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Muhammad Ashraf Akbar | Digital Artwork
My Name is Muhammad Ashraf Akbar, from Pakistan, I was born in Saudi Arabia on 24 Dec, 1982 and spent 21 years in Riyadh. I was a student of commerce but I always liked Cartoons, comics and games. As a teenager, I started painting most of the time. I drew my favorite cartoons and games’ characters- TMNT, Captain Tasubasa, Street Fighters, etc. and my class fellows would buy it from me. It was fun. I was also WWE’s fan, so my friends asked me to draw WWE wrestlers. So, I start practicing anatomy for the first time but it was difficult in the beginning because I was learning on my own. Then I came Pakistan and here I got internship at Sharp Image and then I met several amazing artists in Pakistan Abdul Samad, Khurram Alavi, Anas , Shahan,Muffadal, Saad Irfan, Noman, Adnan Ali and many more. I learnt from them and worked for Sharp Image for about 9 years, then I moved to Nas films. I’m still working on my skills. Learning is a never ending journey but it’s exciting and fun keeps me happy and feeling alive. My parents always encouraged me, I’m so thankful to them and to ALLAH. I’m working on some of my stories related to religion and some of my own interest. In-sha-Allah, I will share it soon. My message to the youth: “Nothing is easy but also at the same time nothing is impossible; keep doing hard work and leave the rest to Allah”.
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The game is Paltering Politicians. Role play as one of Pakistan’s paltering politicians and face several moral dilemmas along the way. Are you going to take the typical route and be one of the many political puppets or are you going to defend yourself and be the hero that the country needs?
Along the way, you can choose to rig the elections, but beware, the lie detector may catch you and give you a nasty shock.
The game ends when one player proves himself to be either the saviour of Pakistan or the reason for its demise.
“Paltering Politicians is a game based on outrageous incidents in Pakistani politics.Our politicians do so many unbelievable things that make the news, however, every time something new happens, the old stories are forgotten. I created this game to eternalize all these incidents, so people can constantly be reminded of their actions.” said Nashra, while talking to Times of Youth.
Paltering Politicians is designed by Nashra Balagamwala
Nashra – A Pakistani experiential designer who is currently based in New York. She studied game design at Rhode Island School of Design. Nashra has also worked with companies such as Hasbro the company that developed games such as Monopoly and Jenga. Describing herself as a lighthearted person her goal in life is to always try to make everything humorous.
She left her homeland and moved to the US 5 years ago. Her goal is to have a chance to pursue her dream of being a designer, and through her work she wants to empower other women to stand up for their own rights.
Nashra’s work transforms controversial and sensitive topics into humorous games, designs and illustrations. Her love for colour and attention to detail is also prominent in most of her illustrations.
You can find more of Nashra’s work here: https://www.nashra.co
I’m just an artist who loves bright horizons and color spots. For his work draws inspiration from one of my very clean and highly energy period full of hope and color, and these are the fifties and sixties of the last century. I try to crashing this colorful touch in today’s gray and material life.
I currently finished the transformation of a bar in Sofia, Bulgaria – and now his breath before the next project. I could barely detect the silhouette of the next project in the distance, but to let him surprise. my message to today’s youth: “you must be the wind blowing the answer – not those who are waiting for answers blowing in the wind”
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I am a 22 year old guy and I’ve always lived in Padua, an Italian city near Venice. I never undertook art studies, I’ve studied in Scientific high school and after I had to choose who I wanted to be, so I tried the test of entry to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, after being admitted, I decided to take the road of design, without leaving my passion for drawing that I had since I was a child. In June 2014, however, I could not wait any longer and decided to paint and since then I have not stopped. In my work, I try to improve the quality of life around me, making the other person happier with my paintings. In fact, before I finish the paintings I ask the subject to finish the work with one final brush stroke made by her/him. In my work I use mainly primary colors, for everyone, because we are all equal, then I wonder what color is the soul of who I paint, and there the people are extremely precise (for example, they not just say green, but say green forest, green leaf etc.), so in the final brush stroke they use them, because if the portrait is beautiful, its thankfully due to the subject, to the person him/herself. In fact, if the people wouldn’t exist all this beauty wouldn’t be around us.
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