Drawing caricatures is one of the hobbies that do not require many tools (pencil, quill, ink), and this drawing usually aims to highlight the negatives through criticism, awareness, and entertainment. It also aims to highlight the positives and keep pace with events.
The painter / Abdulaziz Ali Al-Muzaini is one of the young people who excelled quickly in this field, and refined his talent by himself without the help of anyone in that, and here we let him talk about himself and his successful career despite the short period in which he started, as he talks about his works and ambitions
My beginnings: The hobby of drawing in general has been rooted in me since childhood, but drawing caricatures became one of the most important and strongest , and when I thought about entering into this hobby I found it difficult, then I asked myself why I don’t try and see how these cartoonists draw those drawings, and then I started following the newspapers and imitating some drawings I was following the drawings of Mahmoud Kahil and the American painter (Elephant), who was distinguished by simple drawing, and I got to know him through a book that I stumbled upon in the library, and it is the only book available at the time. .
The growth of talent: Before I talk about the growth of talent, I would like to point out that in the past, I did not find any of the teachers urging me to draw a caricature by itself, and I did not find anyone to help me in that. He published it in the newspaper and gave me the appropriate reward that doubled my enthusiasm and love for this hobby.
Drawing ideas: I learned them a lot from sessions with young people, as well as following up on newspapers and what they write of news, events, Saudization and graduates, as well as occasions and seasons (exams, marriages, Ramadan, holidays, studies, Hajj,,) Because these ideas may come to you within one second at a time when you were not prepared for them, and they may not come to you at a time when you are looking for an idea.
The basics of caricature drawing: caricature drawing depends on presenting the idea first, which always attracts the reader to buy the newspaper, and then the hints from one drawing, as well as the process of criticism, how to present it in a simplified manner, and the introduction of paradoxes that occur in society, and it also depends on sleight of hand in drawing, as is the case with the painter Al-Helil .
Al-Muzaini’s drawings are distinguished: My drawings are distinguished by the abundance of lines and shading. In political drawing, I was influenced by Mahmoud Kahil’s drawings. In the social field, I was influenced by Al-Hilal’s ideas and how he presented the joke. As for the method of drawing, as I mentioned previously, I was influenced by the American painter (Elephant).
Production: In the beginning, I contributed to Al-Bilad newspaper, and it published little for me. Due to a misunderstanding, I moved to Al-Youm newspaper. The first drawing that was published and introduced to me by the public was a drawing of the retarded, which consisted of two models of the Arabian Peninsula before deportation and after deportation. The total of my drawings amounted to approximately 1,500 drawings over 3 years. .
Academic level: In fact, I do not hide from you, nor do I hide from the honorable readers, and according to my own point of view, the love of the hobby of drawing cartoons and its success does not correspond to the success of the study. Although, praise be to God, one drawing does not take more than half an hour, but the process of thinking about preparing, presenting the idea, and formulating writing criticism takes I spent a lot of time on it, and I would like to point out a very important point here, which is that the hobby of drawing caricatures is strengthened by studying and vice versa, so I went in the last semester of the study to calm down the enthusiasm for drawing and doubled the focus on studying because the third secondary stage is considered decisive and fateful for the student who has ambition in the future specific.
Ambitions: In the coming days, I will go to another newspaper, although I am still continuing with Al-Youm newspaper, so that my name will remain preserved in the artistic and media circles. He studied this drawing in Italy, Egypt and America, and therefore I aspire to reach the level of international painters and Disney drawings, as this hobby requires a kind of uninterrupted serious knowledge and practice, as well as study also to reveal the probes of this drawing.
After that, I will go to the press and work in the field of journalism, because this drawing undoubtedly supports and strengthens journalistic news and investigations. For example, you have Mustafa Hussein, the editor-in-chief of an Egyptian magazine, who started as a cartoonist.