Illustrations for LOOP mobile

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

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

Storyboard for UZER KHAN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.