Dear compassionate souls, I come to you with a heavy heart, burdened by our story, our lives shattered by the ongoing onslaught of violence in Gaza. Since the beginning of October we have been suffering from terrible conditions and difficulties. Living in Gaza is terrifying during these times, bombs are constantly falling and our lives are in danger. Our house was completely destroyed and we were forced us to move from khanyounis to el mawwasi with minimal personal belongings. I am Ahmed Al-Agha, 25 years old, a graduate of media and mass communication from Al-Azhar University in Gaza. I was a volunteer in the Public Relations Department at the University of Gaza. Due to the difficulty of jobs in the Gaza Strip, I had to register for a professional diploma in culinary arts, but I did not complete it due to the terrible war. After my father passed away in 2021, life pushed me to grow up early and take responsibility for my family, including my mother (samah), my brother(omar)and my three sisters,abla 20years old,yomna17years old and jody 9years old. I dream of owning a small restaurant in order to support my beautiful family. Allow me to introduce you to my family, the very core of my existence: Samah, my great mother, an Arabic language graduate, a strong, courageous, compassionate, and extremely generous mother. She loves her kitchen utensils more than anything else, and becomes very sad if a plate or cup breaks. Her main goal in life is to gain her motherβs approval and the happiness of her children in all possible ways and to do the impossible for them. Omar is an accounting graduate from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. He is an ambitious young man with big dreams. He loves going out with his friends and driving cars. He used to work for Atlas , but at the beginning of November the company's headquarters was completely destroyed, and he is now without work. Abla is an intelligent and educated girl,she loved children and reading novels, My mother depends on her to manage the household. She prepares us the best shawarma fattah in the world and many wonderful desserts. She studies English at Al-Aqsa University and dreams of becoming an English teacher, but her dream will not come true because her university was completely destroyed. Youmna is a wonderful girl, a student in the second year of secondary school. She has a leadership personality. She was a camp leader in the Association for Culture and Free Thought. She has a talent for drawing and participates in art exhibitions in her school and in civil society institutions. She loves drinking Nescafe and listening to music when she draws. She has courses in drawing. The characters: Her dream is to create her own art gallery and to study at the College of Fine Arts. Jody, my little sister, is 9 years old. She is smart and beautiful. She worked and dreams of becoming a model in the future and has the talent of acting. She participated in an advertisement for a bridal chalet and was the heroine of the advertisement. I felt very happy to participate in the advertisement. She suffered from severe psychological disorders at the beginning of the war after she saw several children dispersed as a result of the bombing of the house opposite ours. I try to maintain her psychological state by going together to the seashore and meeting her friends in the nearby tents and playing with them so that she is not distracted by the terrible news and scenes shown on the Internet. , the war has shattered our lives, leaving us without a safe haven or a place to call it home. We are human beings, just like you. We eat, drink, watch Tom and Jerry, love to travel, and love life . The only solution to save my family is to get them out of Gaza by paying an amount of 5,000 US dollars for each of the above-mentioned people to . If the money is available, it can get them out within thirty days. βPlease consider that the above mentioned people are your family. How would you like them to be helped ? Your help, even if it is just one dollar, Im sure that it will never forget your help
Here's the younger Mystery Twin. Eventually, I might draw the entire family together. I still haven't drawn Ford for this website, so I'll have to do that before doing a family drawing. Currently, I've drawn Mabel and Stan.
Edit: So I technically drew Ford. Granted he's a lot smaller and doesn't have gray hair, but it still counts, right? And who's that with him?
Transcript: You can do this forever...
My favorite part of my art process is the color. Color can bring a piece to life, make it feel full. But...
It's hard to do that with a character that's just black and white! Since I've been mostly drawing Siffrin, my usual coloring process has become boring. Though, on the plus side, this makes me want to experiment more. I've been messing around with the tools in my art app (Infinite Painter) during my art process recently. That's how I got this piece. I used one of the charcoal tools for the shadows. I think it's called Glazed Vine. I don't remember what tool I used for the values on the cloak. It might have been the same tool, but I think it was different.
With using absolute black for Siffrin's design and the background, I had to outline the blacks with thin white line art. Though, with the lines being so thin, they were somewhat translucent. Whenever I had to use multiple strokes for a connected line, you could see everytime I lifted up my stylus. I tried to fix this by inking the lines multiple times. That fixed the problem, but that made the lines way too bright. So I looked at one of the lines that didn't need multiple attempts of line art, and I used my color picker on the line to get a light gray. Then I used the light grey to redo the bright white line art, and viola. Problem solved!
I had difficulty figuring out the pose and anatomy for this artwork. I probably should have searched up a reference, but meh. I think it turned out pretty good, anyways. I think I struggled with making the feet look like they're touching the ground, though. I suppose there could be more anatomy mistakes, but hey! Siffrin's cloak does a fantastic job at hiding any mistakes I could've made. Speaking of the cloak, I really like how it turned out! I think I did a good job with the cloak folds.
And that's basically all I have to say about this piece. Though, I want to mention that, for some reason, it's easier for me to draw anatomy and poses on paper than on my phone. I don't really know why that is. Maybe it's because I have more surface to draw on with my sketchbook?
Anyhow, I'll go ahead and add the initial sketch and a screenshot of my artwork in the middle of the coloring process.
I was originally planning on this piece being about Siffrin sacrificing himself for their friends, but I ended up changing that. I also had to change the hands. You can see that the hand holding Siffrin's dagger is wrong.
I added the mid-color screenshot because I just think it looks cool. It kinda reminds me of something that Julia from Drawfee would paint.
Here's the finished product, but I also like the drawing without the effect over it.
So here's this version. I think I like this drawing (both versions) more than my previous Sif drawing. This one has a more unique pose and expression. (My idea was that Siffrin was jumping and about to attack.) I also put more work towards the background. It took me quite a while to draw the clocks. The numbers look a bit cramped, but I do not have the patience to fix that. I used stars as the clock handles to represent that time isn't truly passing. I think I put more work/creativity into this drawing, so I proud of myself for that. I want to add more abstract ideas/concepts in my drawings, so I think this is a good starting point.
Unlike my previous drawing, I drew Frin's cloak correctly. Did I draw the dagger correctly this time? Ha! Nooo. Of course not. Anyhow, I still haven't finished the game, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers. I might be on Tumbler less, in other words.
You can check out my previous Siffrin drawing here.
Just a doodle I did of Mabel. I think she might actually have a sweater like this, but I don't remember for sure.
Check out my other Mabel drawing! The artstyle looks different from this piece because I don't have definate artstyle, yet.
I'm back in the Gravity Falls Fandom, baby! Still haven't read "The Book of Bill", though. This is my first time drawing Stanley, and I'm quite pleased with how this piece turned out. If anyone actually sees this post, feel free to comment about your favorite scene with Stan. My favorite scene is either when Stan fought a pteridactyle (no idea if I spelled that right) or when he fought those zombies.
(This drawing contains spoilers for content revealed by the secret ending of In Stars and Time. You have been warned.)
(You were happy once...aren't you? You were once an optimistic person. You once could laugh freely. Smiles were once true and painless. Lines were once improvised on the spot.)
(Oh, where is that person now? What would they think of you? What would they think of the actor that replaced them? Would they understand? Would they comfort you and show you the light that time stole from you?)
(...Or would they hate you and all that you've done�)
I'm a 16 year old amature artist. I only speak English, currently. I go by she/her or they/them. I support the LGBTQ. My current fandoms are Gravity Falls and The Owl House. I'm not that knowledgeable about the Gaza situation, so I probably won't be able to help too much. I can only reblog posts about it, at the moment.
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