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Contents Creative Gaga Magazine - Issue 42
Digital Art
66
Illustration 50
Lost Memories
Digital Illustration
by Kevin Roodhorst
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Shahid Kapoor (PADMAVAT)
by Gajanan D. Nirphale
Happening Around! INSPIRING TRENDS Freedom of Choice by Geeta Parulekar Because Love has no gender
Translated from Traditions by Shreyank Naik
Music
by Shreyank Naik
Influence by culture & traditions
Pg 08-11
SPENDTHRIFT
Pg 12-13
A bunch of thoughtfully designed stuff that you can acquire.
PROJECT FOCUS Gods Renewed, Calendar 2018 by Sumouli Dutta The new year’s godly depiction.
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Pg 14-26
Illustration 28
Renewing the Urban Experience by Kimberly Goes Exploring the city in new ways!
Solutions for Mental Health by Sayali Wandhekar Finding the mental breakthrough!
Figures EARLY RISER
Sketching with Friends
by Ritaban Das
Pg 28-35
Single Frame Saga by Ritaban Das
Telling Tales Single-frame style!
GAGA WORTHY
Pg 36-53
Live Your Imagination by Pankaj Gole
Concept Art 36
Imagination becomes reality!
Creating For The Readers by Gajanan D. Nirphale
Pros & Cons of illustrating for publications.
VANTAGE VIEW
Pg 44
Freelancing is not all roses! by Kevin Roodhorst Tips to manage freelance finances!
GAGA GOD
Pg 54-61
Finding New Styles Consistently by Parvati Pillai Never settling for the same!
VANTAGE VIEW
Chinese Street Food Seller Table Service
Illustration
by Pankaj Gole
Pg 62-65
Grow as a Freelancer by Lavanya Naidu Tips before starting as a Freelancer!
Gyaan
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Transform Usual into Magical by Kevin Roodhorst
Pg 66-69
Transforming the typical!
Designer Life! 15MM OF FAME
Explore A New World by Gaurav Srivastava
Live the imagination!
Freedom To Imagine by Moksha Rao Imaginary world full of fantasies!
Poster Design for Spring Demoday
by Parvati Pillai
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Pg 70-73
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Project Focus
Project Focus Going behind the scenes of some great design projects.
Gods Renewed, Calendar 2018 Sumouli Dutta, a doodle and illustration artist, tries her hand at creating a 2018 calendar of Indian God avatars set apart from the all so common representation of the theme across common calendar art found through the country.
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Sumouli Dutta
Based in Kolkata, India, Sumouli Dutta is a doodle and illustration artist. Currently working in an organisation as a visual merchandiser and living her passion for art and illustration daily, designing is her way to finding personal expression. instagram.com/woodledoodledesigns
Challenge Inspired by the variety and depth of India’s mythology, Sumouli wanted to create an exclusive 2018 Hindu Avatar calendar based on selective Hindu gods of the millions worshipped in the country. However, the Indian belief that it is auspicious to start a month or each day looking and praying to gods and goddesses meant that Indian Hindu gods were the most commonly used topic to design or illustrate on a calendar. So her main idea and challenge was to create an exclusive calendar distinct from the usual by depicting a series of 'cute, lively, quirky and bright coloured reusable avatars' to be conveniently displayed on work desks, study tables or shelves
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Gaga Worthy
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SHAHID KAPOOR (PADMAVAT). An oil-painting style portrait of the Bollywood actor, Shahid kapoor from his latest release Padmavat.
AMIR KHAN. A digital portrait done in photoshop using different brush styles and various textures
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11 AMITABH BACHCHAN (AGNIPATH). A rapid style portrait of Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man of Bollywood.
RAJSAHEB THACKRE. A portrait of Rajsaheb Thackre done replicating an Oil paint style portrait.
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This wittiness needs to be accompanied by simplicity in understanding, so as to reach out to the broad audience in terms of age groups and intellect, all throughout the country. And this can be achieved by a simple exercise of observation, wherever one is. Mumbai locals work best for Gajanan! This way, the challenges actually become the means for the illustrator to keep up with the ever-increasing competition and help keep the publication house at the top. It also helps the illustrators’ individual growth in terms of quick mindvisualisations and their digital execution, thus working as a tool for speed-efficiency and functioning as a confidence-booster!
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Inspirations are Wonders! Speaking of inspirations, Gajanan follows a lot of senior illustrators and also feels that nature casts its own magical inspirational spell on him. To get the best out of him, Gajanan understands the required topic in depth from the reporter in-charge and then fuses his inspirations with the trending topic to create an illustration in tandem with the amalgamation. Whereas creating portraits completely depends upon the character and its background
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Gaga God
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FINDING NEW STYLES CONSISTENTLY Illustrator, Parvati Pillai, tells us how trying out new styles and forms of illustration are key for a designer to grow at one’s craft and expand one’s scope of work in current context.
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Parvati Pillai
Discovered illustration in her 3rd year of Bachelor’s in Animation from Maeers MIT Design, Pune. Steadily working for Chumbak and Tinkle, she later joined Aalto University, Finland, as a Master’s student, thereon illustrating for a wide range of publications and brands like Google and many others.
01 Poster. Designed for Spring Demoday at Medialab, Aalto University.
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02 Spain. Tried to capture the magic and the essence of some fascinating countries.
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Various Styles Takes Conscious Effort. The art style and colour palette are very important to Parvati in storytelling, especially if designing for a particular target audience in mind. She tries to use colours and intricate patterns to incorporate various illustration styles. Like most artists, she has a natural inclination to a particular colour and illustration style. As a result of such tendencies, it takes a lot of effort to move away from it and consciously make
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