WEEK 15 & 16

#101

Went on an impromptu adventure. 

#102

Colored my Princess of the Sea puppet. Check out the post I made on Azim's work.

#103

In a waiting room, I was scrolling through my apps to delete unnecessary apps. I opened one of them to see if I REALLY needed it or not, and ended up with nice pixel art. Took it to the next level and tried the animation feature in it and decided I'm never deleting it.

#104

#105

I couldn't find a place to park the car, but the Lord had better plans.

#106

Experimented a lil more with pixel art gifs.

#107

Next level was finding a bigger canvas to work on, instead of an iPhone and my annoyingly clumsy fingers. Found an excellent web tool. 

#108

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#110

Started working on the polaroids Reem gave me.

#111

Monumnet Valley is one of the greatest smartphone games.

#112

Long awful day resulted in visiting the Corniche one more time for fresh air and solitude.

#113

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WEEK 14 - 2016

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#100

WEEK 13 - 2016

#87 - Perspective

Learned a little about perspective via a youtube video. 

#88 - Postcards

Drew and sent a couple of postcards

#89 - Image Macro

#90 - Ink

A trick I learned is to fill an aquabrush with ink. Definitely feels better than dipping a brush in ink and drawing.

#91 - Gamal's Logo

Worked on a logo for Gamal's project, and I'm very pleased with it.

#92 - Undertale

This game is slowly killing me

#93

Tea + fresh mint after a huge lunch

WEEK 12 - 2016

Here's an album I have pinned in my browser for the past week, after revisiting my old music.

#80 - Image Macro

Brought to you by Voltaren MENA.

#81 - Huntress Wizard

I've watched this episode a couple of times already, and couldn't get it out of my mind. Felt myself identifying with both Finn's longing & the Huntress wizard detachment. Grateful for Adventure time, always.

#82 - Screen Capture

From undertale. 

#83 - Sikka Art, Dubai

Roadtripping with friends is proving to be one of the greatest blessings this year. 

#84 - Abu Dhabi

If I were to sum up Abu Dhabi vibes in a photo, this would be it.

#85 - Plants bursting out of humans

Whilst cleaning, I found a piece of paper that said, "Idea: plants bursting out of humans", which lead to this. 

#86 (ii)

Normal things that terrify me, going up/down parkings, bridges etc. It's something about the car existing diagonally and not on a straight ground that seriously gets to me.

#86 (i)

A beacon of the best, cheapest and cleanest shawarmas in the city. Yes, a Swedish furniture shop has the best shawarmas I've ever had.

WEEK 11 - 2016

#73

found salwa al mutairi's icon, and it subconciously bullies me into sorting out my blackhole folder

#74

a work in progress

#75

image macro

#76

i never took a photo of burj khalifa because it always seemed redundant. very pleased with this one // 35mm

#77

part of an excellent graphic novel

#78

"this could be us, but you're a meninist"

#79

the search for plants in google maps continues

WEEK 9 - 2016

Last week wasn't about anything specific. I had a lot of errands to run, so I mainly took photos of my surroundings, pups & family.

#59

this is a book that stood out in a low key stationary store. 

#60

i ugly cry every time i'm near them

#61

in musaffah

#62

chimche night by @diplomantiq was lit.

#63

exciting news (related to @jaffatelaqlam) ahead!

#64

i've been craving couscous for months, and my mother finally felt sorry for me and taught me how to make it. it was 100% my favorite meal this year.

#65

spend a lot of time with grandpa, and the dogs on saturday. grandpa's health keeps getting weaker, and sometimes he doesn't recognize me but his face lights up when he sees these pups. 

WEEK 8 - 2016

This week was all about exploring the lazy (or got no time for this) side of pixel art. Through photoshop, and messing with images' sizes, I created pixelated version of these images (some 35 mm scans & the rest taken with an iPhone). I'm going through these and I notice some mistakes, that I can definitely fix. For the sake of rawness and giving each day it's piece, I'm keeping them here.

Nonetheless, my favorites are 55 & 56. 

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56

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58

WEEK 7 - 2016

This week was interesting because I literally didn't leave the house and barely left my room.

45

Less than 2 mins sketch whilst waiting outside.

46

"Hi human. Do you like punk rock? We're all about the punk rock life. No water, only tears"

47

Broken 35 mm photograph of Khalid (brilliant human), for his birthday.

48 (i)

Gazing with disguised horror

48 (ii)

The Demon King
Sudden sharp pain
Unable to move

49

I saw this in Reem's facebook, and ended up dreaming about it. Tried to recreate it. Need someone to teach me about shadows, highlights and how light does that thing where it gives photos life? 

50

I decided to draw part of my room in less than 8 mins. It didn't have to be perfect (obviously), but it was more of a practice for when I want to draw quick sketches outside the house. The perspective is 100% inaccurate. 

51

Inspired by my habibi's tweet of a cute date idea.

