Friday 9 December 2011

testing testing..

Whenever i start painting an illustration i keep a strip of paper beside me to test and prepare colours before i paint it in. The last illustration i made was so colourful that even the strip looked pretty by the time i finished! 
I added a little me on top to finish it off!

Sunday 4 December 2011

letters are fun!

I took a break from drawing on postcards and drew on an envelope instead.
I love writing letters and drawing on brightly coloured envelopes. 
Letters make separation fun! :)

Wednesday 30 November 2011

birthday yay!

Tomorrow's my birthday! 
Yay!
I'm going to be celebrating in Diu, a little beach town.
It's going to be a day of sun, sand, fried fish and beer!
Woooooooooooo! :D



Monday 28 November 2011

Beaten Black and Blue

This is one of the illustrations i made for a short story from a collection of stories by children, for children. The book is called 'By Us, For Us' and is being published by Katha. (check them out!) 
It is another story form the same book in my previous post.
This particular story is called 'Beaten Black and Blue' and is about one politician's suitcase that saves India from the clutches of his corruption.
It's a lovely story. Do buy the book if you see it!
(click on the image to see more detail)


Saturday 26 November 2011

Rover the dog

This is one of four illustrations i made for a short story. 
It is part of a collection of stories written by children, for children, and illustrated by various people. The book is called 'By Us, For Us' and is being published by Katha.(Look them up!)
The book is being launched on the 29th and i'm extremely excited!
The story I illustrated is called Rover the dog, and it is a sweet story about Lila, who can't find her dog, Rover anywhere. She searches high and low and then finds him in the most unexpected place!
Do buy the book if you see it!


Thursday 24 November 2011

one of those days

It's one of those days.  
Everything seems wrong, just, wrong. 
When nothing you do makes you feel better. 
All you want to do is sit in the corner and cry.

Thursday 10 November 2011

twitterer

My friend, Kalapi, had asked me to create an avatar of him for his public profile on Twitter. After making a few drawings, I sent him the final one along-with a scan of all the doodles around it. To my surprise he ended up using most of them! 
I dislike twitter but i feel like visiting his profile just to see my drawing! :)




Wednesday 9 November 2011

Shilpa

Another book-converted-into-monster book, and oddly, my first female monster. (I've been neglecting gender equality!) 
She's on her way to party. 
Female monsters have busy social lives you know.



















Also check out my friend Karno's monsters
I think Ramola and Shilpa would have been very good friends.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

sabhabathi

I converted another book into a monster. This one is called Sabhabathi. 
You can call him Sabby for short!
I quite enjoy converting my books into monsters. 
I think i should make it a ritual.
You can see my first monster-book here.


Sunday 6 November 2011

dinesbhai

I'm on a monster roll!
It occurred to me recently that i have been in Baroda for over 6 months and i've become quite fond of both the place and Gujarati people! High time then that i make a gujju monster, isn't it?
Meet Dineshbhai.
He's a sweet and rather shy guy. 
He's the silent type.
He's gujju (obviously).
His favourite 'snakes' are kites, preferably sweet ones! :P

The photograph, unfortunately, is not mine, only Dinesh is. I drew him on a postcard i picked up in Ahmedabad.

Sunday 30 October 2011

halloween horns

This halloween my friend wore an awesome pink wig with horns. 
I want one too!



Monday 24 October 2011

flipkart

I am absolutely, totally, head-over-heels in love with flipkart! I love how books i can otherwise never hope to find arrive so deliciously packaged at my doorstep! My wishful wishlist is (as expected) just about endless and my obsession with it is bordering on unhealthy. I check it every single day and it takes me all my willpower to move my cursor away from that tantalising Buy Now button.


Sunday 9 October 2011

petite éclairs

Nowadays, I seem to swinging from drawing to cooking an awful lot. 
My most recent adventure with the oven was petite éclairs. They weren't actually supposed to be petite, i couldnt find the right nozzle size so they ended up mini, but they're tasty anyway! (and they sound fancier when i say petite éclairs! :P)
Turns out eclairs are quite easy and fast to make. Unfortunately, they're even easier and faster to eat! This lot lasted for about 10 minutes before they were gulped down. 


As you can see, my brother enjoyed them quite a bit! :)



Thursday 29 September 2011

garba

This is how i garba.

postcard 10: home

There is something extraordinary about the beach. It's so calming. No matter how sad, angry, unhappy i feel, a quiet hour at the beach with the salty sea breeze and the sand between my toes make me feel at peace.

Tuesday 27 September 2011

I was flipping through my log recently and found a forgotten doodle. I really ought to have put this up a very long time ago! 
For Easter last year my friend Vishnu gave some of us the most delicious chocolate bunnies to eat. Over the next few weeks our fridge was littered with headless, butt-less and various other parts-less bunnies. I figured their conversation in the recesses of my fridge went something like this.


This is what the actual chocolate bunny looked like.
 
You can see the bunny Aaju received, here.

postcard 9: metamorphosis complete

Finishing off what i started!

Sunday 25 September 2011

postcard 8: *cough

Asthama problems. Several month's worth of dust accumulated around the junk lying in my room finally got to me. 
My lungs were complaining. :(

stamp tramp

stampFor as long as i can remember i've loved rubber stamps. When i was a kid i would steal my dad's office stamps and ink pad and stamp them all over my books (and an occasional wall).
Recently, (joy oh joy!) Kalapi made me one as a gift. 
It is awesome.
(Most available surfaces in my room are now stamped with my name.)