My interest in cartooning or illustration goes back to the time I spent looking at Inspector Moochwala in Target children magazine, Mario Miranda cartoons in Daily Newspaper. The lines, shapes intrigued me but didn’t spur me to start drawing immediately. The childhood images that I captured did leave an imprint, which is only coming to fore now through my cartoons and illustrations.
During school, drawing was dormant except during summer vacations. Mornings and evenings were reserved for playing, while afternoon was spent sketching with friends. Then came college, where it was more doodling in the notebooks to kill time during classes. And after completing my education, the race to make a career started and sketches/cartooning/illustrations fell by the side, forgotten.
Then after 15 years, i picked up a pencil and started doodling. From dooding, moved to illustrations and then cartooning. And I loved it. I realized sketching helped me relax and gave me peace of mind. It was the ‘my time’ which had gone missing as I was trying to make a career. Thanks to my wife, who also encouraged me to start drawing, I got back to it with gusto.
It’s been a year now and it’s become a weekly habit (every weekend). Thanks to social media, I am now able to share my work and happy to say I have got an encouraging response.
I am an amateur cartoonists/illustrator. And I have no shame in admitting that whatever I draw or sketch is heavily influenced by Mr Ajit Ninan, Mr Mario Miranda and Mr R K Laxman. I use their work as references when I draw. Call it lifting, influence or inspiration; whatever:))
So what is my individual style? Well, my style is imperfect. My cartoons/illustrations are imperfect, the lines are not straight, the hands (I am yet to draw the perfect hand expression:)), the eyes, the expressions; they are all imperfect. Perhaps I want it that way.
Perhaps I want to capture life and all its beautiful imperfections through my ImperfectLines.
In the coming time, will post my cartoons/illustrations of what I see around me.
I welcome your thoughts feedback, thoughts, criticism:) Thank You.
