metaHatem

suspense 2

2012-02-07T14:34:00.004+02:00

suspense 1

2012-02-05T18:06:00.003+02:00

hello :)

some of what I`ve been working on :)

2011-11-09T01:18:00.001+02:00

Building a website :)

2011-08-30T00:29:00.001+02:00

Go Check it out :)
http://www.metahatem.com/

Ramadan

2011-08-12T15:10:00.000+02:00

Happy Ramadan to All :)

New cover for Majid Magazine

2011-07-08T02:06:00.000+02:00

There it is!

Wazifat Mama: Mama's Job (Arabic Edition)

2011-06-30T18:02:00.000+02:00

Wazifat Mama: Mama's Job by Abir Ballan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I had the pleasure of illustrating this book, I haven't seen a mother who didn't love this book and wanted to read it to her kids. I find it's a very important-yet forgotten- subject..we live in a time where we forget to appreciate what's important sometimes and to give praise to many great mothers and what they go through to make their kids the best they could be and help them through life as well..it is a lot of work!!

I hope this would be translated to many languages !

View all my reviews

Unexpected event on goodreads

2011-06-30T17:42:00.001+02:00

حدث غير متوقع by رحاب مُلاه

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Rihab has done an excellent job making this important book fun, attractive and easy to read..education via storytelling is done beautifully in this book..

I'm not going to comment on the illustrations as I was the illustrator ..all I can say I enjoyed working on the illustrations and feel proud to be a part of making this book.

رحاب ملاه قد أبدعت في جعل هذا الكتاب قراءة ممتعة لموضوع مهم في حياة كل فتاة..شرفت برسم الرسومات لهذا الكتاب القيم و أرشحه لكل الأمهات و الفتيات في الوطن العربي

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Facebook Page

2011-05-10T14:30:00.000+02:00

Just announcing it since I forgot :D
Go LIKE>>>> http://www.facebook.com/metahatem
you are free to be my friend too if you want

TEASER :))

2011-03-09T19:18:00.002+02:00

New Book....

For The present

2011-03-09T19:17:00.000+02:00

The Mid-East Gang

Sage

2011-01-13T17:35:00.000+02:00

The revenge of Donald Duck

2011-01-13T17:04:00.000+02:00

An unexpected event

2011-01-04T20:47:00.000+02:00

I was honored to illustrate this important book for every girl..
Many thanks to Rihab Molah for this oppurtunity and Dar Asfar as well.
I had made this book in cute manga style..it was a nice experience ..hope I did well :)

dragons!

2010-12-21T01:03:00.001+02:00

just to put something :)

Tell me tales

2010-12-15T19:29:00.000+02:00

if you're familiar with Kaliala & Dimna Tales, or Panchatantra or Jataka tales , that's is what it's about :)

Nighty night

2010-11-15T23:17:00.001+02:00

These were for the

R.E.A.L. The Canadian Kids' Magazine

Wazeefat Mama (AKA Mama's Job) is here :)

2010-11-08T01:51:00.000+02:00

Got my copies in the mail a couple of days ago..

Thanks you Kalimat :))

On the Nile

2010-11-05T02:00:00.000+02:00

Follow me on twitter :)

2010-11-04T23:42:00.000+02:00

http://twitter.com/metahatem

only if you're interested :D

some Sketchcrawl stuff :)

2010-10-23T17:10:00.001+02:00

from my trip to Halifax :)

dragons and clowns!

2010-09-23T16:30:00.001+02:00

a little glimpse on canceled projects !

[IF] Acrobat

2010-09-22T21:54:00.000+02:00

this is an OLD one ..but I wanted to post something for illustration Friday this week...fits the theme :)

The baker Returns!!

