Practical exercise
Copy a truck art panel, then invent your own
Truck art is Pakistan's most-recognised public art form, born in the 1920s in Karachi and refined in Rawalpindi and Peshawar workshops. Every truck is a moving gallery: peacocks, mountain landscapes, eyes, calligraphy couplets, mirrored chamak patti, slogans like 'dekh magar pyaar se' or 'maa ki dua'. Today you copy one panel by hand, then invent a small original panel for your own life. You learn by tracing the masters first.
Now try it
Copy a truck art panel, then invent your own
Stretch
Visit a real truck workshop in your city if any are nearby (Bilal Gang in Rawalpindi, Karachi's Hawkesbay road, or Peshawar's Ring Road). Spend 15 minutes watching one ustaad work. You will learn more in those 15 minutes than from a hundred YouTube videos.
Goes into your portfolio
Two A4 panels side by side: panel 1 the copy from your reference (with the reference photo attached), panel 2 your invented panel about your own life, both with all four regions and a one line Urdu calligraphy on the lower border.