The Poor Prostitute....

Something I found a while ago....

Pig Lady....

A while ago, my Irish friend Luke asked me to make him a customized card for his friend...
Merlot, the Pot bellied pig, is supposed to be wearing a hat, and carrying a glass of wine to his lady friend in a rural setting!
I got 2 reference pictures from him, and well... you can see the process...

So I started out by sketching the characters to find the appropriate look and feel I had in mind.

You can check out the process and the end result below.

It's Not Mine...

I suddenly felt the urge to try a new technique, unfamiliar to me and experiment...yesterday night, at midnight!
This is how it turned out...(it is not airbrushed!)
Let me know what you think...

The WiLLowed....

This was in an amazing event in June 2011, Wicker Park.
Wicker Park gathered all kind of arts and music, as well as live performances, as an awareness campaign to help the environment and think green.
I had less than 24hours to come up with something!
This is how I saw it, what We are doing to Mother Nature.
It is very symbolic....
I also did some live illustration on a wall during the event, will post the pictures later.
In the meantime, dwell on this...

Greenish...

This was "unfinishingly" done on March 3, 2011.
It was the last time I saw "The Earing" before it broke....
Musical nostalgia might I say, I never got to finish this piece, just like soooo many others!!
Maybe someday, I will be able to finalize those I left behind, forgotten, lost in time...
In the meantime, take a sneak peek and imagine...

Flow...

An unfinished, unsaved sketch!
Well, I wanted to try something new, so I started sketching...
This is what came out!
While I was reflecting upon the concept, my computer froze!!
This is a screenshot of what's left...
Oh well!
Blurp...

Made For Neither....

A quick raw sketch made on iPhone....

Evil...or....Divine......The Last in Line.......

Evil or Divine...........she's the Last in Line....
Couldn't find anything better but Ronnie James Dio's words.
I think we all are a mixture of both, Evil & Divine....
I don't think it's quite finished, still a work in progress. Might need some rediscovering later.
But the thought is here....Hope you like what you see...

The Ugly Truth.......

My October.....

A couple of months ago, 12 Lebanese illustrators got together to give birth to the "Lebneneez Calendar 1011". I was one of them. Each one of us had to take a Lebanese saying and express it our own way.
I was having a hard time choosing mine...but then it hit me! There was no better example than this one for me :
"Eza 7abibak men 3asal, ma tel7aso kello". Literally meaning "if your loved one is made out of honey, don't lick it all"... That meaning reflects the goodness in one : if someone is good to you, don't take advantage of him!!
And since I felt like almost everybody was stabbing me in the back, what better way than to twist it into my own version!! It became something like this:
"Eza albe men 3asal, ma tel7aso kello". And now, the meaning turned to be on me...if I am good to you, don't take advantage of me.

The original draft was not even close to how it turned out to be, but the visual concept was still the same!!
It's symbolic and it means a lot to me. I took it as a fresh start for myself.

I got to meet the illustrators during the calendar launching and signature.
You can check out Luana's blog (www.luanatic.blogspot.com) to check out the rest of it and have more info on where to find it....

Enjoy :)