Bechain Books

And yet another Bechain Nagri post :P

I've been yabbarelling so much about Bechain Nagri in the past couple of posts, that I really should take this one as an excuse to tell you about it.

You know we're way past our graduation year right? teeheee, having taken up ambitious diploma projects that spilled into an whole extra year (and counting), me and a bunch of friends bid our goodbyes to hostel life and now live in a rented apartment close to campus. And if you've had to call your papa in the beginning of every month screeching 'papppaaaaa...account mein paisa dalo!', and if you've also been a big fat 22 year old something while doing this, you'll understand just how hard it is to make that damn call.

Sniff!

Anyway, but really, it was time we did something to pay our own electricity bills! And while that remains an excuse, we really wanted to have some fun and have something else to look forward to while working on our short films.

We love sketchbooks, and we love drawing, so we combined the two and made these really nice open spine sketchbooks with illustrated covers and launched them at our college fest, RGB. You can see pictures of those madness filled days here.

The prints to the left are my set of prints. They're drawings done on photographs I'd clicked on a trip to Rajasthan earlier this year. I really like photographs, quaint and empty spaces, and doodling. I enjoyed doing this series because I could throw all of it in.

The pixellated design at the bottom of the pile is on it's way! If you like what you see here, do join our facebook page and we'll keep you updated :)

EDI tee

My first t-shirt print ever !!

I made this for a friend, who studied at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. His batch graduated this year, and wanted a batch tee as a keepsake.

So here are the designs of the front and the back, and then the entire bunch of EDI-ots wearing them at the bottom.

Don't ask me how a tower of hairy elephants found their way on a seriousass entrepreneurship tee :P

I do hope it works better than caricatures of Mallya, Tata, Birla and other fancy honchos they wanted me to stamp on the tee, something I vigorously shook my head in the negative to before they even finished their sentence.

I love thinking in characters. That's why I love animation and animation people :) There's always fun to look forward to!

Threadless!

I just entered my first submission for threadless loves patterns challenge :)

girgit

 ok, so i'm being cheap and posting a birthday card i splashed up for a friend who's party i couldn't attend. he's a part of a studio called girgit (chameleon) and in some unexplainable way looks like the dude on the rainbow. it's been a reeeeaaly long time since i played around with watercolours, and by doing this instant card today reminded me of just how much i love watercolours!

ps: i just kinda realised, isn't it funny how this guy, and the elephant and gandhi in my previous two posts share the same grin? o_O note to self : draw. sad. people. from. time. to. time. angry shall also do, occasionally. 

Yellephaant!

this is the artist note that's going to be there in all the books i've made for bechain nagri!

there's substantial explanation i need to give before i talk like 'bechain nagri' has been in the dictionary for years and assume you know exactly what it means. i will, sometime, soon, promise.

oh.my.god.i'm.writing.a.blog.post.

eeeeeeeeee! this place feels alien. this..this..ACT.feels.alien. THIS act of writing a blog post. it's been 223434888389f89jkfdo9u2394u594884848843oo3o332299 seconds since my last post no? i'm sorry, i've been spending too much time in the inside of my head. i've been keeping busy with two big things. my diploma film (i'll post something soon!) and bechain nagri (click click click), which along with tiresomeness and insane amounts of brain churning, has also been lots of fun! i made the above illustration for rejoicing the 500 likes we got on facebook today.

people were weird about me posting this saying 'beware, it might be offensive.' i really think indians should learn to laugh at themselves. there are lots of things in india i'd like to change. but that'll be another post..sometime. but i think our country is awesome.

i don't even know what to write. hmm..sssso. what all has happened since november 24th 2010? hmm. lets see. got rabbits (the ones that eat paper, and have special taste for my roald dahl books). got a new flatmate. launched bechain nagri. made tshirts that got printed! read a few books on entrepreneurship. had some madass parties. animated. learnt to cook reasonably. GOT GIFTED A MACBOOK PRO :D made a lot of trips to bombay. travelled to udaipur. read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. danced like never before. got one haircut. rollerbladed. grew some perspective plants. made considerable progress in diploma film. converted one room in our house to a studiospace. wrote a lot of blogposts in my head. and forgot all about them. *grumble*

annnyyway. i should get myself to sleep. i'm going to share some stuff from my diploma film soon. and i will post more often now on. i have a mac and 24*7 internet connection. i should not be allowed to make excuses for not updating my blog.

also, my adopted brother has a blog. you'll find it at www.dredmystic.blogspot.com, check it out! he makes good stuff, sometimes :P

This one's for those rainy afternoons, 
that cosy corner in my room,
my new mp3 player, 
and sinfully beautiful beautiful music.
And, peace. Oodles schmoodles of it.

Ps: Song of the day - Traffic in the Sky, Jack Johnson.

Mungyani

My first study in pastels! Please do leave feedback!