May

introducing our boxer: May

Ketabna1

Back in 2011 I was lucky to be a part of this wonderful group (and we still have potential work together all the time) : https://www.facebook.com/ketabna

I’ll post more of the illustrations i did for them every now and then

A Thirsty monkey in the wild

 something I did last year ..a thirsty monkey looking for water …

Wild

This was done a couple of years ago...the girl went into the wild and encountered some strange adventures with snow mice :)

some progress...some

 for those who asked..first I read the story.. then sketch..let it out..decide…......(continued under the image below)

then you design your scene and render it..TaDAAA…

Lamest instructions ever :D but hope you enjoyed

A boy and a girl

There will be more on these later ...... :)
let me know what you think of them

The guest of Himdan

Another story I did a while back to Majid magazine...
This is about a mischievous neighbour and a mysterious guest who challenges the goodness of Himdan who wins at the end of course haha..

solitude by the sunset..

these were done last week for Majid magazine...I'll try to post everyday or every other day..so stay tuned :)

Working on this made me think of giving some time with myself contemplating and reflecting..things are just happening and I'm a slow processor sometimes..it drains me sometimes..not always though..i crave people also :)...later :)

Cookies for Soad..

illustrations form a story ..

I was trying something with the reflection on the wet streets and on the multi-patterns on the girl’s outfit…I hope it was not much :)

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Hatem Aly

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Swim(update)

colours in the mind

the story is about a blind girl and her struggle to get back to swimming >>the illustration portrays the girl trying to remember the sense of colours..
This was made last year yet I am making it a contribution to illustration Friday's topic this week "Swim" 

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Now this one is an update to the same topic.. description below : 

This is from a story featured on Driver Dan's Story Train ..
""I had the pleasure of illustrating 2 stories to be told on the TV program  Driver Dan's Story Train and just recently they were aired for the first time on BBC cbeebies in the UK.""

there is a special post on this..posted at the time of the broadcast..
Here: Check it out if you're interested :)

http://metahatem.blogspot.ca/2012/08/driver-dans-story-train.html

hope you like :)

Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day in Egypt today..among many other countries...
This picture features an event of a reading session to a book I had fun illustrating ..you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Wazifat-Mama-Mamas-Arabic-Edition/dp/9948157761

Kalimat Publishing is organizing this at Book Munch :)
I wish I could be there :)

Happy Mother’s day to all mothers :):)

For the love of calligraphy ...

illustrations from a story I worked on recently..it’s about a boy whom his art teacher encourage him with calligraphy and drawing patterns..I like stories that have a sort of a personal passion to them and that can be a key to sanity through imagination :)

Tayoob & Tayooch

Intoducing: Tayoob & Tayooch...

these are 2 twins that are not alike in behaviour at all..as you can see one is on the wild side and the other is a little on the geeky side ..well let's say they both have there goods and bads...

These 2 characters -among others- are presented weekly in Majid Magazine..and obviously illustrated by me...

I'll post more of that later..but for now I will present this sequence showing a rare appearance of Tayooch wearing eye glasses...you can see his brother (and family) quite surprised!..and that's just to make it (of course) illegible to be a contribution to illustration Friday's "Eye glasses" topic of the week :)

well...here is some of Tayoob as well..he's always wearing these thin eye glasses anyway :)..so let's give him some love...

Eye Glasses

This is a character sketch from a book I was working on..so you could consider this a teaser yet it's also a contribution to illustration Friday's topic of the week : Eye Glasses
I thought it would be appropriate :)
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illustration Friday : Storm

Here is a form of storm starting...sort of.. :)
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Another Majid magazine cover

I did another cover for this week's issue of Majid Magazine :)

Illustration Friday: Wings

my contribution to the latest IF topic..Wings..there is not much wings there but there is a bat and a dove-ish kind of a bird..and they are all flying..so you could say invisible wings? :)

Illustration Friday: Myth

my contribution to the latest IF topic...and it fits the mood too :)