Children's Book Illustration - 'The Honorable Enemy' from 'The Panchatantra Retold'

Pencil Rough Illustration for upcoming children's book 'The Panchatantra Retold'. The story is 'The Honorable Enemy'.

Children's Book Illustration - 'Duly Mine' from 'The Panchatantra Retold'

Pencil Rough Illustration for upcoming children's book 'The Panchatantra Retold'. The story is 'Duly Mine'.

Book Announcement - Learn to Read The Alphabet

Even if you already know your ABCs, a bit of practice can't hurt.

The Book Page is here.

Children's Book Illustration - The Jackal and the Bull

Pencil Rough Illustration for upcoming children's book 'Tales from the Panchatantra'.

Sunday Comic - The Smartist - Are You My Reader?

Inktober Drawing #1 - Dust Bunnies

One of my dust bunnies is still asleep, but Inktober is here. One ink drawing a day this month.

Sunday Comic - The Smartist - Self Help Manual

Sketchbook - Dromfish

This is a Dromfish, a fish yet to be discovered, other than by myself.

Three New Posts of The Smartist

Three new posts of my Sunday comic -

My New Mystery

Sleeping Beauty

Rich and Famous

The Smartist - 5000 Words

I wrote 5000 words every day in August. Which is a new record for me. Three 1st drafts done.

Children's Book Illustration - Cat Chorus

Pencil rough illustration of our upcoming counting picture book 'Cat Chorus'.

Children's Book Illustration - The Villainess

"But, Lady, I'm not even a dalmatian!!"

"Young man, no one's perfect!"

Illustration - The Floral Kung Fu Master

He kicked up a huge fragrance.

The Smartist - Troll Feed

Illustration - The Yummy Mummy

Nefertiti picked up some bad habits when she time-traveled.

Children's Book Illustration - En Familia

Of course, they all lived in a shoe.

The Smartist - The Interview

Sketchbook–Sleeping Girl

Principles of Intuitive Design

The term 'intuitive' gets bandied around a lot in the context of user interface design, but what does it really mean and what are the principles of intuitive design?

To begin with, let us understand the meaning of intuitive. It is something that you do more or less automatically, without too much conscious effort. You aren't born with intuitive skills, you learn them. You may have learned how to perform a particular task by having being taught it, by watching someone do it, by reading how to do it, or by experiment, and once the process has been understood, you begin applying the knowledge in similar or different situations and the more you use it the less you have to think about how to use it. It becomes intuitive to you.

Read more about intuitive design principles…

Illustration–The Writer

I’ve been writing 2500 words everyday. I wake up while it is still dark and I write. Even if, on some days, the words are pure tosh, and I don’t know what I’m doing and where I’m going with the story, I write on and pat my own back for sticking to the schedule. I tell myself that it shows character to go on, and a part of me wants to know if a character heading for the edge of the cliff is the one I really want. I have finished five first drafts in this manner in the last three months  - trumpets! - and the idea of revisiting them for the rewriting is a bit – okay, a lot  - terrifying.  Right now, I just want to wallow in the self-congratulatory mode and not think of the steep uphill climb ahead.