It started with tiny stickers and a brother to beat.
At seven or eight, Kobit Gurung was hunched over anime stickers with his brother, racing to see who could copy the characters more faithfully. It was never homework — it was a dare, a game, a quiet obsession that refused to stay quiet.
As the years passed, the stickers gave way to sketchbooks, and the kitchen-table rivalry grew into something larger. He began representing his school in district-level competitions, discovering that the thing he did for fun was also the thing he did best.
“Sketching, drawing, painting — I never chose this path. It simply never let me choose another.
No academy shaped his hand. The passion came first, and the craft followed — built one line, one wash, one late night at a time. Today, from a studio in Pokhara, that same childhood impulse drives every brushstroke: the pure, stubborn love of making marks on paper.
