Antarah‬ and Abla

Digital illustration for magazine cover, 2010 – 2014

Corel Painter + Wacom intuos 4

Antara Ibn Shaddad ( 525 – 601) was born in Najd (the northern Saudi Arabia). He was the son of Shaddād, a well-respected member of the Arabian tribe of Banu Abs, his mother was named Zabibah, an Ethiopian woman, whom Shaddad had enslaved after a tribal war. The tribe neglected Antara at first, and he grew up in servitude. Although it was fairly