Fablamaca değişti/has changed...

English? To the bottom please…

Pek değerli fabırcıklar.

Fablamaca uzun zamandır sessizdi ancak bu sessizliği büyük oranda İngiltere’den Türkiye’ye taşınma ve blogspot’un Türkiye’de saçma sapan bir nedenle engellenmesine bağlıydı.

Bu ve bazı diğer sebeplerden ötürü Fablamaca değişti. Dilerseniz metamorfoz geçirdi. 3’e, 4’e bölündü, bölünmeye de devam edecek.

Öncelikle Fablamaca Blogspot’dan, Tumblr’a geçiş yaptı:

http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/

Bu geçiş esnasında fotoğrafçılık merakı kendine ayrı bir yer edindi:

http://fabfotocekiyor.tumblr.com/

Bu genel fotoğraf blogunun yanı sıra bir de sadece dikey panoramalar için vertirama açıldı:

http://vertiramic.tumblr.com/

Son olarak da (şimdilik) dijital ve geleneksel çizim işleri de ayrı eve çıktı:

http://fabresimyapiyor.tumblr.com/

Şimdilik durum böyle. http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/ ana blog olarak kalıp, diğer bloglara abilik yapacak, onların yayınladıklarını da kendi üzerinde yayınlayarak size duyurmaya çalışacaktır.

Bunun üstüne yenileri de gelebilir ama http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/ u izlediğiniz sürece, hepsinden haberiniz olacak.

İşte böyle. İyi seyirler madem!

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My dearest dear fabstriks!

Fablamaca was in a deep, deep silence for a long time but this was completely the result of moving from UK to Turkey and also the ridiculous ban that Blogspot has from Turkish goverment!

Related to this and some other reasons, Fablamaca changed. Went through a metamorphosis, if you like. Divided to 3, 4 and it will continue to do so.

First of all, Fablamaca switched from Blogspot to Tumblr:

http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/

During this transition photography had a new place:

http://fabfotocekiyor.tumblr.com/

Next to this general photography blog, also another blog was opened for vertical panoramas, vertiramic:

http://vertiramic.tumblr.com/

At last (for now) for digital and traditional drawings another place was hired:

http://fabresimyapiyor.tumblr.com/

This is the situation for now. http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/ will be the main blog and act like a big brother to the others, publish the others’ posts, etc.

There might be more soon but as long as you follow http://fablamaca.tumblr.com/, you will know.

That’s it. Enjoy then.

Photo Challenge No: 3 - Warsaw at Night

Photo Challege No: 2 - Christmas Signs just concluded yet I'm at the presence of you with a new challenge!

On our holiday I didn't get lazy and Kasia organized a challenge for me with her good friend (and a damn good photographer) Łukasz. (It is pronounced "Wukash".)

As we are spending our 2 weeks holiday in Warsaw and partially because Łukasz is very busy working during the day, we chose a topic for night photography. Fablamaca proudly presents: Warsaw at Night!

Please vote for one or more photographs. As you know, we expect you to choose the best photograph representing the topic. In this case, best night photograph for Warsaw. 

The photographs are anonymous until the end of the challenge, as you know.

Enough words. Here are the candidates:

PHOTO CHALLENGE NO: 3 - WARSAW AT NIGHT

(01) Stalin's Gift

(02) Speed of Light

(03) Lift Off

(04) Untitled

(05) The New World Street 180°

(06) Warsaw 180°: The Point of View

Please vote for the best photograph(s) for you. The vote box is located in its regular place, top rigth corner of the page. 

Thanks for watching and the votes;

Fab

Special thanks: Łukasz for his hospitality and contribution.

Photo Challenge No: 2 - Christmas Signs is Concluded

Photo Challenge No: 2 - Christmas Signs is concluded. After your votes, photographs were arranged as following:

1st Place - (1) Christmas Shopping by fab - 9/24 votes
2nd Place - (3) Christmas Me, Christmas You by fab - 7/24 votes
3rd Place - (2) Choosing the Right Ornament by fab - 5/24 votes
4th Place - (6) Christmas Lights by kash- 3/24 votes

Here is the winner:

(1) Christmas Shopping

Thank you very much for your votes;
fab

Special thanks to Kash for her participation.

Illustration Friday - Resolutions

Illustration Friday is asking me to illustrate my resolutions for 2011 this week. So I did one of them. This has been in the list of resolutions for few years, it is the first one to come to mind. 

