pictorialcinema at work

Ad campaign for PARLE NIMKIN biscuits

2011-03-27T05:01:00.000-07:00

This is a set of three images i created for PARLE NIMKIN ads. The client wanted to use it in various sizes for outdoor and print. I had to work in a way where the layout can be mutated and yet the essence remains the same. Finally i opted to work on individual characters and background pieces in as many layers as possible so later it can be adopted in various sizes. The three ads were set to release in three different states but later on the client released the ad in more places.
This was lot of work happening very fast but it was real good fun...I enjoyed this entire assignment very much. There is lot of bad drawing in there i need to work towards not repeating the same mistakes again.

Concept art for a movie pitch

2011-03-27T04:04:00.000-07:00

These pieces along with few more were created for a movie pitch. The directors wanted to share the flavor of the film with the producers. After few meetings and thumbnails we zeroed on the main set of images and characters to design. It was a short project yet highly enjoyable one. I had always opted to colour images in flat colours. But for these images a certain mood was required. I looked at it as an opportunity to learn to paint. It was real good learning experience...I guess i will have to do atleast 200 such pieces before i am able to paint decent stuff.

ONCE UPON A WARRIOR comic book adaptation

2011-03-08T10:41:00.000-08:00

This project is very special for me in many ways. 'Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu'(Once upon a warrior in english) is a telugu/tamil film directed by Prakash Rao Kovelamudi and produced by A Bellyful of Dreams Production and DISNEY. The film is driven by fantastic visuals. Extremely talented Raj Golay was production designer for this project and had designed some really awesome characters and set ideas.
People at Disney supported this comic book project which is straight adaptation of the film. Raj worked on the first half of the book and i took over from page 34 onwards.It was 39 pages pencils to inks in two months time. I tried to push my art as much as i could in this one and the project has been a great learning experience.
I need to loosen up my pencils and use time to ink the pages is the lesson i have learnt from this. I have also done the cover and worked on end credits for the film. Here i am sharing all the art with you guys.

GQ assignment for March 2011

2011-03-07T04:53:00.000-08:00

This cover assignment was an enjoyable assignment. People at GQ asked me to adopt the cover of cult game GRAND THEFT AUTO. Idea was to indianise it taking cues from the mumbai underworld. Ian at GQ made a list of ideas he wanted to explore for these visuals and made my work extremely easy. It also showed how observent he was of the subject. After a couple of roughs and colour keys i went on to make the final image.

I am unable to paint well and that is one thing i need to learn from basics. Its these assignments which help me learn more. Here are the pencils and colour roughs along with the final piece. Hope you guys like this.

Thanks to all guys at GQ i got to work on this piece.

Illustrations for LOOP mobile

2010-11-26T15:35:00.001-08:00

This set of 3 illustrations were done for LOOP mobile. These were to be finally put up as hoardings so i had done details on each piece keeping that in mind. Since these were to get adopted in various sizes, i made these with lot of extra background which was then darkened in order to pop the headline. For some reasons the campaign got cancelled and now these images will never get released. So here i am sharing these with you all.
Sharing thumbnails-pencils-inks and few images showing details of the piece. I have cropped these in size of a wallpaper...so if you guys like any of these images, feel free to use it as you r wallpaper...click a snap of your desktop with you and mail it to me.

hope you guys like these.

GQ assignemnts for Sept 2010

2010-09-09T05:12:00.001-07:00

Stuff done for the month of september..need to up the game and do better stuff for these.

Storyboard for UZER KHAN

2010-08-20T07:06:00.000-07:00

Hi this one was a mammoth board prepared to show the client directors version of their script. As always the agency script was very basic. Uzer wanted to present them a proper version of the same thing as to how he saw it happen in the film. Was real fun cracking the sequences one after another...This still has lot of loose ends.

The film finally never took off as the whole idea of cricket players being part of the show was abandoned...so the whole concept was tanked...Bad thing...
here it is for your viewing pleasure.

