Ahmad Al-Mahir Online

A quick explanation in case my website has become a tad confusing. With this ComicPress theme, I can have a series of comic strips running at the top half of the page with added text accompanying each strip, and have an independent area for more general blog ramblings below it. Of course, instead of comic strips I presently have a run of unrelated sketches, but my primary purpose is to showcase latest artwork without my thoughts getting in the way. That way the audience gets the best of both worlds – if all you care about is the art you can just ogle the top half (there are arrows to navigate across the collection and more links from the top menu) without reading stuff (like this) here at the bottom half. Cool, right?

I’m hoping to update this place with sketches and/or personal commentaries more regularly.  Ideally with more images than words. It’s a constant challenge, but lucky for you I haven’t given up yet! Anyways, there are still a few more minor tweaks to be made but I’m pretty happy with the layout so far.  So, what do you think?

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I signed up for an introductory acting class which started last week. Its actually quite a challenge for me given my typically reserved nature, but I’m open to ways of improving my art. After all, “an animator is an actor with a pencil” so goes the saying, right? Anyway, the course is eight sessions long, two evenings per week. There’s quite a lot of stuff covered each lesson, and we run through a few exercises during those few hours, judging by how the pace has been set so far. I gotta admit I really enjoyed that first lesson, but had to miss the second due to a major virus outbreak at home. Hopefully I’ll be back for the next one on Monday. There’s also quite a bit of homework to be done between classes, and I’m already falling behind. OK that’s it for now. I’m off to pick an animal and write about it in my actor’s journal!

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