Birds meet. Page 1

Here is the final spread from the first folklore in the book.
'How The Crow Turned Black' 

The crow in this is the light brown, yellow breasted + beaked bird.

sidenote: I saw yellow beaked crows in Ladakh, North India. 
Also replaced ugly odd bird with grey pigeon (right). 
Can refer to the post from 2010 here: Process work for spread 1

Four Spread Samples

How the Crow turned Black

Birds Meet

 

Brothers take revenge.
A Naga Kitchen

How Tattooing was invented.

Rangtsungba and Salunaro

Instuba- the Tiger man

First set of illustrations.

Kahoryao lent me his tablet and with the help of that...coloring on photoshop was an easier task. These are my first experiments. Many changes still to be made. The scan were not very good so the outlines cannot be seen.

Instuba telling his sons to wait outside enemy gate

Instubah as the tiger with an enemy he killed.

Instuba and his two sons rejoicing - while enemies chase them.

When the enemies reach the river they only see a tiger and two boys.

(Coloring half done.)

The third test in 'the rich girl and poor girl'

Another perspective of the boys mother throwing things on the floor to test the girls.

The boy choosing the girl he wants to marry in the sunglang.
The characters have slightly been worked on but not finished or good enough. the sunglung is also TOO brown - doesnt look like bamboo.

The second test in 'the rich girl and poor girl'

This is a spread from the story.

The boy and two girls collecting water in bamboo poles from the village tank.

Another spread from the story.

The boy and two girls climbing the hill towards the village.

The first test: Rich girl and poor girl

This is a scene from the first test - where the boy watches the rich girl hog up her food.

Perspective is slightly off.

Did you know people carried water in Bamboo poles?

Bamboo was used for various things including carrying water. I had no clue.
People could carry about 5 - 7 bamboo poles in a basket.

 Water was collected from village tanks or streams - usually quite a distance away from the village.

These drawings are scenes from the story - rich girl poor girl - where the three carried water home.

different scenes from the story - rich girl and poor girl

The boy watching the rich girl eat.


The mother of the boy testing the girls by throwing things on the ground.

The rich girl runs across while the poor girl picks up the things.



The boy chooses the girl he wants to marry.

Character sketches of the rich girl poor girl.

More Illustrations - Sweet revenge

(The brothers digging the found footprints)

(Tiger cubs)

(2 versions of the brothers on a tree preparing to attack)

Exploring Character Design

For the book, I don't want to make the characters too realistic, although that is what I have been advised to do by my jury.
Worked on this style anyway. 

Colour Mediums

Boy watching the rich girl hog up her food.

Stones he kept as tally!

First few sketches!

The two girls were in love with the same boy.

Struggling with a style. One that is not realistic nor too cartoony!
The eyes don't work.

Grand mama

First illustrations of Azaola

Azao - water color.

*She closes her eyes when she narrates her stories.

This turned out sleepy.