Niloufer Wadia used our readymade narrative called, ‘The Old Lady Who Loved Juggling’. We were beside ourselves with excitement when we saw her illustrations. The explosion of colours, unique perspectives (love the bottom-up view of the splattered mango) and adorable expressions had us wanting more of the little old lady’s adventures!
Niloufer says,
“I do a lot of digital illustration for clients online and for micro-stock, and some art-journaling, but clients for hand-done illustration have been rather thin on the ground, and frankly I’m still honing my styles so I can’t really complain. That was the reason I jumped in when I saw the Pratham Books Challenge about a week back. Even though I had much less time than I would have liked, I was determined to participate. It was an interesting challenge even to myself, because my usual thing is to concentrate on the characters and not get into backgrounds too much.”
Niloufer Wadia’s Illustrations for the #6FrameStoryChallenge by Pratham Books
(Niloufer Wadia is an advertising professional who quit after 20 plus years with the aim of concentrating on just illustration and painting. You can see more of her work here: https://www.facebook.com/niloufer.artist)
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, Krishna 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.