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This is what S D Phadnis helped me learn in my class I by making cute little diagrams to explain maths and science. Open any Maharashtra State Board or Balbharati  class I mathematics/science text book and you will find his illustrations there. S D Phadnis S D Phadnis lives in Pune and has kept generations amused with his humor. He creates the most amazing captionless cartoons and illustrations. His work is so inspirational and yet there is so little that is shared. Its sad that he is not well known out side of Maharashtra.  If you like his work please share it ( link here ). Let us appreciate such artists who have set the bench mark for the rest of us, who can only aspire to be as good as him.  Images courtesy S D Phadnis ( www.sdphadnis.com )

Colors, story board & paper rolls... perfect recipe for something awesome, something coming soon!!! ok, I'll give u a clue.  It's something to do with an apple, a worm and a little man. :)  

This is something i drew on a paper role and i loved those little things i drew! Even thought it is something out of my head m not sure what they are. cartoon people, creatures, cute monsters may be? well NO CLUE! So i leave it to you, it what ever you like to think it is! :)

WHAT, COLOR, SHAPE? is a book for children between 2-5 years. This is my work in progress, book that teaches children basic colors, shapes and living creatures that they can create from these colors and shapes. Step 1: Understand and recognize colors. Step 2: Learn and recognize animals and their names. Step 3: Identify shapes and learn how it is used to form an animal.

This was a college assignment and the topic was to design a series of press ads for adhesive giant 'Fevicol'. While most of my classmates were making use of the pre-existing image of Fevicol 'ye fevicol ka majboot jod hai, tootega nahi!', I wanted to take a different approach. Around the same time Fevicol had come up with new packaging, it was easy to use and very convenient!. I decided to take it up and the theme of my campaign was: fevicol in new squeeze bottle! I decided to go with illustrations, as it would be much effective to highlight the advantages of the new packaging over others.

Handmade paper + Black marker

This was done by me some 3 years ago for a flash game. But sadly the project got scrapped :( I have used illustrator instead of flash for the background and characters.  

Miniature paintings with a new style.

In my final year, as an Animation student I was required to make a short film. Since I wanted my film to be original, I decided to make a film on the story I had written a year ago. The book and the animated film is way different form each other. I saw a potential in the story I had written and tried to improvise it. Now if I compare the book to the film, only the characters remain the same, else everything has changed! I started with sketching various incidents in the story, started sketching the characters and tried to define their body language and behaviour. Following are some initial sketches of characters. I was still working on the story then. The more I sketched, the clearer I got about the story n the final script of my film. There are only two characters, the boy and his grandfather. From the beginning I had pictured the grandfather to be lean and tall, half bald and with huge thick black frame glasses. And I wanted the boy to have a huge head, round and plump. ...

I am a big Black n White fan, but one can’t ignore the beauty of colors ! Here is the color exploration of the same. I have used mix medium to color these images. Watercolor patches covered by pencil strokes and black gel outlines.

'The Boy and his Umbrella' is my very first animation film, well, second actually. But this whole project is very special to me, and one of my dearest of works, so I decided to start my blog with it! Our course began with an assignment of writing and illustrating a story for children up to 8. Or between 5-10, have forgotten the details! not sure if I knew it even then! :) So I came up with an umbrella story!