WEEK 5 & 6 - 2016

The past couple of weeks, I participated in a festival that took away all my time & energy. The good thing about the festival, wasn't only the fact that I got to teach humans some cool art things, but also getting to learn so much about human behaviour in general. Below are snippets of things I wrote on my break or when I got to work early:

• Part of this new year new me shit was to say yes more often & I think I said yes way too many times.
• At some point, I needed someone to write a poem about the smiles two strangers give each other when they don't understand each others languages. how they use their hands by picking up and pointing at things, their heads to nod yes etc. These two weeks, I was grateful for raw human interactions. 
• Our dog had 5 pups and every time I think about this lil family, I cry.
• My best friends were: sleeping pills, caffeine pills & moov cream. 
• One of the men I work with was too shy to call me by my name, so he just screamed "AGOOLICH".
• I realized that its necessary to know nice words in other languages. It makes people feel warm. I used 2 of the Japanese words that I could remember with some of the Japanese tourists & they were over the moon. The mother was all 'Whoa, shokran shokran'. 
• I read an arabic children's book that was perfect for kids to understand that issok not to be super social & enjoy solitude. I read another one that was about not caring what other people thought of you as long as you were aught with who you are.
• The places the festival took place was at the Cultural Foundation, the place that made me the person I am now.

WEEK 4 - 2016

Last week, I took my film cameras everywhere and took photos of everything. Sadly, 2 rolls didn't develop (B&W) so it messed up my weekly count. That being said, I'm including photos taken last week and they will be my week 4 entry.

DAYS 22 - 30 

WEEK 3 - 2016

 I found a book I owned for 10 years, and I'm just glad I kept it this long. I remember buying this from Jarir Bookstore (back when they had good books), and it was during Eid. Every Eid, some time was dedicated for me to buy books from Jarir with the dirhams I managed to collect. 

This week started with simple blackout poetry and escalated to something I didn't see coming. Here's a series of trippy af flash fiction. I think this is a great way to express myself in words, since I tried writing poetry/short stories and it just couldn't work out. I also think it's a nice thought, that many poems can be produced by several people if they were given the same page to blackout. 

DAY #15

being a spoof
when something uncanny comes along
one of those genuine cases
deep at one end
shallow at the other
everything's quite informal.
personally dangerous sometimes
an enormous shark
had bitten off the end
his powerful jaws
vanished
stolen by another shark
never shall i forget,
this fearful monster

DAY #16

keeping his promise
underneath his handkerchief
i see an old scar
"be quiet, and i'll tell you" he said.
"we exchanged drops of blood,
we made a sacred pledge. 
whoever died first, confiscated the knives"

DAY #17

promise the visitor what he want

DAY #18

destiny beheld her with eyes wide open, like a child's

DAY #19

all at once
a strangled cry

DAY #20

THE HOST

possible accidents
fallen into a hollow
a false step cost him
agony of mind

shouting in the silence of the night
he made his preperations
inspected throughly
then he waited.
the steady ticking of the clock
sounded like the beating of a heart
he shivered.
feeling chilled and nervous
suddenly,
the vague light seemed to arise
and diffuse itself in space.
like a hunter, searching for tracks
saying, "seek, old man, seek"

DAY #21

the secret shared was afraid of poop. 
do you think i should have the men do anything? 
i suppose the end of the world will be something like that.
i don't blame anybody, 
only sincere unworthy existence
a heavy knock
upon my thoughts and upon my feelings
i cried through the door
accompanied by a faint smile of regret
i was not wholly alone

WEEK 2 - 2016

Week 2 was dedicated to marbling and experimenting with all the different ways it can be accomplished. There were a lot of failed attempts, pieces I wasn't happy with and nice accidents, I included everything because why not.

These were tests I made last year, when I had an exam I didn't want to study for. They also happen to be my introduction to marbling. My sister was nice enough to let me borrow her nail polish, and even though I bought some cheap ones for this, it didn't work. I guess its a hit-and-miss with the nail polish technique. 

These two were created using a kit I bought. The ink is very vibrant, and the colors are very nice. This week was all about experimenting with different methods, and on different canvases/paper.

DAY #8

On canvas // Used the korean marbling kit, I bought from etsy. These were great, but they took ages to dry. The colors are incredible though, and they can be used on water.

DAY #9

On post-it

DAY #10

On watercolor paper

DAY #11

On a brown envelope

DAY #12

On newsprint

DAY #13

On a brown envelope

DAY #14

On watercolor paper

I see these working in future collages, envelope art, and as bookmarks. Will have to explore marbling using other techniques. However, If there's one thing I learned this week, it would be my lack of imagination when it comes to generating different colors or imaging which colors go well with each other. Will have to study colors, I suppose.

WEEK 1 - 2016

I decided to start my 366 days of creative projects/photographs with recycling old blurry polaroids. I started drawing on them, but then realized I can add a little more by adding glitter. 

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