Trying out a few font related things.
A cover for Kotay – sketches in Inkscape
Author: Mishmi Takin
A cover for Kotay – colours
Working on the cover. The elephant is derived from a museum piece on mughal elephant armour. There is a sort of a sketch of a mughal warrior armour/helmet – that wasn’t so good but you can’t tell in this pic. The cannon is derived from a bunch of cannons in India. I’ve iterated the fort for years now but some bits are from the Mehrangargh fort. The depiction of fighting on the right is derived from a beautiful painting of the santhal rebellion (around 1850s me thinks). That bit also has strong warli influence. The colour scheme is mostly derived from warli. Sud made the text. Sud also came up with warli themed art for cover and persisted even when I was super reluctant to try this.
Four colours
Four colours. I made 2 litres of the orange so that I wouldn’t have to keep mixing colours
Quest for the 4th colour
Finding the fourth colour
cover – sketches
Pasting tiles
Pasting
Pasting Tiles -1
Yellow pieces and some designs
Near perfect Sunday. Almost done with the yellow set. Did some cover iterations
Casting the pieces
Kotay work table and the blue army
Finishing of the pieces
I set up a table and started finishing anything post sanding with enamel paint brown. I found that just rubbing with a cloth may be better than doing brush strokes. The former has a much more natural finish. But then we will have to get all the colours.
Sud and I also decided that wet sanding is better – also safer lung wise. And he gave me two clamps so that I don’t have to hold the sand paper with one hand.
Kotay 
