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Varsha Seshan

Illustrating Picture Books

October 14, 2024 by Varsha Seshan

Most of us have picture books we treasure. These are books we treasure for they bring us comfort and joy even though we are far too old to read them now. We know each well-turned page and recognise every detail of every picture.
How do we create the emotional value of a picture? How do colour, composition and technique come together to communicate emotion?
Through this one-hour online workshop with Ashok Rajagopalan, let’s find out!

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The Art of Zines

May 31, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We just had another rewarding guest session! Niloufer Wadia, an illustrator and Urban Sketcher, covered so much ground in one short hour with my creative writing programme – you can […]

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The ART of Zine – An Illustration Workshop

May 18, 2022 by Varsha Seshan

At this one-hour workshop, learn about zines, explore how we select what to illustrate and then move on to the planning and execution of an illustration.
As this is a guest session at my writing programme, participants who are part of my current batches will be part of it at no additional cost. However, this session is also open to non-participants on payment of a fee.

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The ART of Stories

June 22, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

And just like that, the third and last guest session at this edition of my online creative writing programme is over! This one was an illustration workshop, conducted by children’s […]

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Illustration Workshop: The ART of Stories

June 2, 2021 by Varsha Seshan

Tanvi Bhat is a children’s book illustrator and author who has created books for publishers like Pratham Books, Duckbill and Tulika Books, to name a few. She likes working with watercolours and gouache when making pictures, and scribbling on scraps of paper that she’s constantly losing when she writes.
With her, participants will learn to look at illustration through the lens of storytelling. The visuals often weave a story of their own – how do they do that? Planning, pagination, characters and background design are important. How can we bring them into the illustration process? 

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