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A concept I did for Vanavaasi - a personal piece about people who live in humongous trees. The trees are so huge that many families live in a single tree. They coexist harmoniously 🌼😆 . #tree #nature #artistmichi #girl #cat #hole #treehouse #house #harmony #native #sketch #art #micron #penandink #ink #window #peace #beauty #princess #dwelling #home #vine #green

A small poem I wrote with an illustration 🐇 #art #sketch #illustrator #vector #artistmichi #bunny #rabbit #rabbitsoftheworld #childrensart #kidlit #childrensbook #child #rabbit #white #nature #cute #kite #fly #poem #childrenspoem #artistoninsta #love #inspiration

woah fantastic! The hunter is deadly cool

Hunting down the last mermaids.

A painting study that took a very elaborate turn. It’s my first time fitting so many characters in a single composition. The second image you see is how the model posed, versus what I managed to finish painting during the class. I worked on the background between yesterday and today. I still need to work on my textures a little bit but I am overall satisfied with the result.

The process gif skips soooo many steps though lol. I swear I reworked each mermaid like three times, I just couldn’t get their faces to look right no matter how much I tried!

As I was working on this piece I was thinking about fishermen or coastal cities with archaic customs like whaling, or even having to fish illegally because of their dire living conditions. it’s very sad that us, humans, are fishing so many species to extinction because of deeply-rooted traditions, or sheer desperation to keep ourselves and our families alive. It’s a very tough world out there, with no easy solutions in sight.

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Sponsoring Supersonic this week is the online artist teaching resource Drawing Academy and they’re offering several free, online video drawing classes for Supersonic readers (Plus more to come, stay tuned).  The free classes also come with other valuable materials such as free eBooks, guides and art albums.

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Lurking in the deep...

My first isometric illustration, under a frozen mountain lurks a monster... Adapted to that world thrives an ecosystem with strange creatures and plants. Done in Illustrator, this illustration has been spinning around in my head for the past few days.

Just a random sketch of a tiger 🐯 #tiger #waterColorPencils #pencil #random #aggressive #squash #animal #art #artistmichi #youtube #subscribe #follow #inspiration #realism #orange #yellow #jungle #savethetigers #endangered #catsoftumblr #catsoftheday #catsofinstagram #bigcat #wild

"Thats why I couldn't study" Prints available #vector #illustration #cat #sleeping #typical #cute #love #white #print #purple #study #inspiration #children #book #feature #artistOnInsta #artistmichi

This was for the underwater prompt #inktober #inktober2017 #underwater #fish #ocean #cup #glass #ink #pen #instagood

When was the last time you saw someone actually writing a letter?

Not application letters, I mean a nice, warm letter to a loved one

*Tring tring!* “POST! POST!!”

For some reason, the six year old me would get excited to hear the arrival of a post. I was always eager to receive letters. The kind old post man would pretend like all those letters or invitation cards or bills were actually addressed to me; he’d hand them to me with an impressed look in his face saying “Arey! Look how much letters you got today!”

As years passed I became busy in studies, career and never realised that the concept of sending or receiving a letter had disappeared from the back of my mind. Until one day.. One day, my husband showed me a video from the Malgudi Days series that I felt nostalgic about my younger, somewhat dumber self.

Thats when I realised that I’ve never seen a postman for a few years now. Especially after the rise of telephones and mobiles, no one ever sends snail-mails. Even when there’s the occasional bill or post, the postmen don’t have their usual smiles or kind words anymore. Being a postman has become just another job.

Here’s the episode from Malgudi Days for the curious :) The episode is in Hindi but the Youtube CC subs work fine

So when I watched that particular episode from Malgudi days, I was touched. It tells the story of a postman who knew everyone in that small village, he was friends with everyone, talked to everyone. He spoke encouraging words to the jobless ones who sent applications everyday and rejoiced with the family that had some good news from relatives of another another town, he shared the sadness of the ones whose loved ones were having a hard time in another village, in short he was an integral part of everyone’s life…

There’s one house/family in particular that the story focuses on. The postman has seen their daughter grow up from being a toddler to a girl ready to get married. He himself brought the letter that the groom’s side wanted to meet them and the good news that they have agreed for the marriage. He with all enthusiasm delivers the invitation cards all over the village and rejoices with the family on the wedding day.

As he’s about to leave the post office to partake in the wedding, a telegram arrives for that particular family. Now, in those times when there were no phones, a telegram almost always meant bad news, an accident or a death. The postman’s sixth sense tingles and he knows, delivering a letter of bad news will mean disaster for the wedding so he does the forbidden and opens the letter. As expected, a close relative has passed away.

The postman, withholds the news, not telling anybody until the next day. The family understands why he did not tell the news and their respect for him increases. They are grateful for him for not spoiling the wedding mood and the family do not report him.

The story was quite lovely and it was a trip down memory lane to see the old locations and houses. It certainly was fun — writing letters and receiving too! I’m excited to see new technology that the future holds and to look back at the past with nostalgia.