Casual Portrait

This photograph depicts a man wearing a plain white t-shirt and dark-framed sunglasses, set against a stark green background. The subject's expression appears thoughtful, with a slight hint of introspection. The image has a minimalist aesthetic, focusing solely on the subject without any additional context or props.

The Rendered Figure

Pastel, NuPastel from Prismacolors and Creta Colors on Mi-Teintes® #122 Fannel Grey, 160 gsm, 19.5 in x 25.5 in / 50 cm x 65 cm, paper from Canson.
Nude and clothed figures from photographed models.

Farming Collection

Vector-based colorful edgy illustrations, created for classwork assignment of Licencing Art and Surface Design course. Designed to match farmer's aprons.

© 2022 Aljoheri

Obesity Factors

Classwork editorial illustration assignment about an illustration of a title without using words for an interior magazine page, 8x11in. The title was: "Factors that Drive Obesity".
My idea is to depict a man laying on his bed using his phone addictively. His torso looks like donuts but it somehow reminds us of the pool floating ring because of the pose and the bed sheet graphics look like water with decorated fishes.
The coloring is showing disturbing with a hot reddish spot driving your focus on the man's billy. The atmosphere is green to be opposite of red and shows laziness and disgust.

Sumer Collection

Classwork for Licensing Art and Surface Design course, my project is based on ancient Sumer, I chose this subject after a little brain-storming looking for anything to make illustrations and pattern designs that match the concept when I decided to choose from the history, the Sumer brought to my head like why not that ignored culture, the Sumerian, after they have done a significant effect on humanity, we should keep them in many revisions, I believe that is important to study this culture and explore their secrets, we can fix too many present issues.

By the way, I was limited to only four patterns and two main illustrations to find the suitable style for your collection, and then I recreated the gods from sculptured archeology and gave them life in colored illustration with attempted gestures, not so pushed pose, but something between the archeology and an illustration style works well with surface design, maybe on fabrics.

Spotting a Forgery

Instructions
Editorial illustrations are used to visually communicate an article in a magazine.

• Vertical format. 11 x 8 ½
• Make sure you leave room for TEXT
• Final art (due in a later module) may be done in your medium of choice.
• Artwork must be full-bleed

Description
Thomas Hoving declared that 40% of MET works are fake, before adding that it is a very widespread phenomenon. The Museum of Elne (Pyrenees- Orientales) indeed holds the rope, with 60%. As for the Mimara Museum in Zagreb, almost all of the 3,754 works are allegedly counterfeit.

Collage classwork

Xenomorph Alien

This is a classwork I did for vector illustration course, I have the freedom of choice of any exist character, so I picked xenomorph alien, because I understand the art movement behind this creature and the major inspiration it made on media and entertainment world. Thank to artist HR Giger, the creator of xenomorphism.

TO THE DEEPEST HELL

A digital illustration started on iPad Pro, Procreate app, using the digital brush that mimics charcoal, since I love to draw with charcoal on newsprint papers. I drew a figure in a diving pose from a reference of light, but I wanted to focus on the reflected light to show the figure. When I finished the work, I edited it in Photoshop to make it looks like a music album cover because it is not, it is just fiction work.

The Twins

For classwork, the final project story, I have to make a story, adaptation from a historical incident or any other known events or tales, write it in your way in scripts and then make a five-pages graphic novel.

I did this story, it is inspired by a historical event. This work has been revised a lot, and the style here is a result of many experiments.

Writer: Aljoheri
Illustrator: Aljoheri

A LIFE IN THE DAY

In the summer of 2022, I enrolled in a course, Graphic Novels and Comics. One of the assignments is about a sample script from DC Comics, and I have to imagine everything and draw it in steps, starting with thumbnail sketches, rough pencils, tight pencils, lettering, placing letters, and inking.

Writer: CARL N. MICHAELS
Illustrator: A. ALJOHERI

Music Album Cover Art

It is a classwork, about music album cover art, illustration, and how to depict the genre and the mood of the song in art, it is square format because the original vinyls. I had to choose any song/album and visualize it. I chose ACDC Burnin' Alive song, I did my research of the song, and I discovered it is about the incident in Waco, Texas, fire that killed too many people in 1993.

