Beauty of western ghats ..

Few watercolors Done while travelling around Pune..
Waestern Ghats in rains.. heavenly ...!!!
best
ashwin

Some more Fashion Sketches !

Hi all ,
Posting a few more Fashion Illustrations , that i did for a client in Pune. Will post the final set of Illos I did ... this is in continuation from my earlier post LINK-HERE Had a really good time doing those in pencil & charcoal & then touching up digitally ! njoi

Some brushes to explore!

Hi posting a few explorations with verry good watercolor brushes that I found for PS CS4!
Was pretty happy with playing with those on canvas textures .. very interesting randomness in the B&W textures that I got within the brushes.. Its good to try & simulate the actual manual colors & ink behavior in the digital form :)
Cheers ;) !

Pintoo & giant

Hi all posting images from the book I illustrated "PINTOO & THE GIANT " for TULIKA publishers. Was fun doing those illustrations for Kids in watercolors, especially the exploration phase for chars & the style. I enjoyed it , hope u do too !
cheers

Keep rolling

Hi all..
That was a long break.. dunno why.. so just to keep rolling & be back in business ( of blog) posting some sketches that were pitched for styling of illustrations .. final style was a bit different though .. so thot of posting these ..
cheers & best
ashu

A rarity

Hi all,
Was listening to Beautiful song 'Piya tora kaisa abhimaan' by Shubha mudgal ( also another super version by Hariharan ) from movie Raincoat, on a rainy evening and sketched this from memory ! & threw in some color splashes. I do very less of memory character/figure sketching hence called this post a RARITY !
I thoroughly enjoyed while the water was flowing ... outside the window and on my canvas as well. I hope you do too !
Enjoy the rains !

Darkness & fireflies (part2) !

Hi all ,
Posting artworks done for a book of poems " KAALOKH KAAJVE" by my aunt Sau.Jayashree pathak. Also you can savour the short poems. This was the reason for earlier post as we had driven down to Nasik for the launch of the book. I was glad to get an opportunity to display some of the artworks there. More of sketches with inks & washes is what I did.. just to keep the expressive feel intact & supplement the lovely poems!
hope you like them !
Cheers :)

.. Contd ( with the hangover ) ..

Hi there .. going ahead from where i left.. adding some more quick doodles that I did on the outdoors .. and some more thumbnail wanderings I did a few days later.. ( i love doing those :P )
For the love of trees !!

enjoy !

What you see & feel !

Hi all
wanted to share this dearly ! I had a chance to go for outdoor sketching & painting with students of Symbiosis design school to the lush campus of PUNE univ. A scorching day @ 39-40 deg. Yet under the massive banyan trees felt nothing. Such was the cool shade & the breeze. The task was to draw , sketch paint what you see .. I wanted to draw what I saw but ended up drawing what I felt as the feeling was much stronger , peaceful & beyond !
Also ended up doing quite a few sketches which Ill update soon. What a nice little refreshing trip it was , felt a bit guilty for not doing such sketching+painting trips often .. Would really like to get away from those Monitors & go out in lap of nature more frequently ! hopefully I will ...

for Peace :)

For a few sketches more ..

All mixed... sketches + digital + watercolors some of my confusions & scribbles & thoughts n more.. cheers ! .....hic !

Let the Music heal your Soul !

What started as a casual sketch from a photograph .. while tasting some music ..played with water colors .. Feels good to go back to more tangible medium & take a break from digitals.
Was fun & quite enjoyed myself ! hope you enjoy too
have a colorful weekend !

Sketches & PS

hi there.. some scans of pencil sketches & worked over in PS .. to play with textures & all... basically FUN ! :)

Mixed bag !

.. some really random scans of doodles & fun .. cheers !