Short break from Film Noir

Last week I gave finishing touches to the final page of Dead Rain 2.0,  my second comic with Ram V. With that, I'll be saying au revoir to film noir for a short while. A ten-day sabbatical now, and I'll be starting my next big comic - a 40 page surreal drama with Jai Undurti and Valeria Starovoit - called The Game. I will also be doing a 6 page pitch for a major gig with upcoming Canadian writer Malcolm McLeod during my spare hours. And on the animation front, something very exciting has come up. It's a bit too early to be talking about it, but let me just say that I'm super-excited! 

My visual approach to The Game is going to be entirely different from the high contrast black and white style I've used for Dead Rain. So I'm hoping that I'll be geared up for that by the 20th of this month. In the meantime I should be uploading plenty of warm up pieces in my sketchbook blog . For now, let me sign off with Inspector Dev stopping to catch a breath 

P.S: Black Mumba is a graphic anthology written by Ram V, and it features stories illustrated by me, Rosh, and Devmalya Pramanik. You can read more about it HERE  

Shattered Cop

Since I haven't shared any artwork from my projects in a while, here's a little something for y'all. One of my favourite half-spreads from Dead Rain, a comic I'm doing with Ram. Can't wait to see the graphic novel in print

RIP, Alan Rickman

A quick tribute to a man of wicked charm and magnificent screen presence. RIP, #AlanRickman 

Tardis

Because there is a lot more to blue telephone boxes than what you see


Who else is a Whovian here? 

The Woman at the Bar

This warm up piece was inspired by one of Fabien Perez's paintings.
Just wanted to see how the artwork would translate to my style of comic art

P.S: A few new mini-comics have been added to my Sequential Art Blog

September 2015 - The Art Drop Month

Friends and fellow artists- especially Rosh and my wife Merryn - had repeatedly hinted that I should be getting ready for The World Art Drop Day which fell on 2nd September this year. When the day finally arrived, all I had was a silly excuse that I've been busy with umpteen other things and hence had absolutely zilch to offer. I did not sleep easy that night. The next day, I woke up determined to make up for the lapse on my part. And this is what followed...

Black Mumba - Teaser

A lot has happened this year that I haven't chronicled in this blog. So it is only fair that I share these three pages from the project I'm currently working on. Ram V and I had done a shorter version of this story last year and it appeared in an anthology from Sawdust press called Blood Root. This time around we have many more pages to play with. I don't think I'll be sharing any more artwork from this project before its release. But I do intend to put up all the original artwork (except the ones that contain spoilers) and a limited number of reprints for sale once the book is out. You can read more about this project on the page --> Black Mumba

Chandelier -57th Grammys

 Here's a piece of fanart of Sia's amazing performance at the 57th Grammy's with Kristen Wiig and Maddie Ziegler

Workstation

One of the best things in this world is the feeling you get when you've successfully completed a project. Did the last set of pages of a short comic today. I'll be putting up all the original artwork for sale once the work has been published. More details on that later. For now, here's a sneak peek.

Virtual friend

May be deep down you have a human soul... or may be I'm just an embodied informational pattern

Sneak Peek

Discarded panel from a Comic I'm doing with Syenagiri. The script written by V.Starovoit and J. Undurti is by far one of the most complex and layered ones that I've come across till date. The project has been challenging, and thoroughly enjoyable so far. Watch this space for more updates

Dead Rain

Sneak peek into an ongoing Graphic Novel project with Ram.V . Have a good day, folks!
- Kish

Yup, as you may have noticed, I have been steering clear of digital art of late. I seem to derive a lot more pleasure from actually getting my hands dirty