Book Cover Art

This book is not a real thing, it is a classwork. I created a vision of an imaginary context, I imagined a book that talk about origins of what we have in these cultures, and common thoughts. I imagined a deep-digging novel that exploring the past, seeking for clues about our thoughts to solve. With that passions, I created this work, I enjoyed every pixel.

Clothed Figure Drawing 01

My classwork figure drawing portfolio through the 2022 spring semester, clothed figure drawing course, Academy of Art University. Direct drawing from models, photos and live, charcoal on 18x24in newsprint papers, inks, and pencils on sketchbook.
See more and updated post of sketching on my blog: https://www.aljoheri.com/posts/categories/sketch

Climate Change Poster Art

Classwork for Concept, Technique, and Illustration course. I committed to this work to find a concept that communicates to people about the climate change problem as poster art, and show your references, and technique. So, I made a thumbnail sketch of three ideas.
This idea was brought to me while I was in bed before sleep, and I imminently created a note on my phone, it was "wooden foot" I didn't know its real name, the next day I grind Google to extract some good references. The Idea became well communicated and very effective as my instructor said.

Virtuality

Bitmap illustration of synthetic figures walking on a street, in a futuristic neglected town, they are looking at something from the right corner, this work is not serious project, it was for fun and practice, without references.

Verbstore illustrations

Amazing surreal illustrations created for a web coffee shop and supplies. I met my client, Nadeer, a Master of Art graphic designer and director, and we discussed the possibilities of making a vector-based narrative illustration that works well with his new brand Verbstore. I did pencil sketches and some researches to create an artworks that looks contemporary and dynamically communicate the viewer. We wanted these illustrations based on surrealism movement and something unrealistic.

Save The Children book illustration

Ayah Younis, a jordan author. She wants illustration work for her book that educate children against many types of bully and abuse. I designed the characters based on a script. The illustrations are colorful and stylized to match the crayons effects.

Whitelens profile booklet

The filmmaker, and founder of Whitelens Productions, Aiyed, called me while I am on summer vacation to make a company profile for him, design and illustrations, he is my friend, I asked him to gather all the needed texts, and revise it from the start to the last copyright texts, because when I work on editorial projects, with too many texts, using Adobe Indesign or any desktop publishing software, I like to make the design is the last work before print.

Aiyed is a professional person, and he understood what a professional feels like, he emailed me the documents, and texts only, and I started to create his printable booklet, with vector-based illustrations that express the mood and the filmmaking works.

I did those illustrations using only Apple Magic Mouse 2, with my 15in Apple MacBook Pro, in coffee shops, because I was on vacation, away from my studio.

Otto

Logo design for a coffee shop, in a minimalistic style. The word "Otto" means 8 "eight" in Italy. I found a way to make it express the meaning in italics. I designed the logo, signboard, paper cups, two social media ads, and the logo guidelines.

Unreasonable Lion

Vector-based illustration using Wacom Intous 4 connected to MacBook Pro 2011. A horned lion with human hands, riding a hospital bed's wheel, in a different reality possibility.

© 2012 Aljoheri

School icons

Vector-based icons for schools, created using Pen Tool, in a neat looks and care of balance.

Haram

Vector based artwork show an argument between two voices, limited books, candle, silent, against sunglasses, and questioning person. This work was collected by Arnout Helb, the owner of Greenbox Muesum, Amsterdam, 2011.

© 2011 Aljoheri

The Charming Car

Vector-based illustration, about a colorful car on a heavenly road. Children's illustration started on a pencil sketch on paper and then traced it using Pen Tool, Adobe Illustrator, when I was a bachelor student of Print Design, 2010.

Flying Objects

Pen Tool vector illustrations, children style, in harmony colors selected carefuly with Pantone color palette.

© 2010 Aljoheri

Airport at Night

Isolation in airport at night, when you are on the roof setting on the edge, listening to the winds, comes from the sea, everyone asleep, even the airplanes. Illustration created using Pen Tool, vector-based artwork, in 2010.

© 2010 Aljoheri