A closer look at process, from studio to finished piece.
Sculpture in Progress
A behind-the-scenes look at a metal sculpture taking shape in the studio.
Studio Walkthrough
A tour of the studio and working spaces.
Portrait Gallery
A walk through the gallery of commissioned portrait work.
Sketches Gallery
A walk through the gallery of sketches and works on paper.
Pagalpan — Music Video
An animated music video sketched frame by frame for a friend's song.
A friend who is a singer came to me for the video of his song. He wanted me to sketch his character and needed a total resemblance of his personality in it. We mutually decided to make it a 2D video. Well, it was a hard task. I developed the concept, then sketched the characters of him and the guitarist, and then disguised them as the characters in the story.
I made nearly 500 drawings for the video in one and a half months. Then I made layers of the drawings on the computer, and to give it a final shape, I hired an animator to turn the files into the final animated video.
Fairy Tale Studio
A gallery walkthrough of portrait work in oil on canvas.
Painting on PAS
A 12ft×12ft canvas painted live on set for the Pakistan Advertisers Society Awards.
Working as Art Director for the Pakistan Advertisers Society Awards, I painted a panel on set myself after learning the time was short and the complete set had to be delivered for the show in just a few hours.
I thought for a second and asked my team to prepare a 12ft × 12ft canvas, then started painting without any sketch. The theme was “A Book”—I drew it directly in 20 minutes and completed the painting in about an hour.
