Mojtaba Heidarpanah
Iranian illustrator (born 1990)
Mojtaba Heidarpanah (Persian: مجتبی حیدرپناه; born 6 April 1990 in Abadeh) is an Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, painter, character designer and animator.
Heidarpanah is best known for his series of cartoons called "Riot Police". From this collection, the work "The Thinker" won the third place in the 37th Aydin Dogan Cartoon Competition.
Mojtaba's digital artwork "Bending Streetlight" has been used as a meme among internet users since 2019.
Early life
Mojtaba, was born in Abadeh city, the sixth child of Gholam Hossein Heidarpanah, known as Hossein the woodcarver, one of the woodcarving masters of Abadeh. In his childhood, he got acquainted with cartoons by reading the Golagha weekly newspaper and started drawing on his own, and received his first cartoon award in 2007 from Fars Provincial Cartoon Festival of (Bread and Art).
Heidarpanah studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yazd University.
Career
He began his career as a cartoonist in 2008, uploading pieces online so that other Persian artists could provide feedback and help him to improve. In 2010, he won the main award at the International Cartoon Festival in Iran with the main theme of "effort".
In a decade of his activity, he has been able to win cartoon festival awards in Iran, Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Slovakia, Brazil Serbia and Turkey.
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