GQ assignments for AUG 2010

2010-08-20T06:58:00.000-07:00

Regular bunch of stuff for the month of august...so wanted to work on the slim pants kicking the baggy pants somehow had loved totally the madness in that piece...but the editorial team felt it was very comic. Love that piece so here it is for you guys to see.

KICK ASS fun stuff

2010-07-12T19:04:00.000-07:00

Reading kick-ass was totally fun.I love the book. I love the movie and i am waiting for the book 2.

GQ Assignments for June + July

2010-07-11T00:14:00.000-07:00

Hi all
I have been busy working some comic book projects and thus have not uploaded any new stuff on the blog lately. These were the active and groomign section illustrations i did for GQ. These appeared in the months of june and july. Did not take up sex talk and shrink for the same months as i was tied up with other projects...I will be uploading more from the current comic book projects mainly pages and all in some time. so stay tuned for more stuff.

The Owl

2010-05-06T07:10:00.001-07:00

THE OWL is a short story by Mr. Ratnakar Matkari. Its translated into english by Yogesh Chandekar for our ongoing short story festival on our FEAST website...This story will be uploaded in few days...I loved the mood and the backdrop against which the story is told...I just wish we adopt it for comic book format...would be super fun i am sure.

Here is the link to the website. You can catch the earlier short stories in the archive section. Enjoy and share with all your friends as well.
http://www.wix.com/thefeast/enter

GQ assignments for MAY 2010

2010-05-06T06:53:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, stuff done for may GQ...new feature has been started that is ACTIVE...good for learning the right way to exercise...i am enjoying it for now. All the roughs and final pieces for you to check...Had loved the guy with a candy for style shrink, was rejected...but i liked the way the rough looks...MOBY was the model i was following for that piece...

Zoom in

2010-04-05T05:18:00.000-07:00

These were done long time ago. This set of illustrations were done for JWT. Its for a booklet for nikon zoom lenses...Idea was to create a seamless zoom in kind of effect...so from a very wide shot of the city we are zooming in and the scene keeps changing as the sequence progresses...I enjoyed illustrating these. The effect is more evident if all these images play in a slide show format.

GQ Assignments for APRIL

2010-04-05T04:56:00.000-07:00

These were pieces for GQ april issue.
Sex talk spoke about how there is no perfect 10 when it comes to sex...Good looks might not mean great sex...True...So i did like 3 roughs for it exploring various ideas. Shrink was very straightforward...So here are the roughs and final illustrations for you to see.
Starting from april i am doing few infographics for GQ...these are real fun to work on and sometimes very very challenging...Such was the case with the illustration for one of the article...basically it spoke about packing your suit butler style...I did some roughs but those were not what the art director wanted...Finally they suggested we go extremely simple and do it in one frame rather then doing multiple or two frames...
so this was it...
Check and leave your comments

Qukie

2010-04-05T04:51:00.000-07:00

Its a great stress buster...Draw what you like...Just a quick sketch and colour in between hectic work for money. Hope to do a finished version of the same sometime soon...there are few other thumbnails i need to refine those...Hope to learn a few tricks from doing these pieces more often.

BATMAN

2010-03-03T11:47:00.000-08:00

Just an exercise to loosen up with my drawings/inks. This one was inked traditionally on paper and then coloured digitally. I love TIM SLAE's art a lot as it is heavy on mood...I need to get a lot of it in my work...I hope to work on more of these.

GQ assignments for FEB 2010

2010-02-24T11:50:00.001-08:00

This time i got to work on some tiny HOW TO illustrations...The size of these illustrations was very small. Earlier i had done similar stuff in different style but now the art director wanted to add some colours to it...Was really a good opportunity to explore stuff from a minimal colouring style method...I have figured out a few things while working on these pieces..hopefully i might be able to use it in a bigger artwork...Lets see till then have a great time and keep coming back.

