Playing with Letterforms
Following are some examples of hand lettering that I have been experimenting with over the years. Some of them are stand alone artworks I posted on my social media and some are part of a larger story that I wanted to tell through my blog. I have linked the respective images with their blogs wherever relevant.
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Hope you enjoy these drawings as well as the stories that they tell.
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This is the logotype I designed for my product brand 'unibrow'. It is a new initiative started by my wife and me to reach out to more people through our work.
www.unibrow.in
www.unibrow.in
Some of my drawings were selected for an exhibition called 'Drawing is Dead' organised by Studio Khirki in New Delhi. The exhibition was about reinforcing the fact that analog drawing is alive and healthy even though our lives are becoming more and more digital.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167853813445353/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167853813445353/
Someone told me that he is coming to my city and would love to meet me. It left me to wonder which city does he mean? Which city can I really call as 'my city'? So I wrote and drew a poem on this confusion of mine.
Below is the link to the complete poem on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/my-city-61b70e9b295a
Below is the link to the complete poem on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/my-city-61b70e9b295a
I love to collect glass bottles and jars that I like. When it was time to discard this bottle I thought I might as well draw on it.
I was using this wine bottle to keep water on my workstation. When I finally got the markers I needed, I decided to create my own label for it.
I used this Moleskine to draw my Inktober 2018 series. After completing the series drew the title on it so I could remember.
Below is the link to the complete illustrated story on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2018-bukka-bukka-9494fd535399
Below is the link to the complete illustrated story on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2018-bukka-bukka-9494fd535399
Practicing lettering on a slow moving day.
This is one of the illustrations I did for Inktober 2016. This was the first year I drew for Inktober.
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2016-ac1b89e52d89
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2016-ac1b89e52d89
With climate change breathing down our neck and isolationism taking over several of the countries around the world I just wanted to express my love for the planet and for all beings that share it with each other.
This is one of the few sketches I did from my experience over the new year vacation I took with my family.
I have been working on a series of phrases starting with 'let's', for example, let's go, let's draw and so on. I decided to draw some on button badges to gift them to the trainers at the fitness center I go to.
I drew this one as a celebration for the Indian Supreme Court's landmark judgement in 2018 abolishing Section 377 that criminalised same sex relationships in the country.
This was inspired by the call for freedom of several social justice activists who were arrested on false claims by the police of a state government here in India.
Jerry Seinfeld paired this 1962 Fiat 600 Multipla with his guest Kate McKinnon on his Netflix show 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee'. I do not really know his reasons but I loved this car totally. It is small, cute and beautiful! It does not have a powerful engine but I do not care. If it can ply on the roads and still look this beautiful, it is perfect for me! I also love Kate McKinnon! She is talented, funny, smart, beautiful and scary (her eyes sometimes look really scary)!
I love coffee and I love travelling so I decided to document our recent trip to the UK to meet one part of our family there. This one is part of a series of images with illustrations and lettering as a glimpse of what we experienced there with constant theme of coffee.
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/around-the-uk-in-a-coffee-cup-558cbe7c4290
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/around-the-uk-in-a-coffee-cup-558cbe7c4290
I drew this as a poster for the EyeMyth Media Arts Festival in 2017. This is the final sketch without colours. I modeled this on a lady who sells earthen pots on a street near my house. EyeMyth is a festival of art, entertainment and new media expressions.
I've been a fan of Stefan Sagmeister's work for the past ten odd years. His pre Sagmiester & Walsh work completely blew me away; the Standard Chartered commercial; the series "things I have learned in my life so far" to name a few.
Inspired by his work, I drew this as a part of my Inktober 2017 series.
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2017-514f1a1c6762
Inspired by his work, I drew this as a part of my Inktober 2017 series.
Below is the link to the complete series on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2017-514f1a1c6762
I drew this in the train while returning from the new year vacation this year.