New Work: Mira Bai

The moon, stars, cats and evil eyes are all part of Mira's obsessions and interests. Something about this combination sounds exciting and mysterious. Just like her dreamy eyes... 

 

Sketching Time

This piece was sketched for a fashion illustration competition a few months back. Unfortunately I wasn't short-listed but I absolutely love it. I wanted to experiment with my drawing and take the image a step further. So instead of just drawing a skinny figure wearing clothes I came up with a concept (flying girls-I always find myself drawing my figures expressing some kind of movement) and for the figures I made them more curvy in some places, played around with size and scale. I used pencil for this as I wanted to create a 'raw' image. The fine details on the hair and dresses definitely adds to the overall interest and creates more movement throughout the piece. I actually found it very therapeutic creating those patterns!  The dresses are from two of my favourite designers - Herve Leger and Balmain  both AW2010 collection.

New Work: Wonder Woman & Superman

Just completed this latest commission for a couple who wanted to be superman and wonder woman flying over Dubai's Burj Khalifa illustrations printed on canvas. Will post a few interior shots as soon as I receive them!

Illustrating For Charity

Wow! I didn't realize I've been away for so long! Although I've had a busy couple of days I managed to design a few Christmas treats...

'All I Want For Christmas' is a personal charity project to promote charitable donations and social responsibility. It stems out of a personal desire to combine my creative talent with my strong desire to give back by helping charities accomplish their goals. Art for charity will become a monthly activity on my page and I hope that you will be part of it. More details to follow in 2011 but in the meantime please check out the images below for more info about the products. Enjoy!

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All images are property of Samar Sadik illustrations
and may not be used without permission

All images are property of Samar Sadik illustrations
and may not be used without permission

In the Press!

Very excited as my work is being featured in this month's EMIRATES HOME magazine, many many thanks  Penny McCormick, the editor and the rest of the EH team. I love Emirates Home, not only because it was my baby for four years but also because it really has it all from rich content, to clean and well designed layouts, to lots of great interior photography and an overall unique personality. Don't miss this Christmas issue. You will be inspired...Happy reading for now and stay tuned for my next post about my featured festive illustrations!

Emirate Home December 2010

On Penny's favourite list

So Now Christmas feature

Expert advice from the EH team

A Christmas Doodle

Whenever I have a notebook and a pen with me, I cannot help but doodle away. And I never know what I end up with...in this case a couple of francophile women in Christmas frocks and a little miss fluffy sporting a cool collections of  fashionable over-sized bow ties. I like bow-ties by the way. You will see a lot of them in my future drawings...So all this happened one day when I was out with a good friend of mine while listening to our conversation. Yes, I know what you're thinking....amazing at multi-tasking!  ; ) Yalla, enjoy my friends!

Happy UAE National Day!

Time to show off that red, green, white and black!And my Dubai Doll's are doing just that..! Have a fun long weekend my friends!

Dubai Dolls for UAE National Day