This drawing is also special because it is first proper drawing with my new digital drawing tablet which is a Christmas gift from Kasia. Thanks babe! xxx

So there we go. My resolution for 2011 in the form of illustration:

6 packs

Yes, I want one of this for 2011. Or six of those. Or at least some of them. 

For your information it is copied from a photograph as an exercise. This the picture it was copied from:

http://www.sixpackabs24.com/images/how-to-get-six-pack-abs.jpg

Thanks for watching;

fab

Illustration Friday - Mail

This week Illustration Friday is seeking for illustrations around the topic "Mail".

Although "mail" has a very large meaning, first thing came to my mind was the poor envelopes which carries the precious letters in themselves,  shiled themselves to protect them, go from one hand to another until reaching the destination and at the end just to be murdered gruesomely!

I want to dedicate this post to all envelopes, who served their owner with their lives.

For all envelopes:

an envelope's tragedy

Thanks for watching;

fab

Photo Challenge No: 2 - Christmas Signs

It's been a while since I started publishing Photo Challenges yet I published only one. It doesn't mean that we didn't carry on challenging ourselves. Oh yes, we did! I just didn't have time to publish them but they will all come. 

I'm going to share our very last challenge from 09.December.2010. When we went to London for my visa application, Kasia challenged me for "Christmas Signs". Any sight of this season, little pretty things come along with Christmas. I said, bring it on! 

So we spent a marvelous day out and took some pictures. Again they are open for your votes. You will decide which photograph has what it takes. Choose the best photograph which brings you the Christmas atmosphere the most. 

The photographs will be anonymous until the end of the poll. The poll is at the top right corner of the page. Vote for the number of the photo you like.

Here they are:

PHOTO CHALLENGE NO: 2 - CHRISTMAS SIGNS

(1) Christmas Shopping

(2) Choosing the Right Ornament

(3) Christmas Me, Christmas You

(4) Barbie Wonderland

(5) Sweet Display

(6) Christmas Lights

Thank you for voting;

fab & kash

fotoGra - Light

I'm starting to take part in a new kind of challenge: fotoGra!

Like every useful stuff, I found this thanks to Kasiko and it comes from this website:

http://art-piaskownica.blogspot.com/

They also do other challenges like fotolift (which you need to set the same conditions given and take a picture of it) so you better have a look!

This fotoGra's topic is "light". I have few pictures which I couldn't decide which one is my favourite, so I'll publish them all. They are all from our last visit to Turkey with Kash.

Here we go!

Lights from Bagdat Avenue/Istanbul

Lights from Tophane/Istanbul

Light from Ortakoy/Istanbul

Light from Findikli/Istanbul

Thanks for watching;

fab

Illustration Friday - Spent

Last week's topic at Illustration Friday was "spent". It gave me the idea of piggy bank but then this idea let me somewhere else and I ended up with the drawing below. It is also a bit late as the new topic "afterwards" came along but anyway, here I am!

The message in the drawing is in Turkish as it is a message more towards Turkish and Muslim worlds. It's nothing serious, more like a innocent joke. It asks "Does the money which come from the piggy bank legitimate?". It is an allusion to the issue of eating porke. As you know it is not allowed in Muslim culture.

That's it!

Piggy Bank

Thanks for watching;
fab

Özlem

I accepted my friend Ozlem's challenge and against her marvelous illustration of me, I illustrated her!

First I looked for tutorials, cartoon style drawings etc. Challenge was big!

But then I thought "why look for another style?" I have my own style which was abandoned for a very long time. It might not reflect the reality most of the time, still, this style is something I can call "mine"!

I hope Ozlem appreciates too! 

özlem

Thanks for watching;

fab

PS: Ozlem does brilliant illustrations and lomography. You better check her out:

http://photopaint.tumblr.com/

http://paintell.tumblr.com/

http://www.miscuit.com/

Illustration Friday - Racing

Illustration Friday is asking us to illustrate "racing" this week. So I did!

Racing

I hope you liked it.

Also I followed a tutorial in order to create this illustration. I would like to thank him as well and maybe you can find it useful:



Thanks for watching;
fab

Illustration Friday - Spooky

This week Illustration Friday requires illustrations around the topic "Spooky" and I have just the scene in my archive!

This drawing was a poster for our Halloween Costume Party last year. It was a great party! I was Incredible Hulk!

