Everybody on this planet has a story to tell! - The Story Book

A friend  of mine once told me that he can do anything with his life and still remain a storyteller. To which my reply was 'Aren't we all?' . We all are storytellers, aren't we? We all have the story of our lives to be told. We all have our different stories. And that is what makes us different and yet, we all are the  same storytellers!

So that brings me back to my storytelling! 

Sketch of Kirtimukha from Ajanta's cave no. 2

I've been dying to post a lot of stuff on my blog  from so long. So this post is dedicated to all that. This is a compilation of a lot of stuff. hope you enjoy it.

Oh well, the topmost sketch has an amazing story. The sketch is of a demon from Hindu mythology called Kirtimukha. Lord Shiva was to marry Parvati, daughter of the king of Himalayas. Jalandhara, conqueror of all worlds made fun of this. He said that the princess of Himalayas deserves a king like Jalandhra than a beggar like lord Shiva. Lord Shiva got very angry when Rahu delivered this message to him. Lord Shiva's third eye opened and gave birth to a ferocious demon. This demon was lord Shiva's wrath that wanted to consume Rahu. Rahu begged for his life. Lord Shiva stopped the demon but the demon was hungry and begged for food from lord Shiva. Figuring out the uselessness of the daemon now, lord Shiva asked the daemon to eat himself. When the daemon was was left with his head alone, lord Shiva gave him the title Kirtimukha- the face of glory. Kirtimukha was now immortal and now adorns the top of the enterance every single Hindu temple.

Coming back to the blog! -

random sketches of body dynamics. I dint really want it to be the usual anatomy, so I made the characters a little edgy, almost a wire-frame.

This one has a grown up and a baby penguin and two
 polar bears. The little rectangle there has a rough sketch
of my layouts.

This picture and the two that follow are some rough
 sketches for my college assignment. We were asked
 to design a poster on any issue concerning our
 world today. I took global warming. This picture has
 a grown up and a baby sea lion.

This sketch was the one that I took for my final layout- a baby polar bear and a lil penguin .

I guess its a lot for one post. I'll post the rest soon, including the final poster of the above. Hope you liked it!

Mumbai Comic-con!- An awesome day!

This post is really, really special for me. I've been following Abhishek Singh's blog for a year and a half and I finally met him at Mumbai Comic-con express. He is as awesome as one could imagine! The best part is that he sketched for me and all of my friends! It was amazing.

Amazing bobble heads at the convention. Couldn't buy one, 2-3 grand for one!

Here are some pictures from the comic convention. I haven't clicked all of them. I took some of them from my friends. Hope you like it and make it a point to be there the next time!

Abhishek talking bout his upcoming graphic novel- Krishna, coming out on 5th December. Pre-order your copy now!

The rapid sketch that Abhishek sir made for me. I actually took a printout of his work for his autograph. He turned it over and sketched this for me instead. I couldn't have asked for more!

We found sponge bob! There was a workshop by Nickelodeon in the afternoon. We had  to leave early so we couldn't attend it.

There's this shop at Churchgate, Mumbai that was also there at comic convention the last time. The only difference this time was that they were letting everyone try their Letraset markers. Hurrey! They are much similar to copics. My first time with these markers and I quite liked them !

I wish I had some photographs of the cos-play. There was this shop with a lot of wigs and fancy costumes. I wanted to paint my friends face but wen didn't have much time for that. You can check out the Mumbai Comic-con website to check out all the awesome cos-play . click here!

Splended Experience- Ink Conference in Marriott Pune

So I happened to be in Marriott for the Ink Conference 2012 (for FREE!). Ink Conference is just like TED Talks, It was Ink which brought TED to India. It was  a splendid experience to be there. Here are some pictures I clicked when I was there.Most of the pictures here are of the art galleries.I feel privileged to be there.  Loved the whole experience!

The first two pictures are of  Noorie Sadarangani.

The ceiling hanging telephone chandelier, 

The red hot chair with orange and green and orange old style storage cabinates. 

I just love how the purse adds up to the beauty of the whole composition.

The luggage kept near the reception looked beautiful! They themselves looked like an artwork.

'Average Mumbaikar' by Bose Krishnamachari. Tiffin boxes with tiny LCDs inside. The very look of it blew my mind!

The Chandelier in the conference hall and the beautifully planned out lighting- Superb!

Francesca Rosella, designer from Cutecircuit talks about future of fashion and LEDs!
go on this link and find out- http://www.cutecircuit.com/

I actually have no clue about whose artwork this is. I had my Art@INK2012 booklet which had all the names but I managed to loose it! If anyone knows about the artist please let know!

That's it for now. I'll post something new as soon as possible!