the trinity

generic stuff...

Characters

These are some old sketches in a new avatar...
Post pen tablet, Illustrator and Photohop

Raavan Must Die

This was something I did on Dussera. I'm putting it on the blog two weeks after Diwali...
Just shows how slow I am on the upload :)

Random stuff I happened to dig out of the closet....

Arambol!

Arambol is one of the finest beaches in Goa. With a fresh water lake within hundred yards of the surf washing in from the Arabian Sea, it is undoubtedly the most distinct! The fresh water lake is formed by a little rivulet running down the hill adjoining the beach. Halfway up this hill is a natural tub formed because of the evening out of the slope and is bracketed by the famous Multani Mitti. You can sit down in this little bathing pool, rub the Multani Mitti into a paste and wear possibly the oldest, most natural and (perhaps) the most effective face pack in the world!

Artists will love the idyllic setting of the Arambol marketplace along the ridge leading down to the beach. Very picturesque!

Quick sketches from a Goa trip

Sculpture sketches

Another trip down memory lane...

Sketches of sculptures done in Sasavne at the museum of the late sculptor Shri Vinayakrao Karmarkar. We spent several hours sketching here. Karmarkar was a remarkable man and an unbelievably gifted sculptor. A lifesize stone buffalo in the lawn outside looks like it'll move any second. The sculpture of a young adolescent girl - Hira Kolin - in the museum upstairs frequents the imagination of boys fifty years after it was sculpted. The two sketches here are of sculptures of JRD Tata and a young lady.

Mandai

Outdoor sketches besides being a lot of fun, have the power to rediscover the beauty of places that have lost their charm because of over-familiarity. When somebody in Pune mentions Mandai, people think vegetables, the maddening crowd, the cramped little lanes, the horrors of trying to find a parking place, the annoyance of having to go there on an errand...

In the midst of all this, the inherent majesty of its architecture is easily lost... Park your bike across the street, pull out your sketch pad and there's a good chance you'll find it again...

The Eiffel Tower

Did this one some years ago.... It was a lot of fun but it was basically a Parisian drawing made in Pune... I hope some day there'll be one I've done actually sitting in front of the Eiffel :)

This is a sketch I did for a story sometime back. One of the first... It totally defined the style for me and the illustrations were underway...

night sketches

Putting up some sketches I'd done some years ago.....

A couple of friends and I had gone to a coastal village called Sasawane. Laid-back, tranquil, unchanged for ages... We spent the mornings sketching. We spent the afternoons sketching....and at nightfall we gave the bats company with our sketchpads in tow. Monotonous? Nah...it was fun!

The first sketch here was a place down the road from where we were staying. The bright red lantern was a remnant from last Diwali and someone had forgotten to take it off. Bless his soul. It complimented the blues perfectly!

The next one was done at roughly 3.00 am from the sit-out of a lovely bungalow on the beach, we had the good fortune of staying at for a couple of days. Mumbai sleeps on the horizon, with its necklace of lights. It was a beautiful sight. This sketch was done in pitch blackness since we had absolutely no source of light in the garden outside, except the moonlight. Moonlight is very poetic but has its shortcomings if you're depending on it to help you distinguish between Carmine and Crimson or virtually anything actually, at 3 in the morning. We had a great time though.

The next morning, we discovered there was a cremation square in the adjoining yard. Thankfully, that was next morning, or this sketch might've never happened...