Image Credit: Karan Acharya's Facebook Wall

Social media and technology are taking over our lives gradually. From sharing images to maintaining a good profile, everything has become so important. Numerous filters and editing software have made it sure to turn our visions into life. Anyone can easily edit themselves at a beach in the Maldives by just sitting at home. And if someone wants to see themselves in the image of their favourite celebrity, they can. Similarly, an artist, Karan Acharya has been turning people into wonderful mythical pieces of art on their request. Karan Acharya is a graphic designer born in Kudlu, Kasargod district of Kerala, India. He is motivated by the artist Raja Ravi Verma and Karan's impressive new artworks are breaking the internet.


Image Credit: Karan Acharya

Recently, in this festive season, a social media user carried to Twitter to request Karan Acharya, to put some energy into an image of a cloud. The talented graphic designer utilized the picture to furnish it the shape of the Lord Ganesha. People were amazed to behold how the graphic designer set life into an ordinary picture of a cloud to give it the shape of Lord Ganesha.


Image Credit: Karan Acharya's Facebook Wall

Karan Acharya is the same artist who’s ‘Rudra Hanuman’ poster was praised by the entire nation and also gave rise to a hugely controversial issue for a few leftists in 2017. However, the criticisms were soon overpowered by the tremendous affection and love the artwork earned on social media. The Prime minister of India, Narendra Modi also praised him for his work calling him pride of Mangaluru during his visit to the city for an election rally in 2018. He was also invited to the Ayodhya art festival in Uttar Pradesh and was part of the first Mangaluru literary festival. In August 2019, he designed the teaser poster the South Indian movie ‘Mundina Nildana’.


Image Credit: Karan Acharya

Presently, this artist has been portraying people into elegant mythical pieces of art on their request. He also shared numerous before-after pictures on his Twitter account. Moreover, a couple from a remote village requested him to portray their family of 3 into Lord Krishna and his parents, the Nand and Yashoda, and the artist delivered it stunningly. Furthermore, the artist has turned natural items like trees and clouds, into mythical gods and several people into some great historical figures.

Image Credit: Karan Acharya

Numerous people praised Acharya for his out of the box vision and hailed the artist ‘blessed’ in their responses. Even after all the acclaims, he confronts various copyright issues on his work, but Acharya gets no royalties from sticker creators or manufacturers, though he expresses that he is glad that his work is being seen by others and that his work ran viral in just 3 years. In May 2018, he pursued copyright protection after a Kannada filmmaker attempted to use the Rudra Hanuman picture for a poster of his film without his permission. But anyway, his excellent artwork earned him a lot of commendations on all social media platforms and it appears to be a pleasure for the eyes to see this artist creating magic every day.

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