Carnivale!!

A sketch i did for a client which eventually didnt work out so freaked out with the colours and see where the results went..

Botokeshto..!!

This is Botokeshto..one of the many numerous characters that keeps squiggling out of my head,

Botokeshto lives in Shyambazar one of the last of the decadent era of Businessmen , he has made most of

his money by smuggling narcotics inside bananas to Latin American Nations. Behind is Sir Edward Idur his legal adviser. Botokeshto is of Bengali Parentage but his roots of his mother Komola-bai the noted nautch girls of Shyambazar is slightly blurred..More of Botokeshto's life-story to come ..will keep you all posted

This is Botokeshto's old man , a quintessential smuggler himself .His operations although were quite local compared to his son's global exploits. But he did provide Botokeshto the genes and the resources to flourish..

Pudducherry!!

A solitary one from a series of sketches done during my trip to Pondicherry..shall upload a few more pretty soon.

Robo Bhillain!

A very different type of illustration from my usual style.Here the image was a play on a theme of a villain.Had fun deviating from my style and making a very clean illustration

Gothic Goli..& Smoky hours..

Found this stuff from the one of the old sketchbooks ..It's a tribute to a very bizarre alley in my hometown kolkata ,It is a tribute to an alley of metal-heads who are seriously concerned and working towards their brand of music through concerts and gigs and ensuring their group stays alive through their music .In the middle of this bustling city do not be shocked if u come across a bunch of characters who look straight out of the then stadium rock genres.

Smokey hours also is a dig from my old sketchbook,it's a conversation between three guys where one asks "What the time is?" while one of them replies "Don't know dude,i think it's 20 miutes past Holocaust and 15 minutes past the world shat on their pants."..it's a very nonsensical conversation  but the imagery kind of led me to give it a place in my blog.

Kolkata

Series of sketches done on Kolkata,all of them being  fast scribbles with a watercolour wash on them..

Flash Background

A background done for a project which did not manage to take off,but I had a lot of fun creating a wraped perspective of the cityscape

Hallucination of the Traveller..

Could not come up with anything to describe this actually,but acouple of random scribbles that i started to like a lot and it felt that there was a story behind it...Pen illustration with a touch of photoshop to come up with this
one.

Ghona da

This is an illustration of one of my favourite childhood characters "ghonada'..he's one of the dada's of the bong dada trilogy. Anyway ghonada specialized in an unprecedented art of story telling and betowed with limitless imagination. A know it all character and a modern storyteller..one of the apt influences that i carry forward..

The thoughtful and the Random!!!

Few excerpts from my sketchbook, It's a combination of illustrations and fewsketches that i've done over the years. Most of them being random thoughts floating in the head while some have been the capture of the motion and the space..hope you enjoy both