![]() Draft copies have little yellow Post-it notes with instructions like "Return to green." He has boxes filled with intricate sketches. ![]() Patel drew that tail-on-fire scene for two days straight and worked for a week to perfect it. It ends as thousands of vector points in Adobe Illustrator. The monkey god streaks across a sooty chocolate sky, his tail on fire, setting the demon king's palace ablaze in a bonfire of orange and yellow. The jovial king of bears is all half circles. In Patel's "Ramayana," the evil demons are composed of hard-edged triangles. "The way J-pop's taken over America, I-pop (Indo-pop) could too." "Its bright, flat colors remind me of J-pop (Japanese pop)," says Vij. " 'Loophole' is recognizably Indian and American but is also extremely original." Think Indian history meets Adult Swim. "The art is divine, pardon the pun," quips Manish Vij, who runs the blog. ![]() "Ramayana: Divine Loophole" gives the venerable Hindu epic a 21st century makeover. "It was begging to be illustrated." A mix of culturesįor four years Patel did just that. And it was all action as well," says Patel. "There was a 10-headed demon king, characters that were half monkey, half human, gods, kings and queens. ![]()
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