2 weeks, 4 directors, 8 films, 172 frames

2010-02-24T11:42:00.000-08:00

As i was tied up with LIQUID COMICS project for last few months i was not accepting any assignments...It was almost 3 months since i did any boards. I was called many times but i kept refusing assignments...As liquid comics project was nearing its completion i got a call from SODA FILMS...they were working on two films and subject matter was interesting...I was tempted... First two boards were done for SODA FILMS - Director : RAJESH KRISHNAN...was good experience going for location recce and blocking shots...I should get to do that more often then i can perform better and upgrade my work...After that i did two different boards for 30 SEC OF FAME - Director : UZER KHAN...He was working on LG film and had got a storyboard made but was extremely unhappy with the quality as it did not capture any bit of what he wanted to do in his film...The LG board was done in 7 hours straight. Its mainly because the shots are mid sots and a lot of tilt and swing lense shots...then one more garnier film for UZER...after that 3 films for FOOTCANDLES FILMS - Director -AYAPPA...for the first time i did three films all for one client - one campaign but three different aspect ratios :)...may be the director wanted each film to feel different so this decision...then one more fair and lovely film for FOOTCANDLES another team Director - HIREN...Usual Unilever stuff so many things to take care of in that one...

all in all it was around two weeks, 4 directors, 8 films and 172 frames in total...
I have pushed myself to deliver frames upto all the directors vision for their films...It was great fun...more then the process of drawing/finishing the frames i love the process of brainstorming / decoding the film with directors.

GQ Assignments for Feb 2010

2010-02-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

Hi people, I have been busy with work for Liquid comics thus there are hardly any updates on the blog...I am not taking up any other assignments then GQ. These were the pieces done for February month...Sex talk talks about planning a birthday surprise...Style shrink comments on if your shoes and tie need to match or no...
I had loved the style shrink piece but i saw the issue today...in print a yellow patch has been printed it covers all the tonal values and its killed the simplicity of the illustration...Don't yet know if its a layout mistake or layout requirement.

Anyway here its all with the roughs so have a look and post your comments if any.

GQ Assignments for JAN -2010

2010-01-04T08:13:00.000-08:00

Hi All, A very happy new year to all of you and may you guys be more alert and sensitive towards environment this year onwards...This is a bunch of assignments done for the january issue. Sharing with you all the roughs done for the same...I wanted to work on the chess board don for the style shrink and for the sex talk i so wanted to work on the movie poster image...I should start playing with some other medias like ink and paint pencil on paper then just this digital thing...

I am tied up with one comic book project for LIQUID COMICS hence no uploads lately.
This year on i want to work on some proactive stuff. Lets see how it goes.

The Feast Website

2009-12-14T02:52:00.001-08:00

Hi All, hope you guys are doing fine. Yogesh has assembled a website for FEAST and other visions of malevolence. Here you can get complete info about the idea and creators associated with the project...We will be starting to work on the pages from January 2010 and then on will keep uploading previews/behind the scene stuff online on the wesite. So bookmark it and stay with us on the journey we are about to begin.

Hope you guys like this
http://www.wix.com/thefeast/enter

GQ Sex talk for the december 2009

2009-12-09T11:16:00.001-08:00

This month the article spoke about the combination of sex and luxury. How the most expencive hotels are made for great sex. For this one i wanted the piece to have a grand and lavish feel. As i did some scribbles i felt strongly for the one that was set in a rajasthani palace. With just the rough drawings i wanted to quickly do some colour test to jsut see how the feel can be enhanced...I don't know why but images from Tarsem Singh's 'THE FALL' were coming to my head...the strong colours against wide open spaces. I added red curtains and then some candles. Here i am sharing the roughs with the final piece. Hope you guys like this. let me know your thoughts.

The Feast and other visions of malevolence

2009-11-23T11:09:00.000-08:00

character explorations and four final pages from the story "The Feast". I will be working on three stories "The Feast", "The beckoning" and "Good Boys Come Home Before Dark"...we are discussing few technical details of the project with the publisher...We shall reveal the details once we finish the contratual formalities...And we have few other thoughts by which we want to make these stories available to wider audience...Just wait for some more time and we shall share further details with everyone here and on our website.