2010-09-15T17:58:00.000+02:00

with a sketch :)

Baker and family breakfast

2010-07-16T20:46:00.000+02:00

this is one of 3 illustration done for the R.E.A.L Canadian magazine for kids..I'll share the rest when I get my copies :)

[IF] Diary

2010-07-15T18:46:00.000+02:00

This is an old sketch that describes what I did this week (still need to clean around )

[IF] satellite

2010-07-01T16:29:00.002+02:00

Around the World in the Blink of an Eye

2010-06-29T20:11:00.001+02:00

I'm proud to be a part of this book..
Written by Lou Hood and illusrated by many wonderful illustrators from all over the world..
I was lucky to represent my country Egypt and Lou was very nice to include my son's name Khaled in the book!!! :):)
The Book is published by we(e)press .. you can read all about them and about CODE on their website
make sure to follow them on facebook and twitter as well
and if you want to buy a copy here is how <<<<<<;-------click

Note: cover is by Chris Raschka (not me hehehe)

sketches from what I am working on now

2010-06-23T02:38:00.000+02:00

umm..some primarily sketches of characters... details are to be shared later :) personally I want it to turn out nice ! wish me luck.. and let me know what you think!

Ripple!

2010-06-18T03:12:00.001+02:00

Art by me

Idea: Michelle Pinet :)

Melvin says there is Monters!!!!

2010-06-15T23:44:00.000+02:00

Behold Melvin's world of Monsters ..
I enjoyed making the illustrations for this..
make sure to check out the website too
oh and you can get it full from there

An Egyptian touch

2010-06-12T00:53:00.000+02:00

well.. it's always nice to work on books from home "Egypt" ..these are supposed to be for educational books .I could use them to teach my son when he's older :)

I know it's a big post ..so..is there ones that you prefer the most? I'd love to hear opinions :)

published!

2010-06-09T16:25:00.001+02:00

It's time to share some of the recently published illustrations :)
There is a couple of R.E.A.L. magazine's :

Got my copies of "King of soccer" !

And this is one of 5 books I made, the publisher is in Egypt so they were nice enough to send me a video of how one of the books turned out :)

old watercolors

2010-05-17T03:17:00.000+02:00

I have made these about 7 months ago before my son was born..I thought I'd share them :)

A snowy story

2010-05-13T02:01:00.000+02:00

and it made it to the cover of the R.E.A.L Canadian magazine for children..
here is the cover and illustrations and some sketches :)

BRAVE 2

2010-03-06T14:52:00.000+02:00

There was once a little Egyptian farmer boy who had a BRAVE horse........

BRAVE 1

2010-03-06T04:20:00.000+02:00

some brave moments in Nazeef's life
(edited to participate in illustration friday theme of this week)

a story of slavery

2010-02-25T17:29:00.000+02:00

Made these for The REAL Canadian kids magazine .. Learnt a lots of new things from this one>>

..the last sketch was not included in the story..

back to normal

2010-02-07T05:36:00.001+02:00

Focus

2010-02-01T04:16:00.000+02:00

opps!

Fiona's sneeze touchable

2010-01-18T03:34:00.000+02:00

this is old news but I thought I'd share it anyway, that was when I got my copies of "Fiona's sneeze" , you can also see a bunch of sketches I was working on :)

Happy Days

2009-12-25T18:20:00.001+02:00

For many people it's the Holidays season this time of the year, whether if it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Hijra (Hijri year), Rohatsu (Bodhi Day), Ashura, or whatever day you consider a day of peace and celebration among yourselves, your family and your friends or just a good book or a blank piece of paper that you try to make it mean something or just time that you consider precious and worth some extra joy , for this happy holidays whoever , wherever you are.
Now, funny thing I noticed.. 2010 is coming soon, isn't it special that 20 is the double of 10? last time tis happened was on 1806..then I started thinking ..hmmm..something is in common between 2010, 1809, 1608 , 1407, 1206, 2211 !!! and it's always 201 years in between!!(except the 2 digits years like years 21, 42, 63).. so what's my point?! I have no point.. I just wanted to say Happy New Year to everybody and add a little conspirecy to it for fun hehehe!.. but I'm not so serious about these "silly" observations... of course..
ok I'll go look up what happened in these years.

New parent

2009-12-21T01:23:00.000+02:00

For all who don't know yet..

I am a father !!

My wife and I are blessed with our baby boy "Khaled" and he's 5 weeks now!time is running!

so I'll get back to posting work every now and then.

I thought I'd share the news :)

Pablo

2009-10-31T16:17:00.001+02:00

Some pages from a book I finished last month for Rubicon publishing house

Frozen [IF]

2009-10-19T20:21:00.000+02:00

For illustrationfriday

Mother and Daughter

2009-10-19T01:36:00.001+02:00

some samples from a book I did for a wonderful publisher in UAE, Will share more information when the time is right :)

Glad to be still able to make books in Arabic for kids :)

Fiona's sneeze

2009-10-15T00:10:00.005+02:00

ok so I decided to get back to posting some stuff on the blog again ..
I've been wanting to post some of the work I did for Rubicon Publishing and now is the time, there, some pages from the book "Fiona's sneeze".
You can even find it on chapters :)
I'll be putting a button later!

and these are some sketches from the same book..

2009-09-03T00:12:00.003+02:00

more work to Fusion Multimedia :)

being good

2009-08-20T18:38:00.006+02:00

A story I illustrated for Basim magazine, about a messy boy who was taugh to put importance in having a system and order to make his life easier.
note: read from right to left :)
يا مصر !
عاملين إيه.. حد متابع الكلام دة :)
عاوز رأيكم ديماً ..

more animals..for FUSION this time :)

2009-08-16T22:35:00.003+02:00

A couple of pages I did for Fusion multimedia based in Egypt, this is a part of a 12 pages book that teaches a letter from the Arabic alphabet, obviously it's a part of a series that covers all the letters of the alphabet, a book for each letter made by different authors and wonderful illustrators, I am so happy to be a part of such project and to get to work with some dear friends that I haven't seen in a while now.
I'm working on more books, so I'll try to share more stuff later :)
salam

some animals I found in my sketches :)

2009-07-11T02:45:00.003+02:00

Kalliope's Little princess

2009-06-20T02:21:00.002+02:00

here is an update, the third Cover I did for Kalliope Audiobook for the book A Little Princess
I'll share more stuff soon :)

with Kalliope

2009-06-08T01:20:00.002+02:00

I think it's time for me to update this blog, and have been looking forward to share these covers that I made for the wonderful Kalliope Audiobook, I have also included some sketches for 2 covers and the Kalliope character that you can find on the website..

This is for the book "Seven Little Australians" by "Ethel Turner"

This is for the book "Five Little Peppers" by "Margaret Sidney"

These are some character sketches from "5 little peppers" :)

Kalliope sketches :)

Oh, this is just a teaser to one more cover, I will post the ful cover when they put it on the website, so check up later :)

don't forget to check the website http://www.kalliope-audiobooks.com/

I will try to reply comments if there is any as fast as I can so let me know what you think

Ninjanimals Kidz

2009-03-01T17:44:00.006+02:00

These are some of the work I am doing for Ninjanimals Kidz , check out the website to see all the goodies :) , I'll make sure to reply your comments and forward your questions.

good old Basim magazine

2009-01-20T03:45:00.002+02:00

since I just did some work for Basim magazine I was looking at my old work there and decided to share some old unshared illustrations :)
these probably have been published between 2005 and 2007 and was mostly for puzzles in the magazine.
these posts also has work thet I have done for Basim magazine:
http://metahatem.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-of-my-earlier-work.html
http://metahatem.blogspot.com/2007/07/thanks-and-some-updates.html

anyway, I have some work in progress that I'll try to share as soon as I can..
...

