Sketchbook pages

Happy Holi

A Holi celebration page for TINKLE digest. Unfortunately, I couldn't colour it this time.

The Monsoons are far away... but anyway!

Well, this blog has been dead for a while! Starting with an old post! May be I'll post some more to keep it alive :)

This was an old cover for TINKLE digest.

MUZZLE of BLOOD

Publisher: TINKLE DIGEST
 Writer: Shreya Ghate

I have no qualms whatsoever, in admitting that I was sooooo inspired by Blacksad :)

Happy New Year

A cover for TINKLE.

Lost in...

There was an old man whom nobody knew...

The storyteller

Anybody there to listen?

Full of Life

Very quick...

Sami worked in a li'l comic book story

Sample pages (without the speech bubbles) :)

Christmas gift

Hope everybody got their gifts :)

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Young man, old woman!

My doodles and sketches are more like stress relievers these days! Geeeeeeeeee!

Doodles doodles 2

Doodles doodles

Where is my candy tree?

A quick concept sketch for my short film. People like Mr. Chaitanya Tamhane should note that it is NOT the way how the final film shall look.

Landscape

I took a week's painting tutorial from Milind Mulick. Found it very very helpful. Will join him whenever I have time to learn more.

Why not to be a dreamer's cat

A quick rough watercolor painting.

It so happened that I met a timid little cat on the stairway to my floor. I patted her, gently rubbed her head and went away. Her eyes I realized followed me till I had disappeared behind the door. Strangely so, I had a dream that night where I am a kid in a dingy old house with my paintings all over the walls and the little cat I met the same night, sleeping next to me. Don't remember much of the other details but then both of us started floating in the air. When I woke up in the morning, I just couldn't get over the idea of painting this.

So what you see, though is not one of the neatest attempts, but I cherish it nevertheless!

Long time...

Yeah... seems like a pretty long time since my last post. Shifted to my new hostel. Arranged myself a bit, and yes... back to colors.

The first post is the view through my window- a lot of construction going on.

The second is another of the random attempts to learn water colors.

Pages of my Intern Work

My internship under Abhishek Singh was enlightening. It was here that I decided to remove all the shoddy work I had done... was cathartic for me to an extent. Anyway, I feel good with the new posts.

These are the final six pages of my short story. People may find it linguistically deficient and obtrusively loose- because it is deliberate. And if you don't... THEN I really need to get back to my thinking desk. I try to chalk a character out that I don't expect to be grammatically honed. It is bound to have spices of Hindi all over her conversation. Otherwise she sounds pretentious and verbose. Anyway, lot of talking already!

Abhishek was happy with my work- gave me suggestions on where I could possibly improve. I am his humble fan! Keeps motivating me for better work.

Workshop by Milind Mulick

Milind Mulick took a two day workshop in watercolor painting. I don't know what more to add to defend the inadequacy I experience in the company of good mentors... but yeah... I did try, right... I did try to learn something.

It is a shame that I hadn't been into water colours all these years. Anyway, ditch the cribbing here.

Powai Lake

Some brush explorations again...