Illustration: Namaste

This is my first illustrated work in Adobe Illustrator. The previous post was my second one. It came out well and I got lotta appreciation for this one. Hope you’ll find it good :)

namaste.jpg

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~ by Saawan on December 24, 2007.

Posted in Design, Illustration, My Work
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21 Responses to “Illustration: Namaste”

  1. Saawan you are special.

    vasanth said this on December 24, 2007 at 9:58 pm | Reply

  2. awesome work saawan.. i was lookin’ for ur updates on saawansworld.blogspot.com finally found u :)

    Hari said this on December 24, 2007 at 10:09 pm | Reply

  3. Nice work saawan…where r u working/studying now ?

    Keerthivasan said this on December 25, 2007 at 1:01 am | Reply

  4. Great work dudee…. been a while.. how u been…where are you noww..

    Russell said this on December 25, 2007 at 4:49 am | Reply

  5. Awesome work man..!!

    Sai Shashidhar said this on December 25, 2007 at 5:18 am | Reply

  6. excellent blog raa….hi saawan
    where r u now??r u in banglore…..i am staying in marathalli.

    phani kumar said this on December 25, 2007 at 10:46 am | Reply

  7. Saawan..this artwork is really veryy good ..Now, both the hands have come good right?..btw..are ya doin’ any freelancing?

    Sunil said this on December 25, 2007 at 12:15 pm | Reply

  8. awesome saawan!..there are many firms out ther who can use ur talent.. may b u shud consider freelancing(if u havn’t already) …

    Nitin said this on December 25, 2007 at 5:03 pm | Reply

  9. hi raaa.., hope u remember me same as I did. A school mate from mansas. Really enjoying ur creativity.

    siva kiran said this on December 25, 2007 at 7:31 pm | Reply

  10. Thank You all!

    @ Keerthivasan & Russell: I’m in Chennai, TamilNad.

    @ Sunil: You’re really stuck with the hands! :D :D I told ya that I couldn’t edit the work in previous post :P

    @ Nitin: I’d be considering a part time job in a famous graphic design firm in Chennai, if everything goes well :)

    @ Siva Kiran: I do remember you, pal. Great to see ur comment! Thanks for your comments :)

    Saawan said this on December 25, 2007 at 9:16 pm | Reply

  11. Wow…a great namaste!Really liked it…a small suggestion…how abt cutting the billowing hair[:D] a little…and make it look tapered?

    Anirudh Sravan said this on December 26, 2007 at 10:24 am | Reply

  12. awesome dude.. keep Rocking!!

    pepe said this on December 26, 2007 at 10:45 am | Reply

  13. aweSome!!!

    Chaki said this on December 26, 2007 at 12:53 pm | Reply

  14. I did not like it much. Sorry to say but it seemed to me like a hentai cartoon. I don’t doubt your technical abilities but you must have taken care of correlation between the theme and the gestures or posture displayed by that woman. If the theme is meant to be namaste (which is generally told by bowing your head), I don’t see her bowing at all! Instead it looks like she is chanting some spell in her hands :) kidding. But that was the main posture which any creative person would like to see in a namaste.
    Hope you take my comments positively.
    -Anonymous (I am better this way for personal reasons)

    anonymous said this on December 27, 2007 at 9:19 pm | Reply

  15. :D :D Hmmm… I feel I could sense who’s behind this! By any chance, does your name start with ‘H’? :P

    Anyway, that’s good ‘anonymous’. I like criticism. That’s a stylized vector art. It is just a piece of whole concept that I did for a contest. I’ll be posting the contest entry soon. I presume that you don’t have much info about illustration (your usage of ‘hentai’ instead of ‘manga style’ shows the same). Just do a Google Images search for Namaste and compare the postures to my illustration. There are different kinds of greeting gestures similar to Namaste in Asia Pacific. Some are Gassho (in Japanese), Wai (in Thai), Aayubowan (in SriLanka), héshí (in Chinese or Mandarin) etc. This illustration mainly aims to depict all those greeting gestures. Even the posture in the age old Namaste logo that you find on wedding cards and other ceremonial cards in India is same as the one that I’ve drawn.

    I did a considerable research before illustrating the above. I just presented this piece with a title ‘Namaste’ ‘coz I’m showing this to my friends, primarily Indians.

    Saawan said this on December 27, 2007 at 10:03 pm | Reply

  16. Nice one…

    Anonymous-2 said this on December 28, 2007 at 7:24 pm | Reply

  17. hi saawan.. ur work is awesome man.. how are you? whr r u now?

    saiki said this on December 29, 2007 at 1:35 pm | Reply

  18. hey saawan….really awsome work…..heard u r in chennai now….all d best :)

    harikishan m said this on January 9, 2008 at 9:49 am | Reply

  19. Hey Saawan nice work… can I modify and use this picture in web site?? I am a totally novice in Photoshop/Illustrator, So I can’t take away this awesome picture of my mind… Hope you won’t mind if I use this…

    Thank you!

    m@q said this on September 9, 2008 at 10:40 pm | Reply

  20. @ m@q: Thank you for stopping by, Adnan. I’m glad that you like it. But, it’s not for use anywhere other than my blog. Thanks again for the appreciation. :)

    Saawan said this on September 10, 2008 at 6:17 pm | Reply

  21. hi, I really love ur work.
    I’m developing an email marketing about indian jewels.
    I would like use ur illustration, i’d like ur permission to use.

    i will leave my email, in just case if u has interesting

    i’m from brazil, sorry my english is bad

    xoxo

    Drica said this on June 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Reply

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