Introducing Mohsen

2009-01-20T03:35:00.005+02:00

this is some of the work i've done recently for Basim magazine, the script is by Wael Sa'd , and illustration by me of course :)
this is the first sketch of the main character "Mohsen"

now some sequential art :)

again .. storytelling is from right to left :)

introducing NAZEEF

2009-01-15T01:35:00.007+02:00

I thought I'd share some of my work since I've been busy and lazy putting anything online recently, this was for nona magazine in Egypt. Nazeef is a little boy obsessed by cleaning and he always invent some funny machines to help cleaning something but always mess it up even more..
I have more stuff to share, I will try to post them sooner than soon :)

note: storytelling goes from right to left here :)

اصدقائي وزملائي إلي بقالي كتير مكلمتهمش .. أنا أسف جداً و هحاول أبقى على إتصال .. الحياه لسة صعبة و ديماً مشغول ..
اعذروني و يا ريت نفضل على إتصال ..و لو حد عند أخبار يبعتلي ايميل و يقولي :)

سلام

the little ones

2008-11-11T04:55:00.006+02:00

I thought I'd share...

more earlier work

2008-08-24T01:28:00.003+02:00

yes..
I'll try to share more and more..

some of my earlier work

2008-08-24T01:21:00.003+02:00

I thought I'd share these :)

IF-detach

2008-08-17T04:04:00.003+02:00

this week's illustration friday subject is "detach"..

joaquim( AKA wakeem)

2008-07-31T19:30:00.005+02:00

I did this comic strip last winter and thought I'd share it now hehe
anyway.. I am sorry about the long absence, so much is happening since I moved to Canada and we recently bought a house and just had internet connection not so long ago at all.
I will try to keep the blog updated as much as I can.
thanks for everybody who had left a comment here and keep me informed about how i'm doing :)
oh one last thing I just joined childrensillustrators.com , you can take a look at this link http://www.childrensillustrators.com/hatem and let me know what you think,

ciao

spring cleaning surprise

2008-05-20T16:05:00.002+02:00

this was for a contest for the SCBWI website but I didn't win.. I thought I'd share.
hope you like! :)

wrinkles

2008-04-30T03:54:00.001+02:00

this week's illustration friday theme

homage

2008-04-02T01:53:00.002+02:00

to childhood.
for illustrationfriday.com

heavy

2008-03-19T17:38:00.003+02:00

this is for illustrationfriday.com
let me know what you think. :)

Illustration Friday : Garden

2008-03-11T16:42:00.003+02:00

for IF
let me know what you think :)

for those who are asking : I am still looking for a job as an illustrator in Canada( seems harder than i thought), but it's ok, I'll get something eventually, just wish me luck :D

Illustration Friday : Multiple

2008-02-28T00:18:00.002+02:00

for illustration friday
subject is "Multiple"
hope you like!

looking forward for spring

2008-02-25T16:56:00.001+02:00

hey, winter is cold here !!!!

I am still alive

2008-02-18T23:37:00.004+02:00

hello there..
I just wanted to confirm that i am still living.. I am sorry I was absent all that time.. just trying to organize myself in Canada since I moved here..
trying to get into the illustration business in Canada ..so wish me luck ;)

I'll try to keep in touch and update often..
here is some stuff :)

some disney princesses

2007-07-24T21:06:00.000+02:00

my last job in egypt was a mural for a bookshop full of characters that children likes..the deadline was tight and i was able just to draw and ink them..didn't have the chance to color them..
i'll try to share a couple of characters before i leave :D
for now..those are some quick sketches i did between tasks ..
i was lazy to scan them all..just picked the disney princesses thing..
for me jasmine is the hardest to draw for some reason..a little mistake and she's not pretty anymore
i hope you like it :)

Thanks and some updates :)

2007-07-24T20:59:00.000+02:00

thanks a lot fr those who wish me luck...i'm sorry i'm so busy to reply..i hope i'll be more available soon...
i'm leaving to canada tomorrow night ..
here is some updates in case if i was away for a while..i'll try to post again tomorrow moring :)

off to CANADA(edited)

2007-07-03T02:20:00.001+02:00

this is an illustration i did for basim magazine for kids..

so..hello..
i've said this on my deviantart page..and i'll say it here too
so please read :)

i'm sorry i don't thank everybody at their page like i used to..and that i don't comment often on your work..

