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Ever wondered what pumpkin soup was really made of?

It's been a while since I illustrated anything for myself, I got this idea while drinking soup and well obviously it's inspired by the halloween season and I mainly illustrated it for deviantart because I have many western followers there. I think I'm happy with the way it turned out. I spent a little over 6 hours, mainly because I didn't have a clear vision in my head, just the concept so all the elements pretty much came in while I was working on it. I believe my skills in illustrating especially when it comes to this style have improved alot during the past year mainly due to the face that i've been illustrating for work alot (Renna mobile account). I've always prefered this style of illustrations over my more 'painted' ones which I also enjoy but this happens to be more 'Me' than the other because the subject matter is usually darker with a twisted sense of humor which well pretty much how I am most of the time anyway.

Enjoy.

I have noticed that we as Omanis tend to complain about every little thing that happens here in the country, What's available, what isn't, what we want, what we don't. I must confess that I myself tend to fall into that hole every now and then, but thinking about it, I believe that we are simply not content, mainly the citizens of Muscat because we are starting to see what is out there in other countries, what we are lacking in and the fact that the country, despite it actually growing which is something no one can deny, but it is indeed growing very very slowly. Our eyes are open now that the internet is at the access of practically everyone and we can actually see and witness what's happening in the world, how people are actually living life and dare I say even enjoying it which is probably a foreign concept to most Omanis unfortunately because we don't really have much access to alot of entertainment be it a proper sport center? sport events? musical events? a proper theme park? Having said that I do believe that we do complain way too much and that perhaps sometimes it's necessary to take a step back and think about how much work gets put into everything, it might not be as perfect as we would hope for it to be, it might not reach our expectations but it's still a step forward. I am sure that eventually we will reach our goals and we will witness a lot more changes which will hopefully only be for the best (well maybe not much change in my life time - lol, yes I had to say that). I guess what I'm trying to say is that a little more positivity wont hurt and perhaps some patience should also be thrown in the mix because despite everything we do have a lot of opportunities in this country and we are for the most part living rather comfortably.

You'd think that with the state of record sales they'd finally reduce the prices especially here in Oman when it comes to International releases. I don't have a problem with paying around 5 rials for an album which is what it used to be priced at, but the problem now is that they bring in these cheap Thailand manufactured albums which sell at around 3 to 4 rials over there and price them at 6.5 to 7.5 Rials which in my opinion is a complete rip off, the quality of the print and the material they use for the inlay paper, CD and the jewel case differs greatly from those that come in straight from Europe or the U.S.A. I care about the quality because I buy these album for collective purposes only, seeing that I can already get all the music I need online now, so the quality is the only thing that drives me to continue buying music. I've been waiting for the new Madonna greatest hits album 'Celebration' to finally arrive only for me to find that it's brought in from Thailand and is also extremely over priced. Looks like I'm going to get my copy from the U.A.E when I go there this weekend, at least it will be a European print and it will also be cheaper there at around 6 Rials.

So I just got back from a so called 'night out' with the guys and I couldn't help but feel annoyed all night, not because the company wasn't great (err yes I have to say that cause they might be reading this lol, nah kidding, it really was great) but because there is absolutely nowhere to go in this country. Cinema is fully booked because we have ONE so called proper cinema in the whole of Muscat with 3 screens playing over 6 movies with the crappiest timings you could possibly imagine, restaurants have become a routine stop that we've grown bored of (we picked Nandos today who have increased their prices btw) and then we cruised around the usual locations of Shatti and Qurum and that was our night. We don't smoke sheesha, we don't club, we don't want to park the car and display it for the world to see and we certainly don't want to stand around at some pathetic location just to watch people come and go which lets face it is what most of the single Omani youth opt for as a hangout concept.

There is just absolutely nothing to do, all I can say is thank god for the internet, thank god for torrents and thank god that I can escape my reality through my art.

Yeps, haven't blogged in a long time mainly due to the fact that I absolutely hated the way that it looked before, and being the extremely picky Graphic designer (or mainly illustrator as my boss likes to call me) that really was a turn off. The new layout is nothing too complex in it's nature but it's more me with it's illustrative background.

Anyways, I hope this will get me in the mood to post here more often, I certainly have alot of things to talk about it's just a matter of finding the time to talk about it.