Less talk, more illustration. There it is:

Conflict in the Halloween Village

And there is the poster itself:

Halloween Costume Party

 Thanks for watching;

fab

Illustration Friday - Transportation

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Transportation". I tried to think out of the box and there was an umbrella to use, so, with Kasiko's help I came up with this drawing. 


A little girl with a big imagination is travelling across the London sky at night with her red umbrella and red dress... Where is she going? Maybe to meet Harry Potter before he catches his train to Hogwarts from King's Cross, maybe somewhere else you know.


Enjoy!

girl with the red umbrella, ela, ela

Thanks for watching;

fab

I drew it! Yes, I did!

It's been such a long time!

It was few weeks ago, I started. The topic was "immovable" on Illustration Friday. I had a great idea and started drawing but time flies by like sand in our hands, through our fingers. I apologize from everyone but first from myself for being such a lazy bone! Time never stops and it never will. If we don't make the most of it, it is wasted. I hate wasting!

But I believe I didn't do too badly. At least I finished what I started. And now I am sharing with you.

For Illustration Friday, for the topic "immovable", I present, THE AVATAR AANG!

It was drawn by me, completely digitally on photoshop, using mouse and several photoshop tools and by refering several tutorials such as how to draw a rock, how to draw aang etc. but nothing is copied. For the tutorials, I'd like to thank to DragoArt.com.

So, that's it. I know some of you are complaining that I used to write and publish more but here is the deal. Drawing or painting takes a lot more time and energy and at the end you end up with a single drawing instead of pages of writing. It looks less but not less valuable. I am merely trying new things. That's a good thing!

Thanks for watching and see you soon;

fab

Illustration Friday - Star Gazing

Another week, another challenge. This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Star gazing". 

Luckily, what I painted last week is a perfect fit for this week's topic too! But then it wouldn't be a challenge, would it? So I decided to try myself on the digital side. I illustrated the same image, this time on my laptop. Here we go!

You can compare with the hand painting version, which is my favorite and can be found in the previous post of last week (scroll down!).

Thanks for watching!

fab

Illustration Friday - Caged

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Caged".

I thought of drawing a cage or something similar in the first place but after spending some time on the idea, I managed to jump out of the box realized you don't really need a cage to be caged. You might get stuck anywhere, any time and it is not necessarily behind the bars. It might be your work, your school, your city, your country and even your planet. So this was the starting point of my inspiration and first I wanted to draw a human stuck on earth beneath colourful sky but then I looked further in the sky and I saw a little alien, who was stuck on an ugly, smelly planet and I promised him that I would share his story with you so if anyone has a space shuttle, they would know this cute little alien is waiting to be rescued.

There is my little friend, caged by his planet.

I really like this painting and Kasia says I'm getting better at this.

I hope you enjoyed.

See you another week;
fab

Illustration Friday - Diary

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Diary". 

This illustration is a first for many aspects. First time I illustrated literally by hand, using pencil for Illustration Friday. First time I used mixed media for an illustration: Sketching, photography and digital manipulation. Another first (and the most important) is this is my first time inking and colouring in in photoshop and I absolutely loved it! It is easier than I though. I found some good tutorials on youtube and just followed the pattern. The result is more than satisfactory! I wanted to learn this tecnique for a long time and thanks to Kasia I gave it a go and after 5-6 days of trying, I have my first digital colouring example. 

I hope you like it too. Please don't hesitate to leave a comment. There is my illustration for this week's topic: Diary

Thanks for watching!

Notes:

1. I borrowed the background pattern from the web. Googled it and it was on the first page. I hope I don't get myself in any trouble. =) Thanks guys! There is the website:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3126/3137643630_1e7f000c4b.jpg

2. As I said I watched some tutorials on youtube. If you're interested, there are some links for you as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVy1xGJbQM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q32TYchrC4

Illustration Friday - Satellite

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Satellite". I didn't have time to do any fresh illustrations but I didn't want to miss out this chance to post some of my old drawings as I'm very much a "moon person" and I love the following drawings.

