Alone...

Back after a loooonggg time...but a full time job really eats up all the time u have...

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neways...this ones called "Alone"...it shows how and where a man is alone...his only support his himself...when he is crying...he's alone...when he's reaching out, trying to achieve something he's alone....even when he gets everything he wants, he's all powerful...he's alone...when his heart aches, when his age tests his body...he's alone...he's alone even when he's in a crowd for no one can understand him...no one can see inside him...

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The tree signifies his life...what it becomes...all these events are like the roots which lead to this bare tree...

Mithya...

This story is about a woman who lives in different worlds...her work, her home, her relatives, her dreams...all of them are around her (symbolized by the rectangular frames)...she is the same in all but the things around her change...in some she is all alone, in some she is surrounded by people, some like her and some different...she tries to be in the reality but something pulls her back to her illusion...her dreams (symbolized by the bubbles) try to become a part of her reality (symbolized by the big red frame in the center)...in some she is a princess, in some she is an ocean...in some she is the moon, in some she is the air...she tries to achieve them...some are well within her reach and some are far beyond...some are too dark or unclear for her to see...
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She tries to maintain a balance between the illusion and the reality...tries to be practical...but she is pulled into the illusion again and again...she has to realize that she has to stop trying for her illusions is a path to her dreams...she can't be happy in this real world, their are far too many unrealized or broken dreams in it...she has to stop trying...she has to stop crying...
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No photoshop this time :)...plain sketch and paint...just adjusted the contrast and colour balance in photoshop...

Another...

Don't stop...u have to go on...
on another journey...
You have to let go your desires...
for another destination awaits...
You can't look back...
for another path lies ahead...
You can't sleep...
for its time for another day...
You are resting...
but another race is to start...
You want everything to just slow down...
to look around...
To relish what you have achieved...
or cry over your loss...
But you can't...
may be some other day...
Why do you need to succeed???
can't you just do with a few losses...
You know tomorrow is another day...
you can rise from my losses...
But why...when you know the day will be over soon...
you know what you'd leave behind is dear...
What stands at the end of the path isn't you...
you'r what you r...just a common man...
But people say you r not...
that you r different...
Then why do you feel things...
why do you cry when m sad...
Why do you need love...
like everyone else...
Why are your emotions not just skin deep...
why do sorrows pierce your heart...
You know you'll get over it...
you always do...
Is that why you'r different...
is that why you always wait for another chance...
Always wait for another day...
so that you can forget what has gone...

Jiya...

Finally got time to make something...This one's about a girl (again :P)
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The girl has dreams...some are clear some are not...she wants to reach great heights...and is determined to do so...(signified by the buildings in the bkgrnd)...She goes on a journey...spreads her wings to fulfill those dreams but something is holding her back...her wings are tied in chains...she has all these thoughts of failure...of defeat that she isn't ready to face it...not now...but in the fear she fails to realize that the chains are her own fears...her own apprehensions...which are stopping her from moving on the path...from flying...
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But she has the world of her dreams lying ahead of her...so much to get...so much to see...she has to shed her fears to make her wings...to make herself...FREE...fly high and fulfill her dreams...
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The painting is again first a sketch and then colored in photoshop...
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Hope you like it :)

All about my mother...

First time it has happened that a movie moved me n motivated me to paint...saw this wonderful movie a couple of days back...the movie was called 'All about my mother'...won't disclose the story here wud leave the suspense for u to watch...wud just say that its about a mother who faces similar situations over and over again but even then she doesn't give up...
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She is caught up in these chains...she tries to find hope in each and everything that fate does with her...tries to cope up with it...but they cease to exist...she is injured...deeply wounded...but even then she wants to move on...even then she goes towards the light...to get away from this darkness...but wud her efforts help...she doesn't know...she just knows that she has to move on...if not for her then for those she cares for...and she does...
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this time i tried for a different medium...did the base sketch on my table with a marker :D (scribbling is fun :P...plus u can erase it all with ur deodorant ;)...n obvsly photoshop had to creep in for the final touch :P...
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hope u like it :)

Ram...

Another boring lecture and another deity avatar :)...
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This time its none other than Suryavanshi Shri Ram...(man i need to study!!!)
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I guess no explanation is required for this...simple sketch n then photoshop...Seeta and Laxman are surely round the corner :)

Hanuman

Well...when u have no interest in what the prof is saying...m nothing better to do...u infact want to kill urself 'coz u can't stand the prof ne more...such things come out :P ;)....
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This is another avatar of Hanuman ji...so 2nd one in the line (man...m obsessed with Gods :P)..
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No explanation...just a pen sketch n coloured in photoshop...