Burst

Last week I wrote a post about imagination and making dreams come true.

This week I've finally realised that dreams and imagination are a result of initiation. Everything has moved in such an amazingly fast and lovely pace that I cant help but wonder where I started and began. I also can't help but think :

I have finally found a "A quote," that's beginning to reveal itself in most areas of my life, courtesy The Beatles :

"The love you take is equal to the love you make"

                                         

This has all coincided with the creation of "Illustration Much," an illustration studio of sorts started by four os us - Me and three of my closest friends from college.

Logo courtesy Anant Ahuja


We launched Illustration Much at Kitsch Mandi this weekend - It's a popular flea market in my lovely home city of Bangalore. The responses and the love we received was immense! And we're so happy to continue putting out more work in the future.










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For exclusive prints of my work, feel free to email me on:
taaneya1990@gmail.com

Love,
Taaneya.

Featured in Kyoorius Magazine!

 Last week I received my copy of Kyoorius magazine, and the best part?

I've been featured in it!

Kyoorius is one of India’s leading publications in the field of design and illustration, showcasing great talent.

Getting featured in Kyoorius is a dream come true, and makes all this seem so worthwhile everyday.To be amongst the likes of Rebecca Chew, Rahul Gaikwad and so many more talented illustrators was the best post birthday present I could have ever received!

Thank you so much to Bindu Nair, editor at Kyoorius for making this happen. And above all, Kyoorius, for doing what they do for designers,illustrators and students.

You can read the whole interview here

Hitched

Just graduated college!

And the little guy up there is one of the results of my four years at The Symbiosis Institute of Design!

He's a part of a huge collection of characters :

"Circus People", an illustrative theme based font

Each alphabet is based on a character from the circus!

And there are numbers too!

And it's a book as well!!

(That I hope to get published someday)

It's wonderful time, Im extremely happy to be doing what I'm doing.Lucky as well :)

Happy May everyone!!

Notes to Myself -Flipping Gardens

Relationships are like gardens.

You take care of them,watch them grow and hope they stick around.

Most of the time they're beautiful.

But sometimes they don't stick around.

So you flip them.Start over.One seed at a time.

Notes to Myself-2 (Cause and Effect)

Why does it take extreme situations like death for humans to wonder,regret or change?

We get caught in our busy lives.

.During which asking someone how they're doing might be more important than we can ever imagine.

Notes to myself-1

I've realised I STILL think too much and never say enough.And I have alot to babble about.Trust me.

        I'm not sure it really matters.I'm not sure how many people still actually follow this blog,with my blocking comments and having nothing to put up every now and then.But that's okay,I've been told my blog is still looked at,blame the lack of comments on me and my comment blocking actions.

       I've been asked whether I work for my blog or work for me.It's really a little bit of both.I love what I do.And hope to love what I do everyday of my life.I also like looking at my work on a bright screen that does different things,it makes me happier.I can share what I have with alot of people.That's exciting.

      I recently put up some photographs for this contest(www.flopmagazine.com..vote for me if you like) and I got some nice responses.I never look at myself as a photographer.But I like getting into different things,its pretty exhilarating.I work towards what I enjoy doing and let go of what I can't possibly move through.

    I am very insecure and lack confidence when it comes to my life with design.I think I worry about whether I'm doing the right thing atleast once a week.But it's times like these I realise that everyone has so much to give.And take.And design is my way if giving,be it holistic,social or lucrative.

       I want to illustrate books,artfully direct magazines,advertise,design home products,postcards...even teach someday.I have alot I'd like to do.And I always say that dreams exist to lose themselves.But I also believe that you can always have what you want if you work hard.And I love to work.So what's stopping me?

          I don't know.

I'm impatient.I recently submitted some illustration work to another competion.And I'm not going to do well at all because I worked in an absolute hurry.I didn't work for me,I worked inorder to finish my work on time.

      I guess that's really the problem.That and insecurity.I want to get over it.I will.I refuse to be someone I'm not.If I'm down enough to be another person I better do it well,otherwise there's no point.And I'm not going to be someone else.

      It's a long journey,this one.