MIHIR LELE
ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations | Cartooning
(Above) A self portrait of me painting shoes, one of my favourite past-times.
(Above) Breakfast on the beach with my favouritest human. (Goa, July 2017) One of my fondest memory from that trip! Thought of revisiting it through this sketch!
(Above) A birthday card for my mom on the occasion of her 51st birthday. (Hover over the image,for the arrow keys to show, to navigate back and forth or click on the image to make it full screen for better visibility.)
(Above) A fan art for the Netflix film 'Always be my maybe'. This illustration was shared by both the lead actors of the film, Ali Wong and Randall Park. Click here to see the post.
(Above) An quick Illustration for my colleague to wish him and his wife on the birth of their baby boy. (He is a writer and an avid social media enthusiast hence the elements in the illustration).
(Above) An Illustration for a crossover idea between Disney/ Pixar's Brave and Natasha Lyonne's Russian Doll.
(Above) An Illustration I made of the AIB boys, as a farewell gift to them. My journey with AIB started with a fan-art and it felt right to make one as a little farewell gift. Although we continue working on projects together, making this felt like coming full circle.
(Above) An Illustration of my former boss Gursimran Khamba's dog, Peach .
(Above) A couple of quick illustrations for the end credits of @angadranyal 's stand up special 'Kaafi Filmy' (Very . These illustrations are references to joke premises from the special. These were animated to have a parallax effect. You can watch the end credits here: "Kaafi Filmy" End Credits
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(Above) Tim Burton's Tea Party. An illustration I made with all of Tim Burtons iconic film characters in one frame.
(Above) A christmas illustration for a friend, complete with her cat and her love for balloons and wrapped presents.
(Above) An illustration for a friend, with all the little things she is fond of.
(Above) Biswa Kalyan Rath, is a stand up comic known for his quirky on stage presence and a flair for getting into impromptu conversations with the audience of his shows.
A recent Quora question thread was a couple of people discussing- "Why Biswa Kalyan Rath, the comic, is so rude on stage. To which a person, who happened to be one of the audience members at one of his shows replied- "I was once at his stand up show, when he came up on stage and addressing me, asked-"aye tatti tera naam kya hai? ("what is your name, you piece of shit?")
He recently appeared on an AIB Podcast where they discussed this. The illustration is a reference to the same.
(Above) A sketch for my friend, Mehar Chumble, as a token of appreciation for the music he composed for
my short film, "Arcade Hero" (click on the name of the film to watch it.)
A friend wrote a couple of poems that really resonated with me. I decided to do some sequential art for it.
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Sunday
Someday I'll have a car,
A home in the woods, but not too far
I will dance until my feet are sore
I will purr, growl and roar
I will spread my wings and fly
I will climb Mt. Everest on my 127th try
I will devour the entire map
But today, I will take a nap.
Feeling Blue
On somedays I'm mad at everyone
I just want to cry sitting on my bum
Everything seems meaningless
Even exercise, raindrops and my new dress
On those days I meet ol’ friends to sulk
We eat candies, pizzas and ice-cream in bulk
I think of all the extra pounds I’ll gain
And just like that, I get sad again .
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Paranoia
I'm scared of fire
and that loose electric wire
I'm scared of heights,
water and flights
I'm scared of the ceiling fan
and that creepy 'Ba-ba-dook man!'
I'm scared of existential questions that arise from within
but more than anything,
I'm scared of mom when my room is unclean
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Tiny Tommy
Tiny Tommy saw a dream
In a desert, he was chugging a 'cherry-on-top-icecream’
It was hot and humid, he woke up with a start
without tasting the cherry, which was the best part!
He finally fell asleep after a lot of pain
but this time the desert turned into rain
The cherry flew away into an upstream
Tiny Tommy woke up from his dream
He tossed and turned in bed
and reached the freezing land of the dead
the cherry sat on a corpse so old
Aaachooo
Tiny Tommy woke up with a cold!
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(Above) An illustration I did for my friend, with a bunch of inside jokes.
(Above) An illustration for a friend, who loves taking selfies with her utterly disinterested cat.
(Above) A tribute to my friend's dogs. (Hover over the image, for the arrow keys to show, to navigate back and forth or click on the image to make it full screen for better visibility.)
(Above) A caricature of the insanely talented stand up comedian, Mr. Abish Mathew.
(Above) An artwork for my grandmother, that I made on her 77th birthday, with all her favourite things to do- writing letters, going through old pictures, talking on the phone for hours and gossiping. Apart from ofcourse, trying out different hairstyles. (Hover over the image,for the arrow keys to show, to navigate back and forth or click on the image to make it full screen for better visibility.)
(Above) A birthday card for my friend, with of all her favourite things.
(Above) A set of illustrations for a show called "Captain Calling Captain" written by EIC's Sahil Shah as part of promotions for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team's social media page during the Indian Premier League. The idea was to show funny post match banter between Virat Kohli, captain of the Bangalore Team and Captain Morgan. See the video here : https://www.instagram.com/p/BhjItfMhh9X/
(Above) A birthday card for my friend, with of all her favourite things.
(Above) Fan Art for a very talented, extremely funny stand up comic, Mr. Tanmay Bhat along with a screenshot of the tweet he put out after I'd sent him the art work.
(Above) A birthday card for my friend, Atmeek. He is very fond of animals. From fish, dogs and hamsters to the slightly more unusual ones like tortoises and parrots, He's got them all as pets at his house.
So i thought of giving the card a biblical reference, calling him "Noah ki aulaad" (Noah's son) The boat representing of course, Noah's ark.
(Above) A looped animated gif to promote a pre-diploma display, a display of their work before they venture out to do their final project. For my college batchmates, Pragun Agarwal And Jyothi Iyer.
(Above) Watched #TheGreenMile a couple of days back and couldn't help but draw similarities in the characteristics of Michael Clarke Duncan's character and Wreck it Ralph.
(Above) Weekend mood ft. Burrito Cat
(Above) Shraddha Sarfare, former Post Production Head at Only Much Louder (OML), commissioned this poster, for her to put up in the living room of her new home.
The poster, as per brief, had to primarily consist of almost all the Indian comedy specials and web series' that were produced under her at OML, with more detailed illustrations of some of her favourite ones from amongst those.
This project was special for me since almost all the Amazon Prime Video titles I've worked on, were under her leadership. I tried to include not just all the projects she's headed the post for while at OML, but also all the little things, quirks and inside jokes, that made my time at OML so memorable and made a freelancer like me who was just starting out, feel right at home with such a big team. The illustration includes caricatures of stand up artists like Kanan Gill, Sorabh Pant, Sumukhi Suresh, Biswa Kalyan Rath and many more.
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