but i hope this will get better by time..things have been a mess and it's getting organized now..i've been really busy with some stuff and now i'm ready to share some news and may be ask for guidance too!

i'm moving to Canada later this month..i'll be leaving on the 26th..and this is going to be a huge change in my life that i'm excited about

i still have no idea where or what or how i'm going to work there..or even where to look..what's the best or not..and stuff like that.. i'm still clueless and worried financially but i think it will be ok.. i can wash dishes after all hehehe!

if anyone here have any advice work(and life) in canada..and where i might look for a job that have something to do with drawing i'd be so grateful!

probably i'm going to be living in vancouver BC or toronto ON ..but i'll go to my wife at NB first..and i'll stay there to finish some papers and make some visits for a couple of months then we're moving after!..i'm thinking toronto ..hmmm..

right now i'm working a lot to collect some funds before i leave..and spending time with family and friends..god knows when i'm going to see them again and that i really will miss them so much..

i'll make another journal before i leave..i just wanted to share my news and if you have any advice i'll be thankful ..

or you can just wish me luck

so..wish me luck guys!

Cheers!

the illustration just in case if you don't care :D

the rabbit and the hedgehog

2007-06-30T00:06:00.000+02:00

yes.."the"
as simple as that hehe!!
..
an illustration for basim magazine for children!

hope you like!

some illustrations

2007-06-26T23:07:00.001+02:00

hello..
i've been busy..and i have news..i'll share it soon
for now ..
i'll just share these illustrations hehe..and i'll try to post more..so check the blog often then!
cheers :)

more..sequential pirates

2007-06-10T16:33:00.000+02:00

.............bléh!

some pirates of the caribbean stuff

2007-06-10T16:14:00.000+02:00

it has been a while since my last post
there are some silly stuff related to or inspired by pirates of the caribbean the world's end is some way or another
note: still haven't watched the movie hehehe
let me know what you think!
cheers!

thanks to the ganzeerian ters!

2007-06-10T14:54:00.000+02:00

many thanks to the Mohammad A. Fahmy and all the ganzeer niceness and those pretty words about me in the "ters" blog..
as said:
Ganzeer is Experimental Arts Unit is a multi-disciplinary art studio working out of Cairo, Egypt
so go there to get a boost of creativity !
cheers ;)

colored!!

2007-05-10T03:46:00.000+02:00

so first sorry for the long absense and not leaving comments to your art lately.. and god knows how much i love to look at your work..well..let's just say i'm really busy..work and personal life ..

well i'll try to post more ..but i promise i'll be more active by next month :)

so this is the colored version..it's all done with adobe illustrator.. and by the way it's my first attempt ever with a vector based software and it took me long time to get used to it ..would've taken me 1/10 th of time if done in photoshop..it might need more work ..but i'm happy with it...so have mercy :D
hopefully i'll get better :)

some sketches

2007-04-16T14:28:00.000+02:00

well.. these are sketches for something that was kind of rejected..not totally..
so.. i'll post the colored ones when i'm calm! grrrrrrr!
frustrating i must say... duh!

G R E E N (illustration friday)

2007-04-13T04:57:00.000+02:00

this is for illustration friday "green" theme!
hope you like it..:)
it was fun!

around the world

2007-04-11T03:19:00.000+02:00

i found some old stuff ..i'll be posting some every now and then :D (along with the new stuff)
this was a series of puzzles were you have to guess what country those 2 boys are visiting each issue.. the backgrounds are edited photos..
done last year for "basem" magazine for kids!

the timeline of sham el niseem

2007-04-08T03:53:00.001+02:00

شم النسيم عبر التاريخ
شم النسيم دا حكايته حكاية..أكتر عيد تم اقتباسه و تعديله و تغيير مواعيده و رابط بين كذا ثقافة بشكل ما مبهم و غير مباشر..
انا كنت بفكر في أصل اليوم ده و نتائجه لقيت في تفاصيل صعبة جدا ..
الموضوع بدايته من زمان جدا ..(انا معتمد تماما على معلومات عبر قرائات و سمع و حوارات من الطفولة و حتى الأن.. فا لو غلطت ياريت تصلحلولي المعلومة ! )

- العيد هو عيد الربيع المصري من ايام الفراعنة(أكتر من 5000 سنة و كان من الأعياد المهمة لأنه كان حسب أعتقادهم يوم بدأ الخلق و ميلاد العالم.

