Designing for Business

Fashion designing for business is a hard work. It’s an accumulative work season after season. The preparations for the work is much more than the illustration or production parts. Before having enough experience in handling a fashion business, I thought that the most difficult part that needs to be tackled was the designing and illustrating…

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From Sketches to Reality

Many designers long for the moment they see their sketch and digital designs come to life. Especially when it comes to a product design. This time I’m showing you my own sketch that turned into a real product. And I will share with you the process with words and some photos to align it all…

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Back to Fashion Illustrating and Recording!

You may have noticed how I’ve been recording less the past few months as well as sketch fashion illustrations. But I’m finally back to my work! I truly miss recording my painting process so I recorded a new video for you guys! If you’re wondering why I record them, it’s to show you the way…

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Copic Markers and Acrylics in Fashion Illustrations

I used to paint my illustrations with comic markers (especially when I first knew about them) before using acrylics and watercolors. Whenever I explore a new painting technique or new paint/marker, I notice how the final result for my illustrations change as a result. Since I used to daily draw and paint, I don’t always…

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Fashion Illustration with Copic Markers

It’s been a while since I used copic markers for my fashion drawings. I was so fascinated by the metallic and pearl pigments which made me divert to acrylics and watercolors. But yesterday, as I looked at my fashion drawing of Demi Lovato at the VMAs wearing Zuhair Murad’s black lace bodysuit, I thought why…

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Art Commission

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’m doing a special art commission offer before the end of Ramadan where I’ll draw your outfit and as an optional choice I can even illustrate a light background like my latest fashion illustrations. If you wish to know more about the price, send me an email and we can discuss…

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Islamic Patterns & Tezhib

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Beginning 2015 I joined Turkish illumination/gilding course with my wonderful teacher Dilara Yarci. It simply means painting with gold. This requires special gold ink and technique to paint old Ottoman motifs. The complication of the process lies in drawing the motifs first, then at painting them. And one of the…

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30 digital illustrations for Instagram

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Last month I decided to challenge myself on Instagram. Being a graphic designer I thought of designing new illustrations or designs for my social media platforms. After thinking about it I came up with a simple idea of uploading a character design daily for a whole month. It’s both a…

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Fashion Painting with Acrylics

Follow my blog with Bloglovin This is a 1min clip of my latest fashion painting video. since it’s a time-lapse video I uploaded it in full on my Youtube channel: Instagram: Anwaar.saleh Twitter: Anwaar_saleh Snapchat: Artistakw

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Painting Process Video

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’m posting a short painting process video this time. I didn’t like my painting on this one so I decided to cut the recording. But I’ll be back with a better one in the future.  

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