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10 art and life goals for 2019
Continuing the tradition of making a list of goals to accomplish for the year, this year’s list is fun one and involves doing a lot of things. My goals for 2018 wasn’t entirely knocked out of the park and I did manage to get most of them accomplished. Workshops, trying new things, travelling, meeting new […]
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8 ways to balance a career and the love of a personal hobby
We have all been there. The stresses and pressures of a job and the joy and love of a personal hobby. What to do, what not to do? What gets prioritized, what doesn’t? Let’s talk more about this, yeah? Some of us may have left our professional jobs to pursue the hobby we love. Few […]
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How I Got Into Art and Design | A Personal Experience
Getting into art and something creative is a dream I harboured ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to get into the creative fields, that was for sure. But as usual, life or rather unfortunate circumstances came in the way. Here’s a personal account of how I overcame odds to get to where […]
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Design Meetup in Hyderabad | Creator Conversations
Over the last weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at creative design meetup in Hyderabad. This meetup was a collaboration between us at the studio and Indiefolio, an online Indian design portfolio based website. This was a first of its kind meetup here in the city and we were super thrilled to partner along […]
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Floral Letters | An experiment with Gouache Painting
As I have kept emphasising all over, I adore experimenting with mediums, styles and techniques, be it digital or by hand. There was a phase where I worked with gouache paints after looking over at inspiration on Pinterest and Instagram. I created a series of letters and also a commissioned composition for a Tumblr blog. […]
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Stop Comparing Yourself With Others – The Why And The How
In this increasingly social media obsessed world, we tend to admire or dislike and (blindly) follow the next big trend, compare our lives with someone else’s, do, eat, draw, create what others are also doing and the worst of all, compare ourselves, our work with someone else’s. I can tell because I have also been […]
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How Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone is the Best
Whoever coined this phrase, was perfectly true: “The comfort zone is a lovely place, but nothing ever happens there.” Well, who doesn’t like the comfort zone? Everything is warm and cosy in there and there’s nobody really to bother you. You go about your tasks and routines every single day without anything affecting you. You […]
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Tips to Draw a Mandala And Exploring Different Styles
I discovered mandalas a little over 2 years ago. Back then, I didn’t know they were called mandalas. I used to draw circles filled with designs, motifs and patterns; not even knowing that it was called such. Fast forward to the present, I still wouldn’t call myself an expert in drawing them but have achieved […]
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How I Started Working with Lettering and Learnt to Embrace Imperfections
Lettering always fascinated me but I never got into it for the fear that it wouldn’t be a perfect work of art. I always doodled letters and drew some layouts and styles, but they never became full-fledged pieces, or they became works I wasn’t really proud of. And then came my first set of brush […]
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Goals for 2018
I don’t do the new year, new me kind of a thing. Instead, I made a list of things I wanted to get done during this year. A list of goals for the year, so I can keep myself ready for the challenges the year has to offer. I never did this for the previous […]