Career
Sankar is the artist behind the signature painting of the Vikram and Vetala series, featured in Chandamama. The iconic painting, along with his trade-mark signature that he is now recognized by, was drawn in the 1960s. lieutenant is one of the thousands he has created for Chandamama.
Foreign decades, its illustrators defined the looks of the magazine.
They used line drawings with style influenced by Indian, Oriental, Middle eastern and European artistic traditions. Sankar was born in a village near Erode in Tamil Nadu, India.
His father was a teacher in the local school, and his mother was a homemaker. He has 4 brothers. His ancestors hail from the village of Karatholuvu, also in Tamil Nadu.
In 1934, when a close relative living in Chennai, Tamil Nadu died, Sankar"s family moved to Chennai to live with them.
Sankar developed passion towards art from his childhood. On his history exams, he would create sketches of famous historical characters. However, his family could not afford the costs of his hobby, and so Sankar would help his drawing teacher fix other students" drawings on the weekends in exchange for free drawing materials.
Education and There, he would go on to impress his professors with his unique brush techniques and ability to improvise even while using cheaper quality materials.
Though Chandamama would be his ultimate launching pad, his first job was with another then-prominent magazine, Kalaimagal, which he began in 1946, soon after his graduation from the College of Arts.
