Category: Fanart

  • Sunday updates (+Fanart #10)

    Yesterday, Saturday 27th February, I got the chance to give a presentation to the children of the Armenian Thorossian school in Bourj Hammoud. We talked about drawing, blogging, going after what you truly like doing in life. And we had a lot of fun! I only have this terrible photo that I took with my phone from where I was presenting.

    In other news, yesterday was also the book signing of the illustrated Arabic poetry book Haltabees (حلتبيس، اشعار من سمسم وخيار), result of the collaboration between the incredibly talented David Habchy & Rania Zaghir. Mashrou3 Leila also sang the poems, and cucumbers & semsom were given away with the book. Beautiful combo & beautiful people! AND I got my copy signed! 😉

    I wish you a beautiful Sunday, and I can only tell you one thing: you’re in for a special surprise tomorrow!!! 😉 So stay tuned! And while you wait, I leave you with Lhasa de Sela’s Desdeñosa.

    Un, deux, trois. Deux, deux trois…

  • Buzz off! (+fanart#9)

    This guy has too much work, too many emails and an abundant inbox

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    Sometimes, he gets distracted [by twitter birds]

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    Well, nothing a CTRL + Q can't fix. Quit and focus back on work.

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    Now, things will never be the same again...

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    Google Buzz is IN your inbox and you can't quit it!

    I will be posting weekly tech-related comics on InterativeME website! That was the first one that was posted yesterday. Now seriously, what do YOU think about this whole Google Buzz thing?

    Before I leave you back to your busy days I want to share with you this beautiful fanart by Peno Mishoyan. Thank you SO MUCH Penig 🙂 !!

    And last but not least, here’s the song of the day, by an artist whose music has charmed me for the past few days: Andy McKee ~ Africa.

    09 Africa

    Enjoy! 😉

  • Fanart#8 + interview

    Today I got interviewed along with Ayman Itani & Samer Karam on Future TV by Amer Tabsh, in Alam Al Sabah morning show. So I got to publicly express how Twitter & Facebook have brought me closer to you my darlings! 😉

    And here’s a very touching illustrated strip I got from Rita.

    Fanart from Rita el Hajj

    I have one thing to say to you Rita…

    Thank you Rita!

    Hope you enjoyed the show, and here’s a jazzy tune for you to enjoy on a breezy Sunday (a big thanks goes to Abz who has been emailing me beautiful jazzy songs!)  Lisa Ekdahl’s But Not For Me from her album ‘Heaven Earth & Beyond’. Cheers!

  • Fanart #7

    The latest very sweet fanart I received is from a Lebanese musician. It’s a beautifully painted porcelain piece, containing one of the comics from the Celebration story! I can’t tell you how touched I was to see it … Thank you 🙂

    In other news, Philippe El Hage’s website that I’ve been working on is up! Philippe is my all-time favourite jazz pianist. More on http://www.elhagephilippe.com/.

    Have a great weekend my darlings, see you Monday!

  • Fanart #6

    I’m SO happy! Just got a fanart by the very sweet Beshr Kayali. Thanks so much Beshr, it’s lovely! Beshr & his bro Mohammad are one of the pioneers of podcasting in the Arab World. More on Hyperlink Podcast.

  • Photos of Jordan (+fanart #5)

    I was glad to meet wonderful artist Ali Maher, who was so kind to draw me the image below on the placemat paper at the restaurant while we had dinner. Thank you Ali! You’re such a special person 🙂

    For the photos, there’s more on Flickr & Facebook but here’s a selection for the blog:

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  • Fanart #4

    This week’s fanart is by Funkyozzi. New style: Only one eyebrow!! 😀 Thank u Liliane!!!!!!!!!!!

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    You can find Liliane on her blogs here & here.

  • Fanart #3

    And this week’s fanart is from the lovely Darine & Ghassan.

    Darine’s drawing: ‘i drew it on my payslip… proportions are a mess i know’

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    Ghassan’s full post! 😀

     

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    Beautiful stuff! 🙂

  • Fanart #2

    Fanart #2

    And this week’s fanart was sent to me by the lovely Mireille (@migheille) author of the blog LifeGeeked.com. Thank you so much Mireille for this beautiful ASCII art! Click on the image to view it in large size.

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    ch33r5 ! – m!r fr0m l1f3g33k3d.c0m

    Here is Mireille’s message along with the art: “ASCII FAN ART !!!!!  😛 well ok… it is bit nerdy ! i admit ! but hope it still counts as fan art ! I can do something in colors , and another image if u want”

    Thank you SO much Mireille! It totally counts as fanart.. never crossed my mind to do those illustrations in ASCII! Brilliant & creative 🙂

     

  • Fanart #1

    It all started on Twitter when @ghassanb decided to try to draw the main character of this blog. @Beirutspring suggested to take this idea further, by sharing different personal interpretations of the character. @Hatemdex also sent his hand drawn sketch. Thank you guys for sending me my very first fanart! 🙂 What do you guys think?

    fanart-ghassan
    By Ghassan (@ghassanb)
    fanart-beirutspring
    By Mustafa (@beirutspring, beirutspring.com)
    fanart-hatem
    By Hatem (@hatemdex)

    If you’d like to try your take on this, feel free to send it to me (my email is in the “About me” page of the blog), and I’ll add a fanart post every once in a while… Until then, have a great day!