Basit Mushtaq : An extraordinary Graphite Artist from Pulwama

Basit Mushtaq is, a graphite and charcoal based visual Artist hails from district Pulwama. He has an immense passion and devotion towards sketching. Since every sketch artist portrays his feelings and emotions in his sketching so does this fine artist. 

You can easily visualize and interpret the stories concealed in his art. His art mostly depicts the present day unjust situations. His art is the reflection of love, peace and hope.

Basit Mushtaq is presently pursuing Bsc nursing from South Campus Anantnag, University of Kashmir. He maintains a balance between his profession and passion. He holds sway over both the fields. 

Basit Mushtaq believes art is that particular field which makes his instinct feel contented. According to him art brings peace to his mind and soul. He first portrayed the famous afghan girl known as Sharbat Bibi whose photographic portrait taken by photojournalist steve McCurry appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. 

After getting impregnable felicitations he made himself completely absorbed in it. He had sketched plenty of celebrity stars in order to make his art visible to the eyes of world. He believes that an artist does't need expensive tools to create art . Basit Mushtaq is currently creating art out of nothing , a Black canvas and Nothing . 

He portrays things without any purpose of procuring from them rather he does this for his own satisfaction. He believe that anything done with pure dedication and hard work will lead a man towards his achievements and takes him to the peaks of success. He is fully determined towards his work. Initially he started taking assistance from you tube videos and gradually after portraying bit by bit he achieved complete mastery over this. 

Basit Mushtaq believes that an artist needs to be patient and consistent. These two aspects pave the way to success and contentment. He believes that a person gets his results after encountering huge trails and challenges in life. It is also imperative that a person need to be loyal with his work no matter what that is. Besides all this, one should enjoy and love his work rather not make it burden. 

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Curiosity for any kind of work makes a man do onerous and most challenging things with greater ease. He deems that art taught him to accept challenges in life and enhanced his problem solving ability which made him to face and handle real life problems in a very efficient manner. 

Basit Mushtaq has also made a youtube channel namely "Basit mushtaq Art"via which he uploads variety of videos related to sketching which are beneficial for the interested ones. He has started teaching from basics of sketching there.