Artist Portfolio-Apoorva Lakshmi Ragi

portfolio

apoorva lakshmi ragi

of select works ghibli-o- thèque thirst for vengeance comic-shaan fairie-tober plant-o-logy conserva-tober Travelogue-y thot cover

Who am I: Apoorva,

Multipotentialite, passionate about art

What I am good at:

learning new skills (softwares & softskills), conceptual creativity, Interdisciplinary innovation

How do I stand apart:

spatial and aesthetic visualization, psychology informed design

What am I showcasing:

artistic skills, ability to adhere to a brief while creating cohesive body of work

What other useful skills: 3dmodelling & rendering,Calligraphy & lettering

ghibli-o- thèque ‘upside down’, ponyo

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This body of work consists of 21 pieces created in response to prompt words as part of 21 day lockdown challenge by Artist Prajwal Acharya.

The diverse everyday words as prompts (upside down, alien, freedom, box etc) come together as a series inspired by Studio Ghibli Universe, interpreted and rendered in pen and ink

‘alien’, nausicaa of the valley of the wind

‘dog’, koro’s big day out

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‘freedom’, howl’s moving castle

‘box’, the cat returns

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‘robot’, laputa: castle in the sky

‘paperplanes’, spirited away

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thirst for vengeance prize winning 1500 word short story is currently in the process of being digitally illustrated into a flat art graphic novel.

these are scenes from the fantasy coming-of-age short story:thirst for vengeance, where a girl and her phoenix

fight the evil in the culture lands

In the place where the godmother was, there was a miniature dagger.

She knew what she had to do.

Kin slayers inflicted the most pain.

And she was the chosen one.

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He had first spoken to her when he caught her talking to Aron, her Phoenix, in the cave where they had been hiding. ‘I have had him for as long as I could remember my Lord’ she had said, when he asked her of it. Lord Orofer immediately reached out to feel Aron’s feathers soft, over the strong muscular wings. Phoenixes chose their companions. Being the chosen one gave Power, strength & Magic. Magic that blossomed when the child came of age. Aron opened his large wings under the Lord’s touch.

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She remembered, how she played with her father, the great Lord, in the fields behind the castle, in the great halls underground, in the summers by the sea.

comic-shaan This series is part of a 7 day long 3 random words challenge where 3 random prompt words have to be drawn into a single comic daily.

Creative interpretation culminated in storyboarding one a4 page comic for every triad of prompts

Duck Politician Chair

Box Parrot Dancing girl

Mermaid Balloon Boy

fairie-tober

chicken

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This 31 piece fairies series was drawn for Inktober 2018 with all prompt words interpreted into the imaginary world of fairies drawn in a5 size with Pen & watercolor

exhausted

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swollen

bottle

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roasted

plant-o-logy This series consists of 35 live botanical sketches of plant samples collected

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conserva-tober This body of work consists of pieces created in response to environment related prompt words by

Current Conservation Magazine for CC Inktober 2020 Drawn to scientific accuracy and rendered in pen and ink

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Travelogue-y

Photo of the published copies

Here are few spreads of the travel magazine of a study tour organized for architecture students. It was photographed, designed on photoshop, executed, printed-published singlehandedly also while coordinating data across team of 30 students.

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thot cover

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A minimalist approach to mixed media abstraction, a thot cover is a simple phone photograph made to look like a book cover(hence, thought cover) using no other tools except the instagram story mode

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apoorva lakshmi ragi architect, illustrator, photographer, poet, writer

email:apoorva.lakshmi.ragi1@gmail.com

ph: 9743034029

that’s all folks!