One of the most beloved things for many of us is following cartoons in newspapers and magazines. Caricature is that silent art that has a very great ability to influence us because it is a stinging folk art that is characterized by high style at the same time mixed with a kind of humor that inevitably makes you smile even if I was against this kind of art. The satirical criticism that characterizes the personality of cartoonists made them excel in their art and make their art widely known, so that many of his fans are waiting for caricatures after anything new in all aspects of life, and there are many cartoonists, headed by the creative young man, “Abd. Allah Jaber” who is distinguished by his personality, always looking forward to what is new, to establish in his drawings a special identity that distinguishes him from others, to win international awards for that art, so that this artist mixes with his brush between strangeness, artistic audacity, and a charming satirical style to come up with drawings that stick in the minds of his followers, so who is Abdullah Jaber ?
Who is Abdullah Jaber?
He is Abdullah Jaber Ahmed Al-Omari, known as Abdullah Jaber, born in 1979. He moved between several cities in the Kingdom, including Hafr Al-Batin, Al-Namas, Abha and Riyadh. His talent for drawing began to appear at an early stage before he entered school. He took from the scene of his brothers while they were bent on their notebooks as the beginning of his talent. Innate, as he began to write and draw on their discarded papers, and his interest in drawing increased when he entered school, and he was able to be distinguished by his talent, so that his colleagues called him “Abdullah the painter.” He began spending his money on buying drawing tools and developing his artistic skills. In short, he devoted his life to drawing and developing his talent.
He joined the Department of Art Education at the Teachers College in Abha to refine his talent and study the content that he loves and through which he refines his talent, but he was shocked after two years of study when he found that he was not studying what he liked and had nothing to do with the talent for drawing and he wanted to leave the university, but he completed his education there thanks to his mother Which encouraged him to do so, and during his studies he joined a private advertising company that pulled him out of the mud of frustration and he learned new methods of drawing through computer programs and he participated in many competitions in fine art, and thanks to his talent and determination to succeed he won the Muftaha award in 2000 so that he has now become one of the most important Cartoonists in the Arab world, and his name has become one of the most prominent names in the world of cartoons, especially on social networking sites and the Makkah newspaper.
Caricatures of Abdullah Jaber in paper newspapers
The cartoonist Abdullah Jaber explained that he used to draw in order to live, but now he lives in order to draw. He started his working life in paper newspapers at the end of 2006 and continued to work for 6 years, but he did not forget to publish his works on websites. Social communication and he was able to be a large audience and get to know new personalities from different countries of the world, especially international painters from the same field, which affected his drawings.
It is known about the artist Abdullah Jaber that he moved from paper media to electronic media to talk about his experience about the most important points of difference between them. He said that working with paper newspapers creates an artwork that is scheduled to happen in the coming period, but electronic media is characterized by drawing caricatures of events in the coming period. And that traditional work is restricted to a specific period, which forces it to get rid of moods and overcome circumstances.
Abdullah Jaber's aspirations
It is known about the artist Abdullah Jaber that his drawings are characterized as sharp and bold drawings, and this is very natural because he has a stock of ideas and as a cartoonist he likes to practice criticism, but the problem, as he states in his speech to Al Arabiya Net, is that there are those who confuse abuse with criticism, and he also stated that his ambition is not his. An end as long as a feather moves in his hand and can translate his thoughts and what goes on in his mind, and he stated that he is currently working on producing an animated cartoon series that is still in its initial stages and hopes that it will see its light soon