GQ sex talk November

2009-11-08T09:33:00.000-08:00

For the month of november sex talk was the opener of the section so for the first time i had lot of space to use.This assignment took some revisions and lot of realisations. The article was very very bold talking about various aspects of making love with explicit refrences to various positions. I felt it can be explored as bluntly visually too. Did the first round of roughs and it was approved...i finished the illustration...but then it was election time here and the editor did not want to take any chances where any political party can exploite the opportunity and attack their office...he felt it was too LOUD...could have been bold but it was Loud...I did realise he was right..i did a quick revision and the entire piece was redone as a different illustration. I liked it better.

Here are both versions. let me know what you guys think.

GQ Sex talk for October

2009-10-05T06:51:00.000-07:00

This article talked about how 90% females are unsatisfied by their male partners and still do not protest about it just so male ego is not hurt. It talked about how a man can know his woman had a great or good time....and so on.
i thought no matter how well built or sleek the guy is if he is going to fail 90% of the time is satisfying her then he is just a play thing for her. I wanted her to feel and look like this nature godess who is not really impressed by him. so the concept was explored in two sketches and then taken on to final.
I enjoyed working on this one and learnt that i have to keep my eyes wide open while drawing next time i draw her foot. Shes become a bog foot here :) there is never a next time and i screwed it up here.

PITCH FOR PICTURE THIS

2009-10-03T09:26:00.000-07:00

This set of 40 illustrations was created for PICTURE THIS PRODUCTIONS.I was working for them for the first time and they wanted to make images to convey their film. The entire first pass was done ina storyboard manner but soon the directors felt that it was not communicating what they wanted to say. They took some time and came back with the idea of getting rid of the backgrounds in most of the places and keep the focus on characters and expression to that the focus will remain on the story.
It was a good learning experience for me as well as i did feel the approach they followed was spot on. I liked working on the drawings as it was the most fun part then on its all technical inks and colour.

SHAADI KE LIYE

2009-10-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

These were created in lot of hurry for a friends wedding. He is a director with SODA FILMS and for his wedding he wanted to do some different invitation. After some discussion he came up with the ida of DVD dust jacket and inserts and he wanted to make it look like a film dvd. The 6 frames went for the cover. The couple on horse back was for the dvd back. One insert for sangeet card. And one for the envelope. Was a rush rush job for me as i was juggling between two other assignments. but in the end it was fun. Hope you guys like it.

THE FEAST final pages

2009-09-17T00:43:00.000-07:00

The pages for pitch are finally finished from my side..Lettering remains. It has taken insane amount of time to finish this pitch as i kept working on odd jobs for money. Finishing these pages makes me realise even more that this is the thing i want to do with my time...now only one thing remains to be figured out...how to make money while i do this:) in time that shall be sorted out too..
hope you guys enjoy these.

FEAST and other visions of malevolence (work in progress)

2009-08-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

WORK IN PROGRESS
I along with couple of my friends are trying to put this project together. Feast and other visions..are graphic adaptations of short stories by acclaimed marathi writer Mr.Ratnakar Matkari..The project as of now has 7 stories which we will be making into a graphic novel of 200 pages approx...These 4 pages are part of the pitch we are trying to put together..One more pass of greys is remainging then these will be finished. I hope you guys like these.

HELL HOUSE character explorations

2009-08-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

This was a 93 page graphic novel project for Cirque studio...I am not working ont he project due to some financial issues but i did some character explorations for the same. I wanted to go extremely graphic on compositions. could have added a lot of mood to the entire story which was very much a teen horror story. hope you guys like it.

GQ assignment 4

2009-08-25T21:32:00.000-07:00

This is done for Sex talk in GQ for the month of september. The article highlighted the importance of setting, mood and music while having sex. It talked about various songs that can be tried for various moods and how songs playing in background can affect your partner. few roughs as usual..the one that i wished would go for print and finally the one that went for print. hope you guys like it

GQ assignment 3

2009-07-05T23:30:00.000-07:00

Third assignment for GQ. My first time working on a feature that is an article spreading across 6 pages...feature was about plastic surgery and idea was given from the clients side to work on realistic drawing style like leonardo's. Since i m so unable to draw realistic i suggested to go a bit modern and get bit machine/digital elements in it...The whole assignment went back and forth many times as right from beginning the clients had a more realistic feel of the whole thing wehre as i was aiming for a more 2d approch...any way not the best of my assignment..could have been better.

