Iman Hussain Illustrated story

This was the first illustration of a large commissioned project where i was to paint various moments of the life/myth of this arabic prophet. Full creative liberty on this project (well for some things), I needed to follow certain restrictions they had regarding clothing, faces, subtlety of the paintings, magic atmosphere, etc. Was a very challenging project because I wasn’t familiar with their culture, so i had research a lot to make correct attires, as well as some of the locations like the Mecca or rural towns that needed to be portrayed correctly. really fun to do #illustrator