- كانوا بيحتفلوا بأكل الأسماك المملحة و البيض واللذي منه زي دلوقتي كدا..بس مع رموز و دلالات دينية و نقش الأماني على البيض رمز بداية الحياة.

- زي ما احنا عارفين بني اسرائيل يوم ما خرجوا من مصر كان يوم مصر عندها عيد و بني أسرائيل هربوا في اليوم ده و ربنا نجاهم من فرعون و جنوده ففرحوا و خلوه يوم عيد برضه. فا بقى عيد الربيع المصري نفس يوم عيد " أو الفصح بكسر الصاد ..أو عيد العبور بتاعهم يعني..

- مرت سنين و كان احتفالهم صوم و عبادة و بيض و خس و بصل الى اخره..و أختلاف التقويم ملخبطني بس كان كل سنة يجي في وقت مختلف شأن التقويمات المختلفة و دخلت عليه طقوس من ثقافات تانية.

- حسب الأعتقاد المسيحي ان أحداث الصلب و القيامة كانت في الأيام المفترجة دي.. و المسيحيين الأوائل ما حبوش يحتفلوا بيه عشان بيرتبط بأحداث مفجعة.. لغاية ما تم الأتفاق على انها ذكرى يجب الأحتفال بيها مع صبغ البيض لون أحمر رمزا لدم المسيح و يكون دايما يوم الأحد..لأسباب كتيرة منها مخالفة اليهود حسب أراء و أراء شايفة انه "لأ طبعا الموضوع غير كدا"

-و لما دخلت المسيحية مصر كان المصريين طبعا "الله ؟..دا عيد الربيع بتاعنا"..فا السوفت وير كان متسطب بس اتعمله تحديث..بما انه يوم صوم و لازم يبقى فيه رنجة و بصل و الذي منه..خلوا الأحتفال بالربيع تاني يوم عيد القيامة أو الفصح (يوم الأثنين ...و المصريين مش هايغلبو.

-في الأسلام بعد كدا كان أحتفال المسلمين بصيام عاشوراء الذي قيل انه يوم نجى الله بني اسرائيل من فرعون و جنوده.. و كان العاشر من شهر المحرم ..مش عارف هل تصادف أن يهود بني قينقاع و اليهود تبعهم في يثرب كانوا صايمين يومها و لا دا تم بعد وحي الهي..المهم في ناس بتقول ان العيد ده هو الفصح و ناس بتقول أن دا يوم كيبور بتاع حرب اكتوبر.و الله اعلم.. بس برضو الصوم مستحب مع يوم تاني فبله او بعده مخالفة لليهود.

-بعد كدا حصلت معركة كربلاء في نفس اليوم دا بعد 60 سنة .. في عاشوراء..و قتل الحسين بن علي حفيد الرسول صلى الله عليه و سلم...وكانت مأساه و فاجعة و أنقسمت الأمة بسببها.

- يري الأخوة الشيعة ان صيام عشوراء بدعة و ضلالة و لا يجب الأحتفال و الأحتفاء به .. و عملو نسخة عنيفة جدا لذكرى مقتل الحسين رضي الله عنه!

