Id Lee and Chil Lee – Ranjani S Shares a Story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge

Maya 9 years ago

The Chil Lee monster is in town and is creating a big powder cyclone. A dragon in a veshti rushes to do some damage control and he has a secret weapon. What happens next? Scroll down to find out.

When we read the few lines Ranjani S sent us with her story we understood why she said she had been giggling while creating it too. “I didn’t really have much time to begin with. I got to know about this challenge a week before the
submission had to be done – hence the jagged lines and blurred backgrounds to speed up work at last minute
and call it artistic insight 😀 But once I had a story in my mind that I was very excited about, I really
didn’t want to let go of the idea and wanted to finish it as soon as possible. It involved eating up early
mornings and late nights (since I couldn’t work on it during office hours) and although I know I could
do better, I’m still very happy with what I could do in such a short span of time! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Thank you for such a wonderful challenge!”, says Ranjani

On why she signed up for the challenge :

“Three reasons –

1. I found these combination of words very interesting and was able to come up with a story that I myself was very excited about. I HAD to illustrate it! 🙂

2. As a freelancer, one gets more offers on portraits – something that requires a reference to sketch. But this is entirely out of imagination and I wanted to rekindle that side of me who wants to draw straight out of the mind.

3. It honestly was fun. You wouldn’t know how much I enjoyed and laughed when I’d to draw the dragon with a veshti (dhoti) :D”

Ranjani S’s Illustrations for the #6FrameStoryChallenge by Pratham Books

Did you see how the dragon mopped up all that chilli dust with the idlis in hand? Cool, huh?

(Ranjani S is a software engineer by profession who loves art more and has had a relationship with art for 19
years. She has learnt the basics of animation and has done a certificate course on Visual Effects from
Escape Studios. She also paints using oils and does digital sketches and custom gifts based on
paintings.)

Read the other interviews by illustrators who took the challenge:

Rajiv Eipe, Kalyani Ganapathy, Prashant Miranda, Kavita Singh Kale, Megha Vishwanath, Priya Nair Panicker, Sweta Roy Choudhury, Paneendra Suresh, Priya Kuriyan, Yulianto Qin, Manjari Chakravathi, Sonal Goyal and Sumit Sakhuja, Samidha Gunjal, Preeti Lata, Shwetha Elisha,Mithila Ananth, Sunandita Mehrotra, Vedavathi Narasimha Murthy, Jithin Jacob, Vidya Gopal,Archana Sreenivasan, Somesh Kumar, Gumani, Antara Mukherji, Anjora Noronha,Vinayak Varma, Soumya Menon, Jisha Unnikrishnan, Kruttika Susarla, Ninoshka Dias, Isha S Valentine, Neelima Raparla, Vallabhi Shegaonkar, Sangeeta Das, Hari Kumar Nair,Lakhsmi Mitter, Lily Banerjee, Aditi Dilip, Niloufer Wadia, Deepa Jayaraman, AnupamaApte, Nishith Mehta, Muhammed Shafi, Amar Soni, K rishna Prakash K,Lavanya Karthik, Sonal Gupta,Kabini Amin, Jason Dvorak, Tanvi Bhat, Ranjani S, Shikha Nambiar, Aritra Roy Chowdhury, Vaishali Chudasama, Sharanya Kunnath, Priya Manikandan, Milan Nayak, Delwyn Remedios, Geetanjali B, Ambica Vinod, Shailja Jain Chougule, Chitra Chandrashekhar, Nikita Modi, David Knight, Geetali Tare, Nilomee Jesrani

If you missed the #6FrameStoryChallenge, but are inspired by the work of fellow illustrators and want to contribute to the open source story platform – do send us your stories! Story guidelines are available here.

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