Dharshana Karunathilake

Dharshana Karunathilake | Political cartoon WEEKLY | IT cartoon MONTHLY | Oil painting portraits DAILY

Bio

Studied at Ananda College, Colombo and
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

1988 - 2001
Artist / Chief Sub Editor / Assistant Editor – Vidusara Science Weekly
Upali Newspapers Ltd.
Writing and interviews of Sociology articles on current matters and translations for the newspaper. Laying out pages and responsible for the accuracy, quality of the magazine and it’s appearance. Visualizing and designing of the cover page to ensure that the newspaper were competitive in the market. Designing of promotional posters, brochures and print media advertisements. Computer graphics including illustrations, graphs and cartoons etc.

1995 - 2000
Assistant Editor – Vathmana : National Newsmagazine
Upali Newspapers Ltd.
Writing articles for the magazine, coordinating staff and freelance journalists, coordinating with guest writers and coordinating interviews with resource persons. Editing and rewriting articles, laying out pages and responsible for the accuracy, quality of the magazine and it’s appearance. Visualizing and designing of the cover page to ensure that the magazine were competitive in the market. Designing of promotional posters, brochures and print media advertisements. Computer graphics including illustrations, graphs and cartoons etc.

1997 - 2001
Webmaster - The Island and Divaina : Internet editions
Upali Newspapers Ltd.
Designing web pages with computer graphics and planning promotional activities such as online election result over the web, for both Sri Lanka’s leading newspapers “The Island” English daily and “Divaina” local language daily.

2001 - 2013
Freelance Cartoonist - Sunday Lakbima
Lakbima Newspapers Ltd.
Providing the Editorial Cartoon for Sunday Lakbima, local language weekly after analyzing the current Political situation of the country.

2014 - 2015
Freelance Cartoonist - SIlumina
Associated Newspapers Ceylon Ltd.
Providing the Literary Cartoon for Silumina - Sunday, for the Literary Section of the local language weekly covers dialogues of local literary scene as well as literary issues common for all.

2006 - Todate
Freelance Cartoonist - Pariganaka
Wijeya Newspapers Ltd.
Providing the IT Cartoon for Pariganaka Magazine, local language monthly for the readership of Information Technology.

2016 - 2019
Freelance Cartoonist - Sunday Lakbima
Lakbima Newspapers Ltd.
Providing the Editorial Cartoon for Sunday Lakbima, local language weekly after analyzing the current Political situation of the country.