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2. Featured Folks A bunch of insights, techniques and inspiration from the best creative minds of the country and beyond. Jithin Roda Shital Verma Diego Gomez Dushyant Bhardwaj Arshad Sayyed Freelance Concept Artist Art Director & Painter Freelance Illustrator Environment Artist Founder of Wallcano Visakh Viswambharan Anjana EP Zigor Samaniego Vishnu pr Prashant Ashokrao Sable Illustrator, Modeller & Designer Founder and CEO of Appiness Interactive Pvt. Ltd. Artist and Designer Graphic Designer and Illustrator Illustrator Advertising Team Editorial Team Published by Editor-in-Chief: Nitin Tiwari Nitin@CreativeGaga.com Art Editor: Anureet Kaur Phul Anureet@CreativeGaga.com Features Writer: Ankita Sabharwal Ankita@CreativeGaga.com Features Writer: Mohnish Dhagat Mohnish@CreativeGaga.com Features Writer: Nandini ramakuru Nandini@CreativeGaga.com Operations Editor: Pragya Bharti Pragya@CreativeGaga.com Designer: Shelesh Kumar Shelesh@CreativeGaga.com Designer: Priyanka goyal Priyanka@CreativeGaga.com Chief Marketing Officer: Sudhanshu Srivastava Sudhanshu@CreativeGaga.com Branding & Mktg. Consultant: Anuj Rampal Anuj@CreativeGaga.com Sales & Mktg. Consultant: Sanjeev Anand Sanjeev@CreativeGaga.com Distribution Executive: Pankaj Bhardwaj Pankaj@CreativeGaga.com Open Bracket Publication aims to publish trade-specific, knowledge- rich magazines. Creative Gaga is our launch product, aimed at graphic design, animation, illustration, photography, product design and contemporary art. ©Open Bracket Publication 2010. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be used or represented without the written permission of the publisher. Creative Gaga is not responsible in any way for the views expressed by the artists. The copyright of the artworks rests with the artists themselves. Contributors Directors_Nitin Tiwari & Anureet Kaur Phul Financial Consultant_KSMC & Associates Archit Ambekar, Sajana Rathi, Priyanka Goyal, Soni Prabhakar, Shubhangi Asthana, Ravi Kumar, Rakesh Sharma, Ratnesh Choudhary, Ritika Suri, Amanjot Kaur, Surjit Kaur, MP Tiwari, PPS Phul, Meena Singh, Sandeep Singh, Lata Kumari, Jashandeep Kaur, Ishan Gupta Chandigarh SCO-106, First Floor, Sector 40-C, Chandigarh - 160036 t. 0172 4186139 Manchester, UK 19, Prestage Street, Levenshulme, Manchester, M12 4GQ t. +44 7818287434

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4. Contents Creative Gaga Magazine - Issue 43 32 Illustration 55 Digital Art John Hurt by Shital Verma Digital Illustration 14 Partners by Diego Gómez Happening Around! INSPIRING TRENDS Indian Culture On Canvas by Prashant Sable Amalgamating dance, music and culture in his artwork SPENDTHRIFT A bunch of thoughtfully designed stuff that you can acquire. Pg 08-11 Pg 12-13 PROJECT FOCUS Simple To Spectacular by Rahul Khobragade Simple use of shapes and colours. Pg 14-23 Giving Life to Mind-Games! by Anup Kokate If playing cards had life? Bird Illustration by Rahul Khobragade

5. Illustration 56 Daily Dose of Art by Sona Signature Papers A unique promotion idea to create a statement. Figures VANTAGE VIEW Hire Attitude, Train Skills by Visakh Viswambharan Time to pull-up your socks, freshers! Or The secrets to get hired. Pg 18 Amigos by Zigor Samaniego EARLY RISER The Beauty Behind Detailing by Dushyant Bhardwaj Detailing makes all the difference. Pg 24-31 44 Concept Art GAGA WORTHY Famous Portraits! by Shital Verma Representing the renowned. Pg 32-39 GAGA GOD Childhood Passions by Jithin Roda Create what you want. Pg 40-47 MADEIN Humour, Smart Communication by Diego Gómez Illustrating through humour. Pg 48-63 Inspired at Work, Happy at Heart by Zigor Samaniego Do what you love! Flip by Jithin Roda VANTAGE VIEW The Perfect Intern? by Arshad Sayyed Must-have skills in an intern. Pg 69 64 Illustration Gyaan Expressing the Expressions by Vishnu PR Creating a portrait. Pg 64-68 Designer Life! 15MM OF FAME Where Dreams Meet Reality! by Anjana EP Portraying the unseen Pg 70-73 Dedication Personified by Manvee Singh Embracing women. Portrait Tutorial by Vishnu PR

