Projects*
Session 2 · raw Sanity content check
Projects (8)
- Ink Riot · poster series · 2026 · /work/ink-riot — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Bone Type · lettering · 2026 · /work/bone-type — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Static Bloom · brand world · 2025 · /work/static-bloom — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Paper Ghosts · editorial illustration · 2025 · /work/paper-ghosts — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Loud Walls · mural · 2025 · /work/loud-walls — featured — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Soft Static · UI art direction · 2024 · /work/soft-static — no cover yet (skeleton)
- Night Petrol · comic · 2024 · /work/night-petrol — no cover yet (skeleton)
- First Lines · early archive · 2023 · /work/first-lines — no cover yet (skeleton)
Featured (home grid, 4/4)
- Ink Riot · poster series · 2026
- Static Bloom · brand world · 2025
- Paper Ghosts · editorial illustration · 2025
- Loud Walls · mural · 2025
Services (×6)
- Illustration · editorial, covers, one-off pieces — The core craft. Editorial pieces, album and book covers, one-off commissions. Ink first, pixels second.
- Brand worlds · identity from drawings, not grids — Full identities built out of drawings: marks, characters, textures. A brand you can recognize from one stroke.
- Type & lettering · wordmarks drawn letter by letter — Custom wordmarks and headline lettering, Latin and Arabic. Every letter drawn, none typed.
- 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.
- Murals & print · ink at scale — Walls, posters, merch. The same hand, several meters wide.
- 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.
- PANEL 01 · THE DESK
I started the way most of us start: copying cartoons off a screen too small for them, in the margins of notebooks that were supposed to be for school. The margins ran out before the drawings did.
The early years taught me speed and nerve. Going professional added deadlines; I kept everything else exactly as it was.
Nobody taught me the rules, so I never learned which ones to obey.
- PANEL 02 · THE RULE
The working rule: no stock, no templates, no borrowed style. If it appears on this site, it was drawn, lettered, or built by the same pair of hands — including the skull that met you at the door.
The portfolio is the proof. Scroll back up — it's all evidence.
Photo strip captions: sketchbook spread · ink on hands · studio wall
كل شيء يبدأ بخطّ واحد.
Everything starts with one line.
Home — hero / contact / inspire
- Intro: Designer & illustrator. Everything here is hand-drawn — including the one watching you.
- Scroll cue: scroll — it comes apart ↓
- Contact: Let's talk. — No forms. No email chains. One green button. — WhatsApp me ⟶ / download resume ↓ / elsewhere
- Inspire: Your turn. — You just scrolled through one person's hands. / Yours are free right now. Go build the thing — loud, unfinished, yours. — 100% HAND-DRAWN · 0 TEMPLATES · EST. 2026
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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- This page never existed. Or I killed it. Same thing.
- You found the one thing here I didn’t draw.
- Dead link. I kept the skull, though.
- He ate the page. He does that.
- Four-oh-four. Even my errors stare back.
Settings
- Site name: Abbas Mahmood
- WhatsApp number: PLACEHOLDER — Mohammed's dev number goes here (digits only, e.g. 9665XXXXXXXX)
- Base greeting: PLACEHOLDER — opening message for the main contact button. Abbas/Mohammed: rewrite this in Studio before launch.
- Project template: PLACEHOLDER — message for the {project} page CTA. Abbas/Mohammed: rewrite this in Studio before launch.
- Coaching: Hey Abbas — I’m interested in coaching. Here’s where I’m at: …
- Track template: PLACEHOLDER — message for the {track} card CTA. Abbas/Mohammed: rewrite this in Studio before launch.
- Resume request: PLACEHOLDER — message sent instead of the resume download when the file is missing. Abbas/Mohammed: rewrite this in Studio before launch.
- Enroll template (phase 2): PLACEHOLDER — phase-2 enrollment message for {course}. Not used until phase 2.
- Project CTA heading: Want something like this?
- Footer tagline: drawn by hand
- Sound enabled: true
- Socials: instagram (PLACEHOLDER — real instagram URL) · behance (PLACEHOLDER — real behance URL) · linkedin (PLACEHOLDER — real linkedin URL)
- Logo: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/djkz2n6l/production/f2464d95df573992cec9b48a58ce43b353600063.svg
- Logo (dark): https://cdn.sanity.io/files/djkz2n6l/production/f2464d95df573992cec9b48a58ce43b353600063.svg
- Favicon: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/djkz2n6l/production/f2464d95df573992cec9b48a58ce43b353600063.svg
- Resume file: not uploaded yet
- SEO title: Abbas Mahmood
- SEO title template: {page} — Abbas Mahmood
- SEO description: PLACEHOLDER — one- or two-sentence site description for search engines. Rewrite before launch.
- OG image: set (logo stand-in)