Umbrella Magazine 2013 - a peak :)

A peak into an illustration for Umbrella Magazine, 2013.
Been working on it for a week now, and its finally done.

Its fun when you get a good article to work on.

Hopeless George ~ Umbrella Magazine

Had the pleasure to illustrate for the Umbrella Magazine, a free publication in the UK. The article concerned their chancellor George Osbourne and the austerity measures he's carrying out in the country.

Open publication - Free publishing - More architecture

These were the initial roughs, along with some ideas that were articulated in text.

Tehelka

Worked on an illustration for Tehelka's fiction issue. Tried something different again. It was nothing like this when I began and after very a many mixed reaction I was finally at peace with the one up here.

Its Out! :)

The Issue!



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My illustration with the article can be found here.

Excerpts

Editorials!

Been illustrating for GQ... and its great fun! Its allowing me to vent almost.. trying something new with every illustration, some work and some don't and they have to be redone, but getting an idea of what works and what doesnt for a reader. The magazine comes with its specifics, the specific "visually literate" demographic it caters to :P

Attempting different concepts and styles as per the article... its a quick timeline that is set...

Got the opportunity to illustrate for the GQ in the November issue :)

for February



This article was called "the Manifesto"... its about how the nature of The Man in particular has changed from that of the non political, barbaric and raw to that of one who minces his words and now asks for permission from his wife to do things... we don't know if this is for the better or worse but yeah I guess its true... he picks pink wallpaper for the house and makes polite conversation with his wife's friends... the article is almost a before and after where the man of the past looks at today's guy and says "You Suck!" hmmmmm...

for April



for May

The Bangalore Co.

  

     

What do i appreciate about Bangalore as a city? What would i like it to be known for? 

Especially when i ve been asked to brand it! For my illustration course, i decided to identify bangalore as a city recognised for its performing arts.  This would mean, creating a mock up for a new face or identity for Bangalore as a contemporary, cosmopolitain city and to visually interpret the term 'contemporary' with relation to the arts and to the present ways of life in Bangalore. 

Creating contrast between the traditional and modern was hard, especially when the arts are moving toward contemporarising the old. Bangalore is moving towards constructing a cross cultural platform where it shares, takes inspiration, exchanges at a global level hence it was difficult to identify the new cultural symbols that would lend themselves to the city the country and internationally. Point being : i need time to do more research :)

Stuff i was looking at :

Art and the city

Influence of the Attakkalari

IT influx and how it affected culture

Students and various exchanges

Bangalore as a contemporary, new city

Reinventing / re-interpreting tradition and folk

Bangalore as an international / cross cultural space

Concerts / Jazz / Blues / Rock / traditional / folk  

Contemporary dance and theatre