Face

Smile

This is a work in progress.... right now just trying to get the mood right!

Cover for Numbers...

Cover options for the numbers book; I prefer the blue one.

Speedpainting+Caricature!

Someone needed a quick caricature... and I needed to see if I can still make funny faces!

Halfbook fun!

These are for a children's book where each page has a character doing something. But the pages will be cut from the middle to make lots of mismatched funny characters until kids finally find the actual character. 10 characters will have some 90 funny combinations; and though it looks simple, it was actually quite a task doing these!
Hope kids enjoy the book!

Fireman as a baby!!

Fireman as baby and any such nonsense are just bluffs; this is general timepass in Flash and Photoshop!

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.