final illustration for Rosie's 2d adventure

Rosie2

 

After the huge success of Alice Quinn's ''un palace en enfer'' (published by the author on Amazon Kindle store, best seller 2013,  translated in english...), I'm glad to draw  Rosie Maldonne one more time for the cover of her new adventures...

(work in process)

 

 

new book

The first two books I illustrated are out the print house! I can't wait to see them. Meanwhile, I am working on a new project: a book for very small kids. The hero is a caterpillar (sounds familiar...). The challenge is: I have to finish it in 3 weeks.
Here are the researches for the character:

''my dad is a rocket and my grandad a satellite''

I have finished the illustrations for a new book : ''my dad is a rocket and my grandad a satellite''. It's a funny story about cuttlery arguing about who has the most valuable ancesters. A big saucepan says that his grandpa was a brave drum, the knife is nostalgic when he remembers his past with salah eddin, a one-ear-cup reminds everyone that he once was Van Gogh... the message behind this nice story is of course that our value is the one of our actions and comittments, and it is particularly relevant  here, among palestinians, where one person is often ''judged'' by his family.

 

So here is the title page and a few other pages

 

Success story : Un palace en enfer

Il y a quelque temps, j'ai fait l'illustration de couverture pour le roman ''un palace en enfer'', d'Alice Quinn, en binome avec la talentueuse graphiste  Aurélie Khalidi ( http://orangevif.com/).
(Voici le résultat). Le roman, auto-édité par l'auteur sur Amazon kindle, s'est rapidement retrouvé en train de caracoler en tete des ventes, pour finir best seller 2013 des livres numériques en France!
Le roman vient d'etre racheté par les éditions Michel Lafon

il est disponible dans toutes les librairies France et francophones depuis janvier 2015.

Et voici le lien pour visiter le blog D'Alice Quinn: alice-quinn.com

 

my first book is on its way to the printhouse! here are a few pages

Fuqaati (my bubble) videoclip

Some time ago the palestinien singer Ruba Shamshoum asked me to be the illustrator of her animated videoclip.Since I do very detailed and crafted  drawings, I had no idea if my work would suit animation (at least I knew the basics of animation, which helped), and I was scared to work a lot for a terrible result.
The big challenge was  to create out of a basic screenplay a complete environment and atmosphere, and to have poetic visual ideas fitting her song and personality.
After 6 months of hard work with Ruba and the animator Mike Kardosh, and complicated teamwork  between Dublin and Haifa, here it is:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbyyF4II8Ns


(And we had the good suprise that  more than 20 000 viewers showed up on youtube in 10 days!!!!)