Gouache on watercolour hot press paper
illustrations
Hiking With Babar
This watercolour illustration is inspired by our hike in a small village in Sangla, Himachal Pradesh.
pencil drawing
Ink outlines
first wash background
painting the shadows
The Adventures Of Alia And Sarika
Previouslywritten and illustrated by Jofelyn Martinez Khapra
Why I Write
Telling stories has always been a way of expressing my self, my beliefs and my feelings. I found that it can a drive a point more effectively than a long rhetoric. Stories have won me many friends when I was a kid. Especially horror stories. Kids like to scare themselves silly. I can have them cowering under the covers after I am finished. And since I love to read at a young age I never run out of tales to tell. And now that I am grown up I am happy to share stories I wrote myself. Though I remember having written a short novel when I was in highschool in one of my notebooks. My classmates read it and passed it around. I knew then that I wanted to be a writer. So thank you for sparing a minute or two from your busy lives and stopping by at my page to read some tales I’ve written. You bring a smile to my face. 🙂
My dream is to become a master story teller. From whom words will flow smoothly like water from an eternal spring. And everyday of my life I am working on that.
©JMKhapra