Abbas
Mahmood
Abbas Mahmood
( S3 )shared layer proof — real components, seeded content. Replaced by the real home in Session 4+.

Projects*

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Ink Riot
poster series
2026
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Bone Type
lettering
2026
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Static Bloom
brand world
2025
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Paper Ghosts
editorial illustration
2025
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Loud Walls
mural
2025
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Soft Static
UI art direction
2024
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Night Petrol
comic
2024
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First Lines
early archive
2023
the inversion — same semantic tokens, flipped
Let's talk.
كل شيء يبدأ بخطّ واحد. — 2026
↑ Arabic in Plex Arabic, digits in Geist (locked numerals rule)

Session 2 · raw Sanity content check

Projects (8)

  1. Ink Riot · poster series · 2026 · /work/ink-riot — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
  2. Bone Type · lettering · 2026 · /work/bone-type — no cover yet (skeleton)
  3. Static Bloom · brand world · 2025 · /work/static-bloom — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
  4. Paper Ghosts · editorial illustration · 2025 · /work/paper-ghosts — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
  5. Loud Walls · mural · 2025 · /work/loud-walls — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
  6. Soft Static · UI art direction · 2024 · /work/soft-static — no cover yet (skeleton)
  7. Night Petrol · comic · 2024 · /work/night-petrol — no cover yet (skeleton)
  8. First Lines · early archive · 2023 · /work/first-lines — no cover yet (skeleton)

Featured (home grid, 4/4)

  1. Ink Riot · poster series · 2026
  2. Static Bloom · brand world · 2025
  3. Paper Ghosts · editorial illustration · 2025
  4. Loud Walls · mural · 2025

Services (×6)

  1. Illustration · editorial, covers, one-off pieces — The core craft. Editorial pieces, album and book covers, one-off commissions. Ink first, pixels second.
  2. Brand worlds · identity from drawings, not grids — Full identities built out of drawings: marks, characters, textures. A brand you can recognize from one stroke.
  3. Type & lettering · wordmarks drawn letter by letter — Custom wordmarks and headline lettering, Latin and Arabic. Every letter drawn, none typed.
  4. UI art direction · product screens with a pulse — Art direction for apps and sites that refuse to look like templates. Works with your dev team.
  5. Murals & print · ink at scale — Walls, posters, merch. The same hand, several meters wide.
  6. Creative coaching · build your own portfolio — One-on-one coaching for building a portfolio in your own hand. The long version lives on the courses page. → /courses

Story panels

Paint statement: Every line on this page left my hand first.

Photo strip captions: sketchbook spread · ink on hands · studio wall

كل شيء يبدأ بخطّ واحد.

Everything starts with one line.

Home — hero / contact / inspire

Work page

All Work ( 08 ) — everything, oldest to loudest — no filters, just scroll

Courses page

Learn the hand, not the style. — coaching is open now — the course grid lands here in phase 2

Placeholder — every week someone messages me the same thing: “your stuff is sick, how do I start?” This page is where that question gets a real answer. Right now the answer is coaching — you and me, on WhatsApp, looking at your actual work. You show me what you’ve got. I tell you the truth. Then we build.

Placeholder — the full courses are coming: recorded, structured, drawn like everything else here. I’m making them the way I make everything — slowly, by hand, until they’re right. Coaching is open while you wait, and the people I coach now get the courses first.

send me your work → one honest conversation → a plan in your own hand

I won’t teach you my style. I’ll help you find yours.

Ask about coaching. — no forms. no email chains. chat first, decide later. — WhatsApp Abbas →

Courses tracks (3)

  1. Find your line · voice & style · [1:1 now · course phase 2]
    • a taste audit — what you save vs what you make
    • one hundred bad drawings, on purpose
    • your first piece that could only be yours
  2. Build the body · work that proves it · [1:1 now · course phase 2]
    • projects, not exercises — self-set briefs that look client-grade
    • one drawn world pushed across formats
    • finishing: the skill nobody teaches
  3. Ship the portfolio · get it seen · [1:1 now · course phase 2]
    • curation — kill your darlings, keep the evidence
    • labeling that sells: title · category · year
    • getting seen without begging

404 lines (5)

  1. This page never existed. Or I killed it. Same thing.
  2. You found the one thing here I didn’t draw.
  3. Dead link. I kept the skull, though.
  4. He ate the page. He does that.
  5. Four-oh-four. Even my errors stare back.

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