-دلوقتي في مصر شم النسيم هو ببساطة عيد بييجي فيه الربيع و بناكل فيه رنجه و فسيخ (مش بحبه و بصل.و انتهاء صيام للمسيحيين و تلوين بيض ..و شكولاتة و ارانب وهدايا في الغرب و في عاشورا بناكل بليلة. و محدش فكر ان لولا ان اليوم دا كان عيد كانت الدنيا شكلها بقى ايه!؟

لو حد عاوز يصلح او يضيف حاجة عن اصل يوم عاشوراء يبقى يا ريت!
طبعا لو حد مسيحي أو يهودي يقدر يصلحلي معلوماتي أكون شاكر جدا .. و لو في قدماء مصريين يبقى هايل!

ودمتم..

the clean house painterالنقاش النضيف

2007-04-04T19:18:00.000+02:00

something i did last month and still waiting for rejection hehehe!.. kidding.. well..never heard form the client anyway..may be still thinking!
you think 2 weeks is 2 much? :D

النقاش أو البوهيجي النضيف..
طلع من غير قصد شبه واحد صاحبنا و هو شاب شوية.. ربك يستر و مايفهمنيش غلط !

russian ballerina

2007-03-29T01:10:00.000+02:00

i never got the chance to watch ballet live on a stage.. well i'm trying my best here, this is a part of an illustration for some article about russian film making..it was urgent and i didn't read the article..they needed anything that is a stereotype ..well i thought ballet and kalinka song/dance and balalaika and many others.. anyway... i really wish i knew more..would've researched if i had time.. so no offence for russians .. i really wish i knew more..respect!
well still not totally satisfied of the pose and proportions and some anatomy problems..i'm satisfied of it overall!
so there..my first quick sketch ,then a part of the illustartion..then some details for no good reason haha!
cheers

انا عمري ما رحت حفلة باليه في حياتي!.بس لقيت نفسي برسم راقصة باليه لما طلب مني رسم ليه علاقة بصناعة السينما في روسيا .. كان نفسي يكون عندي وقت أكبر و الاقي معلومات تفيدني لأفكار تانية.. بس اهو اللي حصل !!

الرسم ممكن يكون فيه عيوب بس انا راضي عنها ككل..نظرا ل "زنقة" الوقت!
سعدنا بكم و نرجو أن نكون قد أسعدناكم!

mousegirl ....just one more time

2007-03-27T01:52:00.000+02:00

...it's just another girl- sketch- drawn- only- using- a -mouse- thingie.. for the drawing board..
tools used.. photoshop , mouse, patience, nervousness, lots of work that i don't feel like finishing and obviuosly will miss the deadline so "what the heck" kinna mood!
time : 30 to 40 min
..that's all about it!
is it strange that i enjoy it just because i'm too lazy to scan? :D
i should get a wacom someday!

absurd (محدش فاهم حاجة)

2007-03-25T18:38:00.001+02:00

نفسي أفهم اذا كان مافيش حد الا و بيقول انه أستهبال.. مطلوب مننا ايه بالظبط بكرة!!؟
كل ما اسأل حد يقول هانخرج بدري من الشغل بس ما يمنعش ان ربنا ينتقم منهم!!
و في الغالب مش رايحين الأستفتاء و اللي بيحصل دا حرام واللهّّّ و أشياء من هذا القبيل بس محدش عارف ولا فاهم حاجة غير انه هايبقى في هووم ديليفاري سيرفيس لقوات الأمن دلوقتي.. مش هتحتاج تخرج عشان يتعرفوا عليك!
طب حد فاهم حاجة؟..يفهمني أرجوكم!
هابي نيو تعديل
شوكالاتة جيرسي واكلة الجو
العبث متجسدا في شكل جرندايزاراوي معدني خارق.. ينطلق الذراع الحديدي ليفتك بالأعداء و يدهس المارة و يصرخ دوق فليد "أصله مولع ناري..وأعمللك ال لالي. ساساساساساساسا سيد يا سيد!"
!
اوكي..دي مرشداية قديمة أفتكرتها
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last december's sketchcrawl

