Hello there! I am Jamila Habib, an Illustrator and a Communication Designer. I’m not going to give you the usual story of how I always drew as a child and how I loved art in school and yada yada, because that truly wasn't the case. I never had an answer to the question, “Who is your role model?”, and always had varying answers to the question, “What do you want to become?”. I did dabble in art here and there, but I suppose that was mostly just part of being a child.
I took up science in high school, only because I thought it would make a great story - getting into Mechanical Engineering, being the only girl in class and doing better than the boys and all that naivety. Fortunately, my physics and chemistry books were so drab that I decided not to pursue engineering or any other popular/conventional stream of study. So, I looked for some newfangled streams and fetched up Communication Design, only to realise that all I really wanted to do was to tell stories, all along. Here I am now, creating and bolstering narratives for a living.
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