All things Indian

These are not my best sketches... but as you can see these are many years apart..some point or the other it seems I sketch something similar. Indian-ness is something that I hold very dear to me...and at some point it manifests itself..whether its clothes I wear or colours I use!!! Mera Bharat Mahan!!!!! :)

Masks

Once again Tibetan Buddhist influences re-surface. People often wear masks everyday of their lives...a different one for different people and occassions. As for me I feel the lesser the masks or none..the better...
I have masks... but they are to do with my moods..the upper one being fierce or angry mask and the bottom one being..mischevious and happy...

Women from strange places

I love making strange looking women...no reason in particular..I actually love hairstyling, costumes and make up also sci fi stuff sometimes...not that these sketches have anything impressive relating that..
The first one is inspired by a space age geisha and the second..has serious static electricity around her :p

All is full of love!!!

Woke up feeling all is full of love...good and sad...

Reminds me of the bjork song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA

Love the video..the track...all of it!!!

Sending a lot of love and positive energy to all!!!

Ball pen girl

I had never used ball pens....so in this one I tried to use sketch pens, blow pens and ball pens. They create lovely textures...I think I should use them more often. As such I use whatever I have at hand....
'The small joys of stationary...'

Lotus love..

Somehow I have developed a deep love for lotuses...for their colour, form and well beauty in general....also I guess coz it i so intensely used in Buddhist and Indian religious iconography...
So here are some illustrations on paper, a table.
I have also tattooed lotuses on my calves..also they are all around my house.... so here is for the love of lotuses :)

Random Lines

                            
Nothing much to say about these..just some lines....somehow I feel they have an oriental spirit to them.

For people I love

I somehow started giving people some of my sketches whenever I visit..or just coz they are soooo sweet and caring...
It's fun to leave behind a piece of you...

For Mansi, Delhi

For Anupam, Baroda

For Ujji and Kareena, Baroda

There's something about walls

I have a sudden rush of adrenaline when I paint walls..the mediums vary from permanent markers to photo inks, crayons, fabric paint to anything and everything that is lying around the house.
I have been lucky with landlords who have let me decorate their walls... but there is one feeling I loathe the  most.... leaving them behind..sometimes I wish I could break that section of the wall and take it away with me. I decide everytime that I will paint on something I can carry.. but eventually I end up painting on the walls...I feel like they were meant to be there...kind of like the feel and spirit of the house... here's to more paintings on the walls...

Line track mind!!!

Boredom and lines sometimes help create beautiful things.... I cant believe that I actually made this one...how many hours I seriously don't know!!!

Massive Attack -Protection

The sketch was inspired by the song.... the video is awesome too. Directed by Michel Gondry...the entire set of the building for this video was made horizontal and all the actors were lying down....

I was super vulnerable when I sketched this one....just needed some protection....

Wing obsession

My fascination for wings began after grade 12.

I started sketching wings...makes me feel free and independent (cliche..i know but it's true!!!!)

I even got wings tattoed (will put pics someday)

These are a few of my early wing obsession sketches. 

Phool Patti

'Phool Patti' is something that I picked up while I was in college. We had these design drawing classes.. and at some point we were left in the greenery to draw Phool Pattis. And so it stuck...
Some of them are drawn, some actually stuck on and one of them is Brocade from Kalimpong.

Cherry blossom girl

Speaking of happiness!!!! This is happiness manifested...for no apparent reason. :)
(made on handmade paper using OHP marker)

And there was hair......

 

Illustrations of hair....some of them as old as 2001.
What can I say!!! I love drawing lines, women and hair :p

Demon days!!!

These are some illustrations from some darker days of mine.

The first one has the silhouette of a strange lonely looking tree that I could see from my window. Somehow the tree seemed so isolated and eerie I felt I had to draw it's shape...soon after there was a storm and the tree lost it's branches. I moved from that house soon after and never saw that tree ever again.       

                             

The second one was of a time I was underground and isolated...I have a mirror shaped like that.. I imagined that the whole world was stuck behind the mirror and that it was the only window to the world. Sounds strange now that I think about it...It did not seem so strange then. It was a weird phase of my life...glad I'm over with it now. People need alone time to figure and sort themselves. Too long a period of isolation can be really bad for you though! 

 The last one was of a nightmare I saw....It began with me waking up in my room and seeing someone sitting by my side. The room had a Zero Watt red bulb lit (creepy!!! don't know why I had that colour light)
In the red room the man had bent his head in such a way that I could see the silhouette of is head just a little and more of his shoulder blades. He was bald, with broad shoulders and a strong body. I tapped him on the back only to find within seconds that he was on top of me. I could feel his knees on my chest pressing me down.
 I swayed my hand over his face to feel nothing but air. Every time he swayed his head I saw in motion blur..five different faces..I distinctly remember one of a little girl, one of an old woman...the others I don't remember clearly now.
I am not a religious person..a spiritual one though..but at that moment I prayed so hard..within seconds....what felt like hours the man turned into a moving smoke and vanished into the corner of the room.
That's when I woke up and felt scared to death.
I could not sleep all night...sketched this days later. I wish I had better drawing skills..But I remember the nightmare..none the less. 

High!!!

                       

It's ThAT state of mind. Need I say anymore?

Costumes to be somebody else

Was just thinking of some wearable costumes for theatre. When I sketched them I could already see fabrics and construction *** it's a professional hazzard*** But I would love to someday make costumes- for people, dolls, mannequins...to wear.. to display...to gift...to sell.
I do make dolls..I guess I can start there.                                                            
I can see blogging about what you have already done makes you think about more things that you want to do. YAY!!!!!

Monsters ball

This happened long long time ago..I am posting all my work very randomly..there is no time pattern that I'm following...I definitely feel these are very naive. But it did come out of my head at some point. I love monsters to this day.
Maybe I should see what my monster would look like in today's date!!!

Glimpses of me

It is only natural that whenever I sketch women they often have hairstyles and accessories that would be the look that I would like to have or would be wearing at that point of my life . This is Bohemian me...curly hair (permed) big handmade loop earrings. I dressed like my sketch after I drew this. (I think this was more than 3 yrs ago.)