The protagonist this time round is not a dragon or a dinosaur- it's a grasshopper! Doesn't Vaishali Chudasama's story have a nice, holiday feel to it? We are impressed with her simple yet vivid strokes that will appeal to a wide range of readers!
Vaishali had some lovely words to say about the challenge-
"I participated in the #6FrameStoryChallenge because I found it very interesting and specially this is for children. As an illustrator I love to create illustrations for kids. This Challenge is a really nice concept- it's interesting, challenging & fun to work on. The best thing about it is that this is for kids and goodwill. I like to thank Pratham books for such a competition. It's really good, helpful and inspiring for artists."
(Vaishali has had experience with 2D animation, 3D maya & VFX (Visual Effects) since the past year. She currently works as a freelance illustration artist. Her work can be viewed here:
http://potatoproduction.blogspot.in, http://issuu.com/vaishalichudasama/docs/vaishali_2014)
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
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.