people are known to wear different hats and enjoy that and indian classical santoor player rahul sharma is one of them you may call him an artiste as well as an artist for the musician has a hobby that not many know about sketching when hes not holding his wooden mallets he works on strokes of a different kind drawing on canvases and doodling caricatures of anything that catches his fancy including his favourite people whats more hes been able to channelise this part of his creative side often over the last few months of lockdown along with the online concerts and composing i like to sketch i sit out on the terrace here at dads santoor legend pt shivkumar sharma place its connected to a hill and looks so lush green especially in this season you walk out into the drawing room and on the same level you are suddenly in an openair garden his sketching hobby goes back a long way i started with drawing ganeshas as well as nature i prefer to use a pencil as you can get different shades and hues with itamitji is a favouriterahuls sketches of amitabh bachchan and hariprasad chaurasiaand that of donald trump and leonardo di capriowhile some capture places and memories rahul has sketched quite a few famous faces including that of us president donald trump i met trump at an event that i was performing in here as for leonardo dicaprio the musician said that it took him all of 20 minutes to sketch him during the lockdown i try to get it right in the first attempt only its no fun to keep rubbing off sketches he saysthere is one sketch in his collection that is extremely special to him that of superstar amitabh bachchan i have made a caricature of amitji as i find him amazing i have grown up on his movies and he is one of my favourites ive also worked with him a few times on music like on the song yeh kahan aa gaye hum reworked with kenny g i havent got the chance to give him the sketch yet says rahulmusic is said to have a profoundly relaxing effect and rahul says sketching does that too practising music can put you in a completely meditative state as the notes of a raag unfold similarly when you get down to sketch you sit by yourself and focus its completely destressing says the santoor player