portraiture is something I don't consider my forte. And portraits in vector, well. This was a noble start.

I stumbled upon Graffiti6's music and loved it! So here is Jamie Scott's portrait! Their up and coming album 'Colours' is amazing, must listen!

Also, Nicola Formichetti. He is god. And is constantly on a move to change the face of fashion. Whether it be Mugler, Uniqlo or styling for Gaga, he never fails to amaze. So here it is, a portrait of him.

It started out as a mindless, fun sketch in one of my old, old sketchbooks and became this! I might add to it and make all the character profiles :)

So yes, shoot shoot with feedback :)

Have a nice day!

22 years, 1 Film // Eye Am Watching You

HELLO!

Ok, I admit I've become highly un-creative with my post titles. To be able to come up with that! :P

Either way, the long wait is OVER! My film is DONE! And it feels better because IT IS MY BIRTHDAY and I'm at home!!! :D

Here goes,

Eye Am Watching You // 4 min 33 sec

The story revolves around a seven year old, Reema and her conscience.

Based on a partially true story, through the eyes of my convent- bred mother.

Eye Am Watching You from Jasjyot Singh Hans on Vimeo.

You can see some of the rough layouts and rough composition stills here :)

Here are some of the screenshots!

This film has taken an incredibly long time to get done and I've learnt a lot on the way as an illustrator, as an animator and as a storyteller. However, this remains my first effort, so do let me know what you think :)

Feedback of all shapes, shades and sizes welcome :)

Have a lovely day!

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 :)