Here they are:

This one was illustrated for a short story of mine which was inspired after an injury I had back in 2005. The original story is in the following link but it is in Turkish...

 http://fablamaca.blogspot.com/2007/12/karanlk-sokak.html

Following illustrations are from the same short story I wrote in 2008 and it was inspired by one of my dreams (maybe a nightmare) about the bad things happening in my country (Turkey) and a lady was telling me it was about to be too late... Again you can visit following the link to see the original story but it is in Turkish...


http://fablamaca.blogspot.com/2008/05/ayn-anda-benim-lkemde.html

So that's it for this week's illustraions.

Thanks for watching!

Fablamaca T-shirts Are Ready!

Finally! Where is my 10.000th visitor?!

The t-shirts that I promised for my loyal readers are finally ready. You might ask why I say "t-shirts" because the promised prize was for the 10.000th visitor only. I changed my mind. There was a comment for the post that I was looking for the 10.000th visitor, asking: 

Eddie Ferrero said... "Anything for being the 10,001st visitor Fatih? Also, do you know Gevende?"

Eddie is a good friend of mine and also my first "Couch Surfing Host". It really touched me when he asked "anything for being the 10.001st" and I thought "why not?" He will be getting a t-shirt as well as Malika the 10.000th visitor. But I don't know about Gevende, Eddie. What does Gevende mean?!

Are you curious about the t-shirts? I thought so! Thanks to Kasia (http://worqshop.blogspot.com/) and her brilliant idea, we took lovely pictures of them:

Malika! Eddie! If I can get the addresses, t-shirts are ready to be posted, waiting for their owners. 

The t-shirts are desinged and produced completely by me. Primark wanted to be the sponsor for the garments, so I didn't refuse them. 

As you see my dear readers. Be proud of this privilege of being a reader of Fablamaca and who knows, you might be rewarded as well!

Thanks for watching;

fab

Illustration Friday - Paisley

This week's topic at Illustration Friday is "Paisley". Lovely and well known pattern. So I did my own design but I can't say that it's a great job. It was much better before the "green" mistake though. I'm still new in painting... 

Anyway, enjoy.

Thanks for watching;

fab

Daha Karpuz Keseceğidik!

Fablamaca, Mothandmoth'a konuk oldu!

Fab olarak geçtiğimiz hafta değerli arkadaşım Muammer'in zevkle izlediğimiz bloğu mothandmoth.blogspot.com'a konuk yazar olarak davet edilmiştim ve sağolsun kendisi benim zırvalarımı yayınlamaya değer görmüş. Mothandmoth'a konuk olmak Fablamaca ailesi için bir onurdur. "Körler, sağırlar, birbirilerini ağırlar" türü bir kültür alışverişi işte.

Fablamaca üyesi olan herkes aşağıdaki linke tıklayarak üye adı ve şifrelerini girerek yazıyı okuyabilecekler...

O ne bee?! Hemen de inanıyosunuz he! Yazı burada olmasa da halen bizim yazımızdır. Hemen gidip okuyabilirsiniz:

http://mothandmoth.blogspot.com/2010/06/son-4-dunya-kupas-ben-ve-fifa-99.html

Gitmişken eliniz boş dönmeyin. Mothandmoth'da biraz gezinin. Sonuçta misafirliğe gidiyoruz. Bunların hepsi Google Analytics'de çıkıyo. Sonra Muammer bana "bak senden gelen bağlantılar sayfayı 8 saniye içinde terketmiş, senin okuyucu kitlesi fotoğraflara bakıp kapatıyo" diye gelmesin. Beni rezil etmeyin! Hem zaten benim yazdıklarımı okuduktan sonra oradakileri hayli hayli okursunuz diye tahmin ediyorum. Aklı başında, düzgün yazılar. Biz ailecek takip ediyoruz. Dileyenlere bir link de burada:

http://mothandmoth.blogspot.com/

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What about my English readers? My readers who can read English but who are not necessarilly English but more than welcome even though they are English.

Probably you're wondering what the heck is going on on Fablamaca. Let me tell you. I was invited as a guest writer in a brilliant blog (http://mothandmoth.blogspot.com/) and my short story was published there just yesterday. So I was letting you guys know that you could go and read at this address:

http://mothandmoth.blogspot.com/2010/06/son-4-dunya-kupas-ben-ve-fifa-99.html

But there is one thing I need to warn you about: This story is in Turkish...

Anyway, I didn't forget about you. You didn't come all this way for nothing. I have something to entertain you as well:

See! I said that I had entertainment for you. I believe it also helps you to appreciate my poor English...

Thanks for coming.

Have fun,

it's the only way;

fab