Sunday, October 14, 2012

هل تعرفون ... من هو إمحوتب ؟ Imhotep the symbol of the Egyptian doctors

Imhotep was an ancient Egyptian official.
He was called Imuthes by the Greeks, 27th century BC (circa 2650–2600 BC).

The meaning of the name:

"the one who comes in peace, is with peace". 

He was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra (or Re) at Heliopolis. 

Imhotep  in Louver
He is considered to be the first architect and engineer and physician in early history though two other good physicians, Hesy-Ra and Merit-Ptah lived around the same time.

The full list of his titles is:

Saturday, September 22, 2012

How to design Aquarium with illustrator with video كيفية تصميم حوض السمك ببرنامج اليوستريتور بالفيديو

An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fish-keepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians,marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants. The term combines the Latin root aqua, meaning water, with the suffix -arium, meaning "a place for relating to".

تصميم حوض سمك مجسم باليوستريتور

An illustrator design for aquarium


To make that design;
  • Open new illustrator document with dimensions of 300X300
  • With the Ellipse Tool draw an oval shape  with diameters 200X200,with 2 pt stroke and leaner gradient fill.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Did you visit The Blue Hole of Dahab Egypt on the Red Sea? الثقب الأزرق فى دهب - مصر


The Blue Hole of Dahab Egypt on the Red Sea is a popular diving location on east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. 

"Blue Holes"are also called vertical caves[ A pit cave, or vertical cave — or often simply called a pit]. There are many different blue holes located around the world, typically in low-lying coastal regions.

The map of the hole


What are blue holes?

Sunday, August 26, 2012

A poem by William Shakespeare من شعر وليام شكسبير مترجم باللغة العربية


A poem by William Shakespeare in illustrator artwork


Or I shall live your epitaph to make,

Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Drawing Flares With The Flare Tool In Illustrator رسم التوهجات بأليوستريتور


The Flare tool creates flare objects with a bright center, a halo, and rays and rings. Use this tool to create an effect similar to a lens flare in a photograph.
Drawing tools in illustrator
Flare Tool
Flares include a center handle and an end handle. Use the handles to position the flare and its rings. The center handle is in the bright center of the flare-the flare path begins from this point.


Create a default flare

Illustrator Symbolism Tools Options with video خيارات أدوات الرموز فى اليوستريتور مع الفيديو التوضيحى


Symbolism tool options
You access symbolism tool options by double-clicking a symbolism tool in the Tools panel.


Symbolism Tools gallery  
General options, such as diameter, intensity, and density, appear at the top of the dialog box. Tool-specific options appear at the bottom of the dialog box. To switch to options for a different tool, click a tool icon in the dialog box.
 Symbolism Tools Options
General options

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Painting with Illustrator

Introduction to Painting

To add visual interest to your artwork, Illustrator provides calligraphic , scatter, art, and pattern brushes. In addition, you can use the Live Paint feature, to paint different path segments and fill enclosed paths with different colors, patterns, or gradients. Using opacity, masks, gradients, blends, meshes, and patterns provides limitless opportunities for creativity.

  • Painting with fills and strokes
  • Live Paint groups
  • Brushes
  • Transparency and blending modes
  • Gradients
  • Meshes
  • Patterns

Painting with fills and strokes

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

How to design three-dimensional character in Illustrator,with video.كيفة عمل حروف مجسمة بإليوستريتور

3D effects enable you to create three-dimensional (3D) objects from two-dimensional (2D) artwork.
You can control the appearance of 3D objects with lighting, shading, rotation, and other properties. You can also map artwork onto each surface of a 3D object

We will use both Illustrator and Photoshop.

How to design it?

Sunday, July 29, 2012

My First Visit to Paris *** the Third part زيارتى الأولى لباريس *** الجزء الثالث

Really I was surprised when I saw Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre Museum. About both quantity and quality. I had discovered that what we studied was not enough.  

I saw Egyptian antiquities from the Pharaonic era, ,Romanian era, Coptic civilization and civilization of the Nile Valley ,Upper Egypt and Sudan, which was formerly part of Egypt. The Egyptian department contains more than 50 thousand pieces of great archaeological placed in a wonderful places.

I saw the statues of the Egyptian writer of various eras and statues of ancient Egyptian gods such as Isis, Osiris, Set, and Thoth (goddess of wisdom when the Pharaohs), and a great coffins such as the size of the ark of the King Ramses II.
But all of this did not surprise me because we all know that,and we had studied it in the schools, what surprised me
will write to you with the pictures now.

I liked that our grandparents -the Pharaohs -  were interested in all beauty aspects and they decorate every thing and you will see with pictures with me.
a woman wearing a bra 

It surprised me to find a statue of a woman wearing a bra which shows the progress reached by the ancient Pharaohs.

Friday, July 27, 2012

My First visit to Paris *** The second part زيارتى الأولى لباريس *** الجزء الثانى


It is my first visit to Paris and I am very happy to be there even for only 8 days.
Many historical monuments are found  here mostly back to the nineteenth century.
Of the most important and most famous landmarks here I had chosen some to talk about .

The Eiffel Tower 
Eiffel Tower 
Is the symbol of the city of Paris and is an iron tower with a height of 324 meters, there is in Paris, in the far north-west of Park Champ - de - March, near the River Seine. Created by Gustave Eiffel and his associates on the occasion of the International Exhibition of Paris in 1889.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Cannon of Breakfast of Ramadan مدفع رمضان *** مدفع الإفطار إضرب

The Cannon of Ramadan is the cannon used as an announcement for the breakfast time to tell the public about this appointment.

It is a tradition in many Muslim countries so that the country's army fired an artillery shells sound at the moment of announcing the sunset date for the breakfast and break the fast during Ramadan.

Cairo the capital of Egypt was the first city where the cannon of Ramadan was launched . At the location of the Citadel of Salah al-Din.

Historical Overview History suggests that the Muslims - in the month of Ramadan - during the days of the Prophet Muhammad, (peace be upon him) eat and drink from sunset until bedtime, He began to use prayer's call ( adhaan ) by Bilal and Ibn Umm Maktoum as an announcing for the end of the breakfast of the day. Muslims have tried throughout history - and with more space and the spatial spread of Islam - to invent different ways to the prayer's call of the announcement date for the breakfast, until the cannon appeared to exist .

The story of the cannon of breakfast in Cairo 

The Cannon of Breakfast of Ramadan
Cairo was the first city where it started at Ramadan. A novel that the appearance of the cannon came about by accident, there was no deliberate intention to use for this purpose at all.
There are two stories:

Sunday, July 08, 2012

My First Visit to Paris *** the first part زيارتى الأولى لباريس *** الجزء الأول

I had visited Paris few days ago . It was the first time for me . 


Paris, the capital, and largest city of the French Republic, as we say France and is also the capital of fashion and international fashion houses such as Pierre Cardin.
Paris is one of the most important historical places in the old, and modern world , which have several implications of the nineteenth century.
 Eiffel Tower


Its location

The Quote Of The Day.

You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.

One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.

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