homeland or death2 by guevara02

I dont know in which category to submit this
It's a practice on the Arabic"Kufi" font.. In fact: I do not know where is the callegraphy category at all, I dont know even if there is a category like this
Any ways, translation: Homeland or death

r4ndycassanova Featured By Owner Oct 2, 2014

trima kasi mo peno2 jake balongee...

Aspartam Featured By Owner Apr 14, 2008

The font is good-looking, very architectural.
The only comment I can make about political content is when there is a statement like "something or death"
it usually intends death for other, those may prefer life.
The category is wrong, it should be in text art-> calligraphy. (or other relevant text art category since it is not handwriting ) . Of course in those it is usually appreciated to link to the ressource font used.
Ressource ->fonts is for free /personnal use fonts that you put here for others to use and download, with the image as a sample. Does it helps ?

I dont read chinese nor arabic, but I just find hilarious people confusing the writings style.

Deluxive Featured By Owner Apr 25, 2007 Professional General Artist

Nice work there!

guevara02 Featured By Owner Apr 25, 2007

thank you so much

Base-SG Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2007

Excellent work

I just started to learn "calligraphy" (<!-- in quotes cuz I do it in PabloDraw, an ansi-editor).

Good title... I interpreted it as people need something to fall back or else they're lost... like trees rooted in the ground...

screw the people that thought this was anti-anything... they're the ones that need help...

;

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2006

This is really great. I've never seen Arabic in such a dark style. I really like it. I dont know what I would do if I could never come back to oregon, probably would die, or try to find another place like it. Why is it that every one asumes this is an anti "western" peice? I think thats a verry negative idea. It seems to me that this is more about the intense passion