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7. Issue 43 33 Shital Verma As National Design Editor at Navbharat Times, Shital Verma has moved up the ladder since his stint at Dainik Bhaskar in 2000. Having initially taken to Fine Arts at Banaras Hindu University, post his graduation he stepped into lifestyle magazine design, children’s books, graphics, ad campaigns, packaging designs, story boards, and even digital Illustrations along his assorted journey. Instagram.com/shitalverma Famous Portraits Digital and Ball-point artist, Shital Verma, tells us about his process and idea behind creating portraits of renowned individuals from various fields and what exactly it takes to bring out what they symbolise or stand for as personalities. CG. How do you conceptualise the use of lines and textures in your works and how do you execute them? Shital. To begin with any drawing or artwork, I look at the character first and what kind of lines or textures justify the artwork; whether it’s a ball point pen drawing or digital drawing, and such other aspects. Lines and strokes, in particular, are my priority. All this helps me gain a clear picture about how I want to further proceed with the conceptualisation and execution. CG. What fascinates you most about the stories behind every face while creating portraits? Shital. I choose some distinguished characters for portrait paintings, such as Salvador DALI, Zohra Sehgal, John Hurt, Ranbeer and many more. Their expressions with which they get naturally or symbolically associated with over a period of time are what tell their on-screen and real life stories to the audience. I mostly try to represent and portray their charisma in my works, in the best possible way. In Virat Kohli’s portrait (on page 38), for example, I tried to bring out his toughness and determination through lines CreativeGaga.com

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9. Issue 43 59 03 04 Transforming imagination to impressions! Zigor has always had multiple crazy ideas occupying his mind and conveying the same to his viewers works as his biggest motivation and inspiration. For this, he found 3D as the best possible way to express his thoughts and to give life to his imagination. Though he plots the drawing from his mind, his artwork, from scratch to finish, is entirely digital. Gone are those days when he would use the traditional tools of pen, paper and ink to unleash his creativity. Follow your own style! Comfortable and confident about his own style of working, he accepts requests and designs characters only which have the possibility to be designed in his way. It is a moment of pride for him when clients, amazed by his portfolio, call to hire him for their work to be delivered in his style 06 CreativeGaga.com

10. MakeIn Believe 68 Step 9: Finishing up the hair gets us very close to the finished portrait. Make sure that all different parts are detailed out in the proper manner and in the right amount of detail. As a mistake, as small as that of placing a strand of hair at the wrong place can disturb the portrait. Step 8: Now focusing on the hair and detailing it out to perfection. But always keep in mind that doing the hair is time consuming and requires a lot of concentration. Step 10: The final steps to finish up the portrait include last minute touch-ups and detailing. The amount of time put into creating a portrait is directly proportional to the outcome! This painting in particular was done by Vishnu in about 15 hours. It is not easy for an artist to explain all the details and steps required through just a few words! Every step described above is needed to make it look the way it looks. Missing out on even one step can change the final result CreativeGaga.com

11. Issue 43 69 The Perfect Intern Being an intern, living up to your employer’s expectations and wanting to learn from them is not as easy as it sounds! Arshad Sayyed tells us all about the skill set required to ace the position of an intern and make the most of it. Technically an intern is someone who works to gain experience. being an era of social networking, the intern has to be tech-savvy and use social media as a means for the promotion of his ideas. Arshad feels that internship is the best platform an artist can have because of his exposure to an enormous gateway of colours and designs. There should also be no limit to the creative boundary of an intern. The go-getting attitude of a growing artist is what gets the wheels turning. By far, the social media has proven itself to be the best possible platform to attain the much-needed fame, which acts as an added advantage in the life of an emerging artist. Facebook, Instagram etc are the must- have profiles for an upcoming artist to launch himself. Having worked with fashion-centric brands like Myntra, Voonik, FlipKart and Zivame to name a few, Arshad’s designs are co-related with the fashion industry, showcasing fashion with a wacky and crazy under-tone. During the initial development of Wallcano, Arshad would treat himself as an intern. The technical knowledge and the creative mind must go hand in hand to get a good grip of the designing world. Arshad Sayyed Founder of Wallcano www.wallcano.com It is essential to imbibe the culture and imagination of a particular location and to project it on the wall, keeping in mind the dimension and space. An essential quality that an intern must have is to adapt oneself with the latest fashion trends and have an idea as to how to imbibe it in his latest designs. Also, another important aspect of internship is that the person must have the passion to go places. It is said that “One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things”. In this field “A NEW WAY OF SEEING THINGS“ is the mantra to success. As we all know, where there is fashion there is photography, and it plays a very important part in digital designing. Knowing the tips and tricks of photography serve as an icing on the cake for an intern who is embarking on a journey to create his future. An intern must have the enigma to make the whole world his canvas and twist and turn it to match his creative style. Craziness needs to be his trend setting attitude and he should be quick in jotting down wacky and crazy ideas. Arshad’s criteria of an intern is that he should be fun loving with a creative mindset, balancing work and play in just the right amount. His style of working should depict his inquisitiveness to play with colours and he necessarily must have the eagerness to learn and work up his own ideas. Slowly, but steadily, he will learn the beautiful mesh of realistic and digital art, showing him the master-pieces he can create. Travelling surely helps in understanding the current situations better, but an intern is required to be aware and have an in-depth knowledge of the new evolving styles and trends. To sum it all, an intern should be ready to see this universe from the lens of an artist The internet breathes a new life in design and art with every passing second. The 21 st century, CreativeGaga.com

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