Breaking a hiatus!

This is a draft illustration for a children's book originally done for Penguin publishers. Penguin rejected this as the writer feels it to be too gothic for a children's book. Point taken and discarded immediately..... not doing anything for Penguin ever..... they need many more years to think out of the box! And personally I feel writers should stick to writing; or I do have a feeling upon reading the book that it's not so child like as the writer thinks it to be! But I would refrain from making such stupid comments... I would stick to art.

Colour scratchiness!

A few artworks for the 'Koel learns to Sing' book. I have been tripping on a scratchy style and experimented with colour this time. Since all the illos have a major portion of sky, I wanted to give different colour palette to it in each illo for different mood and ambience.
Someday would like to make green sky and still get away with it! : )

Another Cover Draft

This is for a book published by Penguin Books India.....

Cover artist!

This is for the cover of the 'Koel learns to sing' book..... not very bright and happy as a lot of people would like it to be... but I prefer it this way!

Ghastly Tales -2

Another stab at the cover for Classic Ghost Stories collection..... the earlier one was rejected for being too gory..... I have a feeling even this will be rejected for reasons not comprehended by me! Oh... this is a concept draft between.... though would like to keep the looseness in the final artwork also.

B/W scratchiness!

Some of the inside illustrations for a children's ghost/adventure/comedy book published by Penguin Books, India. (I'm not a kid anymore, but the story by Sonja Chandrachud is quite a treat!) It's titled 'Potion of Eternity: A Hilarious Hauntings Adventure'.

Birdie!

Concept draft of a character and style for a book illustration project.

Ghastly Tales!

This is a concept draft for a book cover; the book is a compilation of classic ghost stories.

Poster: Concept 2

A different concept for the same poster for Scholastic.

What's Cooking?!

This is a rough concept draft for a poster promoting Scholastic's new book releases. Though this got rejected, I somehow like it and wanted to share it here.

The Life of Mann: Chapter 4

The Life Of Mann is a collaborative online graphic novel project initiated by The Museum of Modern Fiction, led by Josef Lee, a designer / illustrator from Singapore. I was invited to do chapter 4, and after a lot of delay due to my regular job ( which I have quit incidentally), I finally managed to finish off the chapter. It was an enjoyable experience and reminded me again that graphic novels are not so easy to make!!
These are a few panels from the chapter. You can see the pages here: http://lifeofmann.com/story04.html