Education
After receiving a degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco. In addition to taking art classes, she briefly attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
After receiving a degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco. In addition to taking art classes, she briefly attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
She currently works and resides in San Francisco, California with her family. Her Every Day Love series captures small moments from every day life in a whimsical manner. Nidhi Chanani was raised in Southern California.
Chanani worked at non-profit organizations before entering the comics field
She often features local Bay area back drops, as well as images derived from her Indian heritage. She explains, "I grew up watching Bollywood films on the weekends, eating Indian breakfasts, and spending time with my Indian family.
lieutenant didn’t ever feel like because I didn’t live in India, India didn’t live in medical Even if I don’t draw something Indian per se, something about my “Indian-ness” will come through whether I make the characters brown or pick a setting reminiscent of India.
There is something about who I am in everything that I do.
And who I am is Indian. I don’t think that is ever removable from what I do."
In April 2012 she was honored at the White House as a Champion of Change. She worked as a concept artist for the 2011 Australian film, Hannah and the Hasbian.
She has also worked with Hasbro, Paramount Pictures and Disney.
She is working on Pashmina, a graphic novel, about first-generation immigrants who find their place in America, due to be published in 2017. Chanani creates her art using digital media, wood burning, and watercolors.
She notes what she uses for tools, "Foreign my illustrations I use flash and photoshop with a heavy dose of brushes and textures I"ve created. Foreign my wood burnings I use raw wood and a professional wood burning pen.".