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

Go Dubai!

This is part of an artwork I did a few months back for an International Literature Fest in Dubai. Boy, was I glad to see the name of so many graphic novelists on it! The medium of sequential art is finally going main stream in Dubai! :)

Pthbbbt!!!

Ah well.... as far as style explorations go, this too happened in November 2014. I also got a little married, which in itself is a major change in 'style' ;) . And yes, that's the wife going 'pthbbbbt' right there!

The Other Woman

When you keep doing something for long enough, especially artwise, you end up developing and being stuck with a form of expression that you proudly call your 'style' . But just as it is with actors, this restricts you when it comes to handling different genres. Of late I've been jumping at any chance I get to break free from my comfort zone. Here's something I did last year as part of a series of development sketches for a form of expression quite unlike the one I've been using on a regular basis. I eventually used the style in a comic that you can read HERE. It's called 33, and is written by Jai Undurti. I also got to pay a humble tribute to the legendary R. K. Laxman in the comic

Kokaachi

Here's something from a fun project I did with Studio Kokaachi.

Drifting Apart

Life puts us through a lot of situations- good, bad, ugly, and mundane. As a result, we change, we evolve, we devolve, and in one way or another, we grow. We are not all subjected to the same stimuli. Nor do we all react the same way to any given stimulus. As natural as the process of growing up is the process of growing apart. Some relationships, in time, lose their steam. Sometimes all you can do is stay down and watch that ship sink.

Mostly Sequential

As it often happens with my blogs, I've been away from this one too for so long. I blame facebook and instagram for all the instant gratification that they provide with their 'likes' and such. But  somehow they both lack the archival value that blog posts have. Or may be it's just me.

Speaking of which, I have added yet another blog to my long list of blogs. This one is mostly to showcase my sequential art. You can visit it by clicking on the image below. I'll be adding more webcomics there whenever I can

And to all those who opine that microblogging has massacred blogs, let me repeat what Onur Kabadayi, the managing director of Boomads, said in his article in The Guardian
"Blogs haven't disappeared – they have simply morphed into a mature part of the publishing ecosystem. The loss of casual bloggers has shaken things out, with more committed and skilled writers sticking it out. Far from killing the blog dream, this has increased the quality of the blogosphere as a whole."