Bond.

Illustration with kids at the Oberoi School

Got invited to the 4th grade at the Oberoi International School in Mumbai to speak about illustration and "The Creative Process." 

It was great fun, the kids and teachers were great and the response was brilliant.

Spoke about a lot of things that I hadn't expected to come up. In the beginning I kept telling myself that I have to simplify the ideas I needed to speak about however, was pleasantly taken aback by how well the kids were able to grasp ideas and ask questions! 

A day in the Life of India... Kalaghoda Festival

These were made by us at the office in collaboration with Umbrella Design... Unearthed the pictures, they were up at the Kalaghoda Festival 2010 i think...

Banners :)

I think we're one of the last few places that paint banners. To think we started the biz with this, its become a pretty niche product, a banner, where prints sell for more than the paintings at times. Letter artists, mixing specialists and the assistants who first draw the graphs for the subjects to be filled in, all come together to put stuff like this together. I've grown up with these people around me, stories of my father cleaning brushes and palettes for his pocket money... so the few times nowadays, that a banner does get painted, I document it.

The one above was made for a bollywood themed wedding, the face cutouts where one can put their heads in and take a picture. This one was lying in my shed, and was about to get painted over.

Sherlock - Minimalist Posters

These have helped greatly in getting over a recent obsession.
I am addicted to the BBC's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.
I don't think i'm the sort to go to this length for a TV show, and I watch and enjoy many.

I've always wanted to have my own series of minimalist posters for something and I was a bit pressed for time, so I've kept them very simple. Had fun making them :) Took me a day to make them while I waited for prints from another project.
I have 2 more left though...

There are numerous takes one can have when everything is "minimal"... I chose to go with a more figurative approach. one route was also to iconise the key objects that define each episode or case. However similar things had already been done. I'd like to screen print these, so kept them down to 2 colors. Let me know if there are any takers out there? :)

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 :)