Practice.

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.

Papa Pancho!

Working on the new Papa Pancho! recipe book. Just gotten the hang of drawing Papa and going a little crazy with him :)

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

Studio

Took my new 550 D for a spin the other day and what better place than a shoot. The light is right where you want it. The people are right where you want them. Feels Good :)

"India Is... Video Challenge 2011 (final)

Dr. Shashi Tharoor on 'India Is' Global Video Challenge 2011 from India Is Video Challenge on Vimeo.

India is has been designed and managed by Skarma, they're Mumbai based and I worked with them on it as the illustrator and art director. Worked alongside animator Riya Kuwelker.

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Original Artworks

The Mumbai Film Festival

Helped Vidha put together the Mumbai Film Festival Posters.. It was fun working on the last few days of it, she's been at it for a few months!

Both of us sat together one evening and tried to boil down what would be iconic about the watching a "Mumbai Film Festival"
... when my dad came along and started telling us little stories around filmmaking. One of which was about the film cans and reels being taken by handcart or a cycle from one theatre to the next between the 3:15 and the 3:30 show.

Finally at the end of the day, even a film takes a cycle, or a handcart and has to travel amongst the everyday. That's Mumbai :)

Flipping through magazines

I've decided i'm putting the magazines lying around the office to some better use... Also try a bit of realistic rendering.. Its convenient to shy away from it... I've also taken out the watercolour kit now.. its bin drying up :( Anybody want to post me a spraycan? I've been using a toothbrush... You can send me those too though.. :)

faces pt 3

Manasi Lamba

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 Box ~ a series

An exploration of the box using found images and a photocopier.

What is the box?

What does the box do?

Open publication - Free publishing - More process

Postcards from Malaysia

Ahhh.. boardwalk, beaches, blazing sun with bits of rain.. hot bikini girl on the beach who features a little after this... and amazing breakfast buffets :) Not to mention swimming races and the bouy that we dared to touch far out in the sea... 'Jaws' popping into my head every 30 seconds... Angad's friendly blue fish and its family that lived a foot under the water :P
I wouldn't forget the Burjaya, it is one of the best hotels i've been in :) Not to forget the prying monkeys



The red flag that warned people of the tide, well for us it was a warning that Angad had probably knocked over the coast guard.



Leeches. Leeches. Leeches amidst the 3rd oldest rainforest in the world! Taman negara with its canopy walks, barking deer, Fish and rice and reaally long boat rides...



aaaannnd the checkered bikini! she suspiciously kept looking over her glasses at me drawing her.... all was forgiven when she saw the sketch :P