Parvati
So I've started experimenting with vector illustration. Weee. :)
It's my first vector book and brimming with influences.
But it's a start! :)
Timetravel
Cover for Jetwings Vintage India Feature
Somehow this loosely defined 'vintage universe' seems like a softer world.
Rose petals, Old radio, Tv shows that were not just for the rich and spoilt but for everyone. Doordarshan's Ek Chidiya-anek Chidiya all tried to emphasize a secular India. An India united by it's diversity. This was a place of blue ambassadors with dusty seats, AIR radio, video cassettes and audio tapes that were precious and kept meticulously. Now between our ipods and itunes, I'm not sure how much more I can hoard.
Sigh. It's easy to get nostalgic one minute, and marvel at how easily accesible everything is in the next. :)
Some of the illustrations i did for a feature in a magazine on Vintage India.
Comical
This be a monthly comic strip that I illustrate and Jugular Bean writes.
for MTV noise factory.
check them out :)
Let us compare mythologies
Some of the pages from the graphic novel prologue of Khoya in one of the posts below.
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
-Rumi
Sky
The stars, like candlesthrust at us from behind blue veils,and as if to make the invisible plain,a wondrous people have come forth.
~Rumi
Gokarna 2010
a weekend spent staring at skies.
Hriday Aakash indeed.
Atleast a Fish, a book for Scholastic
The new book I'm working on for Scholastic :)
A wonderful tale of two little kids, three philosopher fishus,
adorable puppies, tragedy queen dog lovers and abandoned swimming pools.
Enough said :)
This be the first book I've done in black and white. Which is quite a change from
me usual technicolour rainbows.
These were some of the original iterations for the characters until we decided on a lighter younger look :)
Some work in progress:
Out at stores as soon as I'm done illustrating it and nursing a foot. :)
Khoya Khoya Chand- An Augmented Reality Book
Khoya is an interactive fantasy novel for children Illustrated, Animated, Conceptualized
and partly written by me.
What makes it interactive is that is uses a technology called Augmented Reality to bridge the gap between the tangible (a book) and the technological.
It also bridges my two loves (amongst many)- animation and print.
How it does this is that the book has a variety of 'markers' or symbols with limericks on how to use them, the reader, while reading a page, picks up these markers and brings it to their webcam, and using visual recognition the marker triggers off an animation in real time. So in a sense one 'brings the book to life'.
Using this technology one can become different characters in the book, unlock riddles or simply watch as the illustrations in the book start to move. :)
A User-interaction Video coming soon. But here are some spreads from chapter 1 for now.
It's designed for children above the age of 12.
Credit Roll:
Original concept, Illustration, Animation and Design by Shilo Shiv Suleman
Augmented Reality, programming and further conceptualization
Dhruv Nawani
Written by Shilo Shiv Suleman and Avijit Michael with inputs from Hari Adivarekar.
Contributers and Conceptualizers
Nilofer Suleman, Arshia Sattar, Molly and Maya, Anders Sandell, Ampat Varghese, Gayatri Ganju, Kunal Sen, Vani Sreekanta, Mana Dhanraj and the Toys Lab
Lemons
Though watercolours are closest to my heart, everyonce in a while
it's nice to step out of me skin and try another medium.
Lots of experimentation coming your way.
This be my first vector illustration :)
Love :)
These images are from a 5 year old little girls reinterpretation of pampa sutra : )
So what these kids have been doing as it turns out, is taking the stickers from me book and making books of their own!! yay!
These books were very coyly gifted to me a couple of weeks ago :)
The Night the Toys came alive
Come one, Come all :)
The Night the Toys came alive. A preview of 'Khoya' amongst other
wonderful interactive toys for children
Spring Comes
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”
Illustration of masanobu fukuoka done as a good luck charm for someone :)
Also first time with fulll-digital illustration.
Khoya
Another spread from Khoya :)
please do ignore the text. its just been pasted on for now.
Needs editing and layouting and more :)
Love
Shilo
a page from Khoya
From Delight we came into existence.
In Delight we grow.
At the end of our journey’s close,
Into Delight we retire.
- Ashtavakra Gita 1: 18-20
Before, when the world was a spirit of itself, at first man lived in Harmony with other spirit (because he was intouch with his own).He was connected to everything by the network of light. Everyday on earth was a celebration of this love. And man's voice (strong and sweet then) was part of this great cosmic orchestra.
They would sing in crystal voices about this love. they would spin round and round with the stars. Whirling in ecstacy.Until one day man was distracted while singing. He was looking up at the skies and his heart was connected to this great network when suddenly his eye caught something glimmering in the distance.
It was a firefly.
'Light that is worn by something apart from the stars' he thought,the idea of having light was interesting to him and he thought about it for days on end.
He wanted it. And from then on, when he sang with the orchestra, it wasn't a celebration of love. It was a song of longing. Having always lived by his need- this 'want' was new and exciting to him.
7 days and 7 nights later he saw Fire again. One day when all the world creatures were asleep, he snuck up behind the firefly and trapped it in a small glass box.
He labelled this box and it gave him great pleasure that he could see it whenever he wished and it would never ever go away (it had no choice).
Soon he collected more creatures like this. He no longer sang in praise with the rest but instead arranged his collection meticulously in rows.
When the other spirits approached him to ask him why he didn't sing and why he was trapping these creatures and plants he said
'Don't you see? I discovered them and so they are mine'
The spirits didn't understand this logic at all.
But the truth is- that before any pandora's box was opened...it was first sealed up.
Long Live Fishes :D
Grandfather fish's secrets to a long long long life :)
(secrets will be revealed shortly as well)
Oooooo :D
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