Monday, June 24, 2013

Remembering to forget …

I'm on a semi-hiatus this week, a quasi-lacuna or even a mini-interruptus of sorts, and in lieu of the usual Snarkish blather, I post this pencil comp for a graphic novel I'm trying to get started. It's a re-telling of Shakuntala and on this page we can see the royal rishi Kaushika taking a hiatus of his own, from the hectic urban realities of Connaugh Place to the quieter surroundings of the ur-forest of the Mahabharat.

Alas, there's a woman involved and Kaushika's holiday is soon going to degenerate into a quick bit of nooky and then post-coital trip to Wal-Mart to get more stuff for the ashram …

yow!

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6 comments:

  1. TororoJune 24, 2013 at 2:23 PM

    Great idea, posting this instead of leaving a gap in the series of snarkish posts. Does the Clochetic Rule of Three apply to your graphic novel, making mandatory for the first three page to be identical for the story to sound true, or is starting with page 3 a way for the storyteller to jump in medias res?

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  2. Mahendra SinghJune 24, 2013 at 5:10 PM

    Alas, in media res is my modus operandi today … I have been wanting to do this BD for a long time and also, I want to do it in a sort of ligne-clair style, as an homage to some of Moebius' BDs, the ones where he used that amazing inking style where the drawing is so strong.

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  3. TororoJune 25, 2013 at 2:33 AM

    Truly immersive page. I love how the viewer is invited to experience the crow's viewpoint in second panel.

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  4. Mahendra SinghJune 25, 2013 at 10:49 AM

    thanks … this crow symbol is important, since the heroine's name, Shakuntala, comes from the word for bird …

    this story Shakuntala is a very interesting one, I recommend it. There are many versions, I am basing mine of Kalidasa's plus the Bengali film version from 1941

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  5. Priya SebastianJune 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM

    There is a big surge of Graphic Novels happening here. A friend of mine was trying to describe to me the preparation that goes into the making of them. It is great to see a small glimpse of it here. The thought and work that goes into it is immense! I keep coming back to look at these drawings. They are so good.

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  6. Mahendra SinghJune 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM

    Thanks, Priya. Shakuntala has always been a favourite of mine … and I know that you are also a good animal artist, especially those Indian House Crows. They look so crafty!

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