2007-03-22T01:55:00.000+02:00

i'm sharing these because i miss sketching in cafes and streets..i'm just so busy nowadays to do so.. i was at "cilantro" cafe in zamalek (om kolthom barnch) :D when i sketched those..i was with a friend to make myself less suspicious ..or ourselves..he was sketching too haha... it's a good tip! well.. i did some quick photoshop coloring! ..and you can always read the notes if you want!
this was for the enrico casarosa's infamous sketchcrawl event...

and this was an attempt to digital inking of one of the sketches above!..was so intense and hurts my hand!..

the last sketchcrawl was 4 days ago and i missed it.. i was really busy... it's always fun to sketch ..i'll try to focus on more things next sketchcrawl event.. i focus more on people..may be i'll try to add some other stuff...
please go read this blog! ... it would be nice if people would do what's said!
and would be great if we could "steal" (pardon me) the idea ..every group for their own people and country!
cheers! :)

2B or not 2B ..you'll be erased!!

2007-03-20T04:40:00.000+02:00

does anyone else like to use "milan"? hehe!

i'm warning ya!

2007-03-18T18:04:00.000+02:00

just a quick sketch while i was thinking of a character .. might turn out to be something totally different
he's supposed to be the good guy but he looks like he's a little problematic :)
the text says "i'm warning ya".. no deep thoughts or symbols haha.. total mind fart!
cheers! :D

le petit prince ...again!

2007-03-17T00:52:00.000+02:00

it has been a year since i made this.. and it's related to special times and occasions i had last year..and that i hope will still be special till reincarnate into a slow turtle who will live longer than i did haha!,
anyway.. this is supposed to be "le petit prince" or "the little prince" , written and originally written by french aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , his words and drawings were so simple and you can relate to it as a kid and as an adult too , it's kind of magical , and i just made my version because of personal reasons, to my rose and planet if you can understand :)
so there is how i did it..step by step.. or just 4 steps :)
there is a slightly bigger one of the final here!

mouse girls

2007-03-09T16:32:00.000+02:00

done for the drawing board jam about drawing girls only using a mouse..
done with photoshop..

same thing (different feelings)

2007-03-09T16:22:00.000+02:00

well i'll started out as a simple brush sketch and i wanted to try out different versions...
which one do you like? (whenever you see this post ,there is no deadline :))

grumpy girl on fire

2007-03-04T19:17:00.000+02:00

that was an old sketch i did about 3 years ago..may be more...i just thought i'd try to color it..

يا ماما!!!!

2007-03-04T18:05:00.000+02:00

الرعب!

L-rahina 2 "the theme song"

2007-02-28T19:58:00.000+02:00

another part...same as the previous .. :)
storytelling is from right to left..as "the hand" says! hehehe
masr masr masr masr masr masr!!!! hey..can any egyptians name these characters? hehe 3arfeen koll dool walla la2?

L-rahina 1

2007-02-28T13:29:00.000+02:00

this is a part of a page i did this week.. it's supposed to be an egyptian movie parody..i won't be surprised if you don't like it that much..haha..
c&c would be great!..just note i never focus on resemblance of the actor as much as i focus on the character they play..anyway..
i'll post another part later..

oh..storytelling is from right to left..as "the hand" says! haha!

القرصان قال أقفوا كويس

2007-02-24T20:06:00.000+02:00

و قطط رومي وديك فيومي

وأنا وأنتم قاعدين نتنأور
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ملحوظة: الولد أبو شنب ده مرعب جدا......دا غير ان القطة كانت مقلقة من المخلوقات البشرية الشريرة..
بس كان في حالة حب في البلاتوه هيهيهيهيهي!

haBBy new eid!!!

2006-12-31T03:16:00.000+02:00

haha
happy new eid
and happy new year!!
it's all confusing!!
anyway.. i know my wishes for both occasions!
i wish soon enough it will come true!!
i don't know about you!
i hope we all get what we want !
Reposted to illustration friday`s topic `stripes`(nov 2011)
More to see on www.metahatem.com

happy holidays

2006-12-25T04:05:00.000+02:00

as a start..i'd like to say happy holidays to everybody!
i wish everything goes peacefully in the new year!
cheers!