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I don't feel like writing up a general entry of my highlights in 2009 because not much would be different than other years seeing that I certainly won't expose too many personal details about my life which lets face it would pretty much make the entry useless, so I'm going to talk about a career advancement which is working on the 'renna' account for most of the year. It's an amazing opportunity, especially here in Oman to work on a project that feels just right for you and this account was just perfect for me. I was able to use my illustrative style and showcase it to the masses and thanks the the many months of illustrating for them my skills have improved so much since I started illustrating, in fact when i look back at some of the illustrations from back in January or February I definitely feel that they're not as great as they could've been but what the heck it's a learning process and I'm glad I got to learn it this way.

I look forward to what's in store next year, who knows? maybe a physical gallery? a small business on the side? All I can say now is thank you god for this beautiful and amazing gift, thank you 'realitycg' and 'renna' for the incredible opportunity and thanks to everyone who supported and encouraged me through the years, I am eternally grateful for it.

This is my latest artwork which I'm very pleased with the result, I wanted to illustrate something for the winter and thought that it would be fun to do something cheeky that revolves around hot chocolate. I hope you like it. Also exclusive to my blog is a wallpaper version of it for anyone who wants to place it on their desktop, the wallpaper has various textures on it which were added in photoshop. Enjoy.

Wallpaper Version:

So I was in Dubai a couple of weeks ago and while walking through virgin records in Emirates mall, I came across a section that does iPhone skin covers and they had an album of patterns and artwork that you can choose from and as I flipped through it I was shocked to find one of my old designs (and looking back at it now I don't think it's all that great lol), but yeah it was quite surprising to find it there, but I wasn't pissed (even though they are actually making money off my work)I actually found myself smiling about it and some contentment filled me to know that my art was good enough for them to feature there amongst their collection. The person in charge their asked me if I wanted to have it on my phone and I told her with a cheeky smile that I'm not going to pay for something that I made and plus the resolution wasn't great seeing that they ripped it off my deviantart account.

The image in their album:

The Original Version: