Monday, April 30, 2012

My 'Owl'ter- Ego

Here's yet another owl themed artwork. Do I have an owl- fixation or these birds actually are creatively inspiring? There's no limit to the amount of creative liberties you can take with the form of an owl. No matter how far away you stray from their realistic form, their hypnotic eyes are always recognizable.

This is an animated gif made entirely in photoshop. If you can't view it properly, I'm sorry I don't know how to fix it- you'll just have to take my word for it that it looks awesome :P

Sunday, April 29, 2012

For the Love of Dog

I've been doing a lot of quick movie-still sketches of late and this particular one is from the movie Chillar Party. It's one of my favourite scenes where Fatka & Bhidu are looking for a place to put up in, and see the old, abandoned, bright blue ambassador for the first time. There are several powerfully composed scenes in the movie and I couldn't help pausing & sketching every once in a while [needless to say, I still haven't finished the movie :P ].

This one is a careless quickie made in record one-and-a-half minutes, but I do believe that every Dog-film deserves its own full-fledged artwork. Do watch Chillar Party if you love dogs and/or kids and I'll try to remember to thank Ridhi for making me watch it!

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Think of the Devi...






This Devi illustration is one of my meagre achievements as an animator [Yes, she's an animated character, this is just a still from the movie].

I needed a cameo by the 'Supreme Being' for an animated short film. Unable to visualize anything that would look Supreme enough, I turned to good ol' Hinduism. I tried out several illustration styles, but after hours of sketching, experimenting and staring blankly into space, I settled upon this:





I took care not to make her Durga/ Lakshmi/ Saraswati by not giving her weapons/ wealth/ musical instruments. So I threw in all the general stuff and whipped out a diety that technically, I had invented.

Oh an here's the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLe0ZGT-ESs


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bulb-Heads Revisited





No. NOT Gautam Gambhir's birthday. This was a greeting I made for our Beatles-loving, humour-wielding, friend Tanya Gambhir. Not exactly a very profound piece of art [the greeting, not Tanya], I admit, but it should also be noted that this greeting was made despite the absence of any possibility of a Birthday treat. :P

Again, the Bulb-head style is what I use for most of my comic illustration. Check out the last post for another example ['Friends and Woes'].

Monday, August 8, 2011

Friends and Woes

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I made this one for a bunch of crazy old friends this friendship day [yes, I'm one those people who actually take this day seriously], even though my friends are the lot who'd choose chocolate cake over a painstakingly made, lovingly thought-out handmade card, any day. But I missed them all so much this year that I couldn't help putting in some poster paints and wakeful hours [and love] into this card and mailing it off to everyone.

Oh, and you'll see more of these stylized long necked people in my other work. I call them the 'Bulb-heads' [my sister calls them 'Ice-cream Spoon Men']. Great for comic artwork but with numerous restraints.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Owl's Well That Ends Well





Made this one quite recently, it's a quickie, really. It's been done in my favorite medium- the transparent photo inks. The colours were even brighter originally, I had to give it a uniform layer of watery grey to subdue the effect.

I love photo inks for the same reason most people avoid them for- their unpredictability. Their free- spiritedness. It's almost as if they have a mind of their own. Once photo inks touch the paper, your artwork is no longer yours. Which is kind of okay by me. I let them run around freely, do their thing. I intervene infrequently and unobtrusively. And somehow, the result ends up looking better than what I'd originally planned.

Of Visuals, Not Words

I've finally decided to set aside my usual suspicion of good advice & common sense- and make an online accumulation of all my artworks. So this blog here, is officially the portal of my sketches and paintings; and this that you're reading is its iconic First Post.

I'm ending my days as a moody artist [read: slacker] and beginning this visual saga. I promise to keep this blog updated with whatever joyous chimaera escapes my slightly wonky brain.

So you're welcome to keep coming here to feast your eyes :) I'll refrain from writing any further now, as this is the place for visuals- not words.