Mahoor Jamal is a Peshawar-based freelance fashion illustrator and portrait artist.
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Using Pencil and Watercolor as her base medium while sometimes experimenting with dry pastels and digital art, Mahoor creates beautifully masterful expressions of art.
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Most of her artwork boasts vibrant colors.
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With an emphasis on the “exterior”, represented by these gorgeous faces.
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Which is surprising to some…
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Because of her choice to wear a niqaab in real life.
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Addressing this very concern at her TEDx talk in Islamabad
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Mahoor called out such people.
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Stating that her choice to wear a niqaab shouldn’t have to restrict her artistic endeavors.
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She also discussed at length how the fashion designing community had often pressed her to move out of Peshawar since other metropolitan cities enlisted so many more opportunities.
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Yet she modestly confirmed how her hometown has truly never been a hindrance.
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Mahoor, like many of the Pakistani girls, once took on her parents’ dream as her own.
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…initially applying to various med schools.
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As fate (or luck) would have it, that didn’t quite work out – making way for what was once reduced to just a hobby, as a full-time prospective career.
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Ever since, there’s been no looking back.
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Currently enrolled in her sixth semester
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Mahoor has experience freelance illustrating with a number of renowned designers in Pakistani fashion industry under her belt.
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If her story still doesn’t earn your follow…
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Maybe her instagram gallery itself will do the trick.
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JUST LOOK AT THIS.
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You know you want to.
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“Erase your contradictions, you might just find a friend.”
–Mahoor Jamal
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You can also follow her work here. And here.
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