Characters and scenarios

Recently I have done a few scenarios and character design for Manish Saini's upcoming film Gungun. It is a story of a young boy named Gungun in a small sub-urban place and his friends. They go to see a magic show and get fascinated by the Magician thereafter. Right now, the film is in the pre-production stage. All the images are drawn and coloured digitally in Photoshop CS3.

Narcissus

I look down
That is me
Sunk in the water
A vine grows from my eyes,
A flower blossom
As I spread my hands
With temptation
It cries.
"Spread your hands not!
Boatman, from where do you come?"

The temptation of
our forefather
And
his great gift for us
Lust and Desire;
Thus exists
The need for darkness
And the art of theft.

Narcissus

Nurcissus, as a mostly celebrated theme for painting is re-presented in this art work. The treatment with fine black and white lines is inspired from the pre-modern etching prints. The entire image is created in Photoshop.

"I see not only the eye of an other; I see also that he looks at me." That is, what is SEEN is not only a thing, a dead object, but also a responding subject, an intention even. If a LOOK can be seen, then empiricism and all the reductionisms that are associated with it are destroyed. But a look CAN be seen, not only the face, but another face's glance at my face.
Jaques Derrida
Derrida quotes Scheler in his essay "Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of
Emmanuel Levinas”, Writing and difference.

Portraits: Pages of my old sketch books