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Sri Priyatham: Reimagining Everyday Reality

  • August 16, 2021
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Hyderabad-based illustrator, Sri Priyatham, shares insights on the role of illustration in reimagining reality while also delving into his own professional journey.

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Sri Priyatham is a professional freelance artist based in Hyderabad. An Illustrator with a background in Fine Arts and expertise of 10 years in the creative industry, some of his clientele includes Netflix USA, Amazon Prime Video, and Wacom.

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Please share with us your personal journey as an artist, from discovering your art interests to now being a professional.

Sri Priyatham: It started from being a kid with a narrowed focus on Cartoon Network and its cartoons. With my poor performance and lack of sharpness in academics, art grew over me in the early phase of my schooling, where I recreated almost every cartoon I watched.

This included a few hundred Pokemons and Beyblades. Eventually, I was sure I’d pick something relevant to art, even though I knew nothing about a course or designation until I enrolled myself in an art school. There I started freelancing around my 2nd-year with a few independent commissions, to begin with.

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Please name a few projects you’ve done that you’d call your best so far and also kindly take us through it, from brief to result.

Sri Priyatham: A significant assignment was a medical-based project with LVPEI, Hyderabad, on ophthalmological anatomy for the Microsoft HoloLens project with CYIENT. I got to be the design consultant to help 3D artists convert 2D illustrations of human eye anatomy into AR-compatible models for students.

It was a massive learning curve as I got to understand the depths of the ophthalmology department while working closely with veteran eye surgeons for many months.

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Which illustrators inspire you in particular and what about their work or style fascinates you?

Sri Priyatham: Artists I’m inspired by are Jason Seiler for his realistic approach in caricatures and textural aesthetics in digital pieces; Jan Op De Beeck for his masterful lines and exaggeration techniques; Viktor Kalvachev, for his unlimited fantastical characters and lines; Jens Classens for his simplification of forms and Benjamin Bjorklund for his abstract portraits.

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If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself when you were just starting out?

Sri Priyatham: Advice I’d give myself if I could go back in time would be to interact with more people and not let awkwardness or introversion become a hindrance to growth.

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What kind of clients do you prefer or look for and what is your process for collaborating with them?

Sri Priyatham: I prefer people who are realistic in their projects and know what they want – a bit of what they’re getting into, at the least. Also, ones who are totally fine with fluctuating commercial aspects alongside mutual respect for other professionals.

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What would you say are your dream projects and why do you consider them such?

Sri Priyatham: My dream projects involve working with show creators and writers because of my love for screenwriting and filmmaking. The visualization part is what highly fascinates me about a script more than anything. Precisely, a storyboard or a visual narrative–something written by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould.

“The purpose and relevance of illustration, according to me, is to fetch away and realise someone’s thoughts into reality; to make people believe about something unusually beautiful in everything we see every day”

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What, according to you, is the purpose of illustration, and what is its current relevance in the world?

Sri Priyatham: The purpose and relevance of illustration, according to me, is to fetch away and realize someone’s thoughts into reality; to make people believe something unusually beautiful in everything we see every day. To make the world a better place through a lot of transcending messages with art.

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What was the nature of your illustrative work with Netflix, Amazon, and the like?

Sri Priyatham: Most of the creatives I do for production houses pertain to post-release promotion campaigns for their films and shows.

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If you could change one thing about the illustrative world today, what would it be and why?

Sri Priyatham: I would like to change the perception of caricatures and exaggerated illustrations as an art form, in general.

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Finally, what are your artistic influences and inspirations?

Sri Priyatham: I draw a lot of inspiration from popular culture, cinematographers, writers, and musicians like AR Rahman, Hans Zimmer, and Max Richter. Also, people who deal with a lot of nature i.e., people, light, landscapes, psychologies, and auditory patterns inspire me.

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