The Trial of 2091 - science fiction book illustration project

I recently had the pleasure of working on a science fiction book illustration project for the soon to be released book " The Trial of 2091 " written by Sarang Gupta.
The website link here might give an idea regarding the contents of the book.

It was quite an exciting project with its own constraints and freedoms, constraints regarding the limitations in the usage of colours and keeping in mind the paper quality on which they were to be printed, and the freedom of visualising the environment and cityscape of the time period that I was dealing with here - a futuristic utopia.

The following are among the final illustrations for the book:

The following were my explorations for the cover design for the book:

This is the final cover of the book:

This is the debut novel of science fiction enthusiast Sarang Gupta, I really look forward to more great stuff coming from him.

Concept Art - book illustration project

This is concept art for a very fascinating science fiction book illustration project that I had had the pleasure of working on. I'll upload links to the book once it is up online.

Abhibashi Magazine Cover

This was a cover that I drew for a bi-annual Bengali magazine "Abhibashi".

The theme for the magazine for this session is "Theater" and with Durga Puja just around the corner, they required me to incorporated some element of that as well into the drawing. I made two versions of it. This one is the final version, the one that I finally submitted to the editors with the proposed layout.

However, things didn't quite go as planned with the publishers due to some miscommunication and the final printed version looks like this.

In the previous version, I had tried to use the Tholpavakoothu shadow puppet art form and use that to show bring out the subject. However, I wasn't very happy with the result and decided to rework on it.

I made this one using acrylics and photo inks, and detailed the puppets with a ball pen. On a personal note, I must admit that the puppets which are actually used for the plays in Kerala, are much more detailed than what I could hope to portray in my version of them.

Shubham's Birthday Card

This was a birthday card that I drew for one of my closest friends, Ms. Shubham Shreya on the occassion of her 23rd birthday. Here's my best wishes to her and Harsha.

Medium - Cello Gripper (ballpen) and acryllic paint