Winter Day 08

GIF scenes

Keeping in mind my last post, this one is basically skimming on the surface of the '14 days leading upto 100 days ' idea.

Work has gotten busy in the good sense so creating GIFs on the side does certainly seem rather daunting as compared to my situation about a month ago.

Nonetheless, today's GIF is one i've stalled for a while now, constantly deleting keyframes because of confusion randomly sprouting due to the increasing workload. But it's finally done and i'm happy about it.

Thanks for reading!

Valentine Cats

Valentine Cats

Here's a little something something for all you cat lovers out there! 

They're a set of cat illustrations made during that special valentines countdown period.

Personally i've never eaten a sweet heart with a message on it, this will remain a valentine mystery for me until it finds it's way into Indian territory, until then i'll stick to drawing them out!

Blues

Have you ever been frustrated when you're not able to draw?

Today was one of those days for me, and i just felt like i had to post something. But nothing was finishing and neither was it making me feel good!
Perhaps i'll update on this tomorrow? And a little more on whats been up and about this side...

Regarding updating this post today. i think i'll continue with doodles for a few days.

Here's me prowling around spice gardens sometime in December while in Kerala.

spooky nights!

I've been getting strange dreams for a few days in a row now! And what better than to put up a post on Halloween!

I know it isn't a big thing here except for the parties which happen where everyone dresses up like a well oiled black cat with a lot of bling :) I've read a lot about this whole pumpkin craze and have always wanted to carve my own pumpkin. As a kid i used to always be on the lookout for a huge orange vegetable to carve on and as soon as i'd find a vegetable vendor, he'd have already cut the not so orange pumpkin into slices. I doubt anybody would appreciate eating pumpkin pulp for a week at my place anyway so it's good i didn't get my hands on one. The thing which used to fascinate me the most was this whole 'trick-or-treat' business. Candy is my biggest weakness and i'd do anything to dress up and get candy for being a cute ghost or something!

Anyway!
Random doodles in the good spirit of this curious holiday!

Thanks for looking!

pumpkin flavoured cupcakes would be strange

my cat fascination kicks in!

small small...

Just a post jury update of some digital and sketchy stuff. My eye infection seems to have subsided , and with that i've learnt to put eye-drops by myself as well. It's so much easier when someone is putting it for you, such small luxuries are always easily overlooked.Hence the saying 'you don't know what you've gotten until it's gone' holds so true.

2009, NID cats love sleeping and i love them so, even if they scratch me or go bipolar on me!

Summer sets in so quickly in Ahmedabad,before my jury 2009

The NID design fest poster which i made
with typography very patiently added
 by my Graphic Design Junior Pragun Agarwal.
 Many many thanks to him.

Winter is my favourite time of the year!

My Skyrim character enjoying some sweet rolls and mead
at the Thalmoor embassy. Another summer time doodle

Here's a song which i've always enjoyed, and probably goes with the mood i'm in right now as well.

summer time

The summer of 2012 was spent in Bombay interning at Turner Broadcasting. Whenever i found some free time i was constantly working on photoshop and painting things everyday.
I've always been a HUGE fan of digital painting and i've always found my attempts to be less than perfect and thankfully, this feeling helps me paint more and more everyday, because you never know what effect you'll come up with each time.

I've just put together some stuff from this summer
I enjoyed doing all of them because there were so many things which i kept figuring out every time i picked up that stylus.

my first, my hands got terribly tired after this

sick of strokes so i decided to do some vector stuff. This was made in fond memory of a doodle i n my best friend's sketchbook

a fox never ceases to amuse me, i wish i could make dress fold better. This dress looks like a fondant cake

lets forcibly make some stuff so that i can calm my paranoid self into believing that i'm still capable of doing digital painting

Egypt is such a lovely place, animal worship is so divine

Fan art for the french movie 'Le Chat du Rabbin' or 'Rabbi's Cat'

I forgot to add that i have a deep mermaid fascination as well

Parth was very happy when Diablo 3 came out and so was i, if he plays it then i do too :D

Draw this again

I came across a few artists on DeviantArt who had done this exercise where they'd dig out a very old piece of artwork and redraw it to see the way they've progressed over the years.

I found this idea rather interesting and decided to do one of my own.

Thanks for looking! :)

A small and very old test animation i made just for fun when i was bored. More catty animations in the future i hope!

Parachute cat from Aakanksha Mittra on Vimeo.

Illustration with Priyankar Da

During our second year of animation at the National Institute of Design, we had an illustration course with our alumini faculty Priyankar Gupta. Some of the final results of the course :)

my illustrated view of the phrase "no place to swing a cat" inspired by the popular dance form 'swing'

a series of postcards from Manipur, done with the painful crowquill

a monochrome illustration which had to catch an essence of the story "Toba Tek Singh by Sadat Hasan Manto " 

an endangered species poster which had to only have the word "save" on. it. I chose to bring the African Wild Dog into the lime light!

Thanks for looking! :)

why hello!

So this is me, FINALLY starting my very own blog, it's title lovingly inspired from my favourite game series- the elder scrolls. Just posting a few old sketches for now

 

most of the animal sketches were early sketches from when our faculty took us to a glorious cantonement where soldiers trained with horses!

And then the usual scenes from in and around our campus...