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/