Kaya skin clinic storyboard

2009-06-18T07:17:00.000-07:00

This was done for UZER KHAN through 30 sec of fame. Good fun no time.

GQ Mag assignment 2

2009-06-10T21:43:00.001-07:00

for my second assignment i get to work on the sex column. The article talks about various sex fetish people may have. Stuff written in were too funny or too gross. Pooping while having sex..One mans poop is another's chocolate...YUCKKKKKKkkk..
various stuff that would not be suitable for visual representation...there was some mention of wife wanting her hubby to dress up as teddy bear(this can be real considering how much chicks love teddie they might have their fantasies around it)...so i felt that exploring S&M would be a good idea as one mans pain is anothers pleasure...mixing it with weird clothing...The roughs shown here are gradual progression and improvisation of the same idea...Had loved the first rough but i covered her face there so the editor went for the third rough where we can see her face...The idea was to explore S&M concept in indian context...so its a wedding night and the bride and bridegroom...finally the chudies and mangalsutra did not look cool so had to remove it...but i loved the tought..may be some other time will explore the concept further.

was good fun. may be you guys like it too.

Audio Visual Presentation For Unilever India

2009-05-20T01:31:00.000-07:00

This was a little off the track kind of concept presented to corporate client. The Creatives from JWT wanted to make the AV based on superhero theme. Usually the Client would make an AV using footage and images from various place. This time they wanted to do something very different. So this had to done in a way where Unilever will buy into the idea.

These were the roughs done before starting onto the final to show the agency and client the look and feel we were trying to nail for the AV.

These are the final images used in the AV. Minimal animation was done on few images.
This assignment was completed in a weeks time starting from client approval on roughs to delivering the final product.

Storyboard for Bates

2009-05-20T00:35:00.000-07:00

This was a quick assignment that happened over two days as the ad agency had to present it to the client in hurry. Good Fun. Very short time so i had figure out techniques that will still make the overall board work visually. I love the slow mo car moving shots with the citylights reflacting on the body. Had seen a really amazing shot in the movie REVOLVER by genius guy ritchie where the car is moving in slow mo top shot and the lights r reflacted on the surface and moving almost like a belly dancer would move..really really awesome shot..I want to see how its done for this film will be a sort of challenge for the director i guess.

For GQ Magazine

2009-05-13T01:05:00.000-07:00

This piece was done for GQ Mag. Its a man's fashion magazine. this was for the Style Shrink section where readers style releted questions are answered by the stylist. this perticular question was about what kind of jacket might go with a perticular kind of trousers for evening wear.

few rough concets were submited and then the final illustration was done. Enjoyed this assignment as i realised this is a window to do some really different work from the comic/concept stuff i am usually working on. looking forward to work on more of these as it will give me space to expriment with my work.

samsung mobile storyboard

2009-05-06T09:44:00.000-07:00

Recently did board for samsung mobile phone ad for 30 seconds of fame. Director Uzer Khan. i tried out using actual backgrounds from location reiki and refs provided by the director. It helped in finishing the assignment fast with more accuracy. I am beginning to love working like this for boards as it gives a very clean final frames. earlier i did boards on paper and in certain small areas i had to compromise as drawing details were not possible. I am treating these storyboard assignments as a platform to learn and discover new working methods. It also provides a window to do something different from my graphic novel work. i am enjoying this atleast for now

Storyboard for sunfeast pasta

2009-04-23T10:18:00.000-07:00

This was the first time i tried doing the entire storyboard digitally. The deadline was short and it had plenty of frames and corrections as per the clients demands. This kind of assignment can be done in 3 working days that is something i learnt on this job. Was fun and a good learning experience.

The 19th Step storyboard

2009-03-28T22:42:00.000-07:00

This project is just too cool for more thn 10 reasons. lets see few of those.
a) Its a film project with a samurai in India (for me this is the coolest reason. In india we dont get to see samurai's in our films last time any one saw a samurai in hindi film that was PRAN playing a SAMURAI. lo kar lo baat).
b) Its got TADANOBU ASANO (Mongol,Itchi the killer,Zatoichi) playing the lead (I so love toshiro mifune and thought any director to have an actor like him is a gift and then i saw tadanobu asano he is just sooo unpredictable and excellent. one should check out the roles he has played...watch him play the bad guy in zatoichi, Ichi the killer...then go and see Mongol. I am a fan of him.)
c) Its a film directred by BHARATBALA. Working with him is really good as he told me only one thing "surprize me". He was very sure of what he wanted and why he wanted it. More fun as he gives you your freedom to perform.
d) music will be done by A.R.Rehman.
e) Film has Kamal Hassan too.
F) Asin as well.
the list can just go on and on and on. You watch the film when it releases.

So this perticular sequence was a training session. so they are not fighting with actual weapons but wooden ones. There were certain bar i was asked to follow. i have not incorporated all the frames from this board. Though it feels like an action sequence its not so...That you shall notice when you watch the film...Again this storyboard was done with a purpose of figuring out elements and props and ideas that can enhance the whole sequence...so you will notice there is no continuty in the props as each frame suggests a different prop.
I enjoyed working on this i wish i had more sequences to work on.

The collaborative effort

2009-03-28T21:59:00.000-07:00

Ratnakar matkari is an exrtreamly popular marathi writer. He has written many kinds of works from horror, slice of life, human behaviour, films, plays etc.He has penned down many short stories which have been adoped in radio shows and later for television.
Some time back Ashish had this idea to adopt his short stories into graphic novel medium. He has been a die hard fan of ratnakar matkari's work. Yogesh our writer heard it and he promptly agreed to work on the script as he himslef is a huge fan of ratnakar matkari. Both of them took lot of effort in taking this project ahead. Communicating with Mr.Matkari, getting his approval for this project, Editing, re editing, all of it to bring the selected 6 stories to final comic book script level. lot lot lot of work to get this project even to this pitch level.

I personally liked setups against which the stories take place. these are uniquely indian. As i got to know about the stories more from ashish and yogesh i really started loving the characters in each story. The old lady, the foodie, the kids, a small villege in rural maharastra, the houses these were some elements which i feel give a very very unique visual flavor to the whole story and it was all there written years back...so all we had to do was follow the guidlines laid in the story and try to reinvent it for today's audiance.

We have chosen 6 stories for this anthology. Total page count comes up to 180 pages. out of this 2 stories will be done by me "The Feast" and "Good boys come home before dark" totalling upto 50 pages for me. I am sure this project is going to be a lot of fun atleast for all of us working on it. Lets hope we get to get this book out fasssssssssssssttttttttt so that all you people can also enjoy it.

Boom comics CAPED covers

2009-03-13T10:35:00.000-07:00

These were 4 covers i did for Boom Comics for their title called CAPED. This superhero story is little bent. Funny in places yet brutal..Ian Brill was editor on this one...Was a good experience working on these as for the first time i worked on the characters designed by another artist.

Mumbai macguffin

2008-09-09T04:11:00.001-07:00

These were the first two images i had created for this project.....mainly i wanted to freeze on the look and feel for the whole project...CC's cab parked in a no parking zone became part of the story later on as he always parks his cab in a no parking zone in the story...fukku looks very healthy in this one but for the book i made him lean a bit more to his left.

These were the very first set of characters designed after the first draft of the story...sher khan and tithi dixhit couldn't make it to the final story.. instead 4 talibans and a gang of russian assians were added to the story

This one shows various stages of development for IKE's character...Since he was the lead character he needed to look right...from the start i wanted him to look like just another tourist in mumbai...so in the end everyone chose the orange kurta and cotton pajama look.

Mumbai macguffin

2008-09-09T04:08:00.001-07:00

Mumbai macguffin

2008-09-09T03:59:00.000-07:00

Mumbai Macguffin

2008-09-09T03:49:00.000-07:00

working on this project was creatively very fulfilling as i got to collaborate with saurav mohapatra...his ideas and dialogues were really cool and funny. He described the characters in detail and it helped in designing the characters...once character designs were done i began working on the look of the city and colours and how it the story will look once its drawn in panels...my prime focus was to get the look of the city right...the crowd..the road signs...the buildings...it needed to look authentic bombay the way it looks right now...the cityscape is a unique one as we see many 50-60 year old building surrounded by the skyscrappers...the story had very funny dialogues and it played a major part when i was styling the project...a slight toony touch in the expressions and the body language was added to suit the story...colours needed to showcase the vibrant streets of mumbai...The character development and drawing those characters panel by panel to tell a story was real good fun...I have enjoyed workin on this project massively… I have pencilled-inked-coloured this entire book so for me it was my first book where i got to finish my art from sketch to colour...hope you all enjoy reading it...

Devi

2008-09-09T03:35:00.000-07:00

This was a six page backstory of KRATHA from DEVI issue 11. Not her origin but one small episode from her life that basically will make readers aware about her attitude and why shes not so bad inspite of being a negative character....

other designs are devi's dark sideeeeee daanvi...and tara mehrta's younger sister avani mehta.

The secret of seven sounds

2008-09-09T03:12:00.000-07:00

The secret of seven sounds

2008-09-08T09:53:00.000-07:00

The concept of "THE SECRET OF SEVEN SOUNDS" was in a very raw concept state when it was given to me. Already the character were designed but i felt that those were very ethnic looking so i tried out a different route and redesigned all the characters...the good part about the whole project was i got to give a lot of ideas from my end in terms of environments and characters...currently this is being made into a animated feature film...should be out in theatres by mid or end of 2009.

vetaal 2006

2008-09-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

These images were created for "vetaal-the first vampire"in the year 2006.It was a concept by ashok banker...5issue miniseries horror/thriller story...The story took place in present day mumbai...i was very excited about it as it had lot of good elements and characters and i had an opportunity to showcase my city in a comic book...for some reasons the project did not go further then the visual development stage...These are some images from that project...It was a cool project and lots of fun.

ismile butcher

2007-02-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

Meet mr. Ismile, you cross his line and u r dear body parts will be hanging in his factory. A butcher who upgraded to an underworld Don. Runs a very successful chain of mughlai restaurent called "daavat-e-khaas" only u wont be sure if u will be getting mutton kheema or manubhai keema as its also a means of clearing killed opponents for him. by the way mr Ismile is also happens to be a full time underword don. running even succesful chain of crimes and criminals. mainly hafta vasooli, supply of gas, illegal dealing in weapons and passports, supplying underpaid labor in the arab countries and many more business coundected under his name he even doesnt know it exists. he likes sufi music, funds heavily for slum kids education and health programmes as he was once one of them. growing up in the slums of dharavi and working for a butcher in his shop as a cleaner leter to be butcher and then to kill the owner and own his business then supplying the meat to various restaurents and so on.

cover

2007-01-10T11:27:00.000-08:00

This is a cover for one of my friends comic book project.

sketch n final

2007-01-10T11:25:00.000-08:00

shruts

2007-01-10T11:16:00.000-08:00

an illustration i did for my best friend from her pic. took half a day to finish this right from sketch and the final clean up in flash. it was fun as i really liked her attitude in the pic. finally she asked me to sign it too.

:)

2006-12-02T09:42:00.000-08:00

one more for the road. i m really njoying to colour my illustrations in this style. would love to make a comic book like this. hope i get to do it soon.

miss keys

2006-12-02T09:35:00.000-08:00

my favourite singer. just wanted to try out the style of colouring. Took around 4 hours of work i guess.

zee

2006-12-02T09:33:00.000-08:00

this image is actually traced from a photograph. i really liked her smile and wanted to make it into an illustration the moment i saw the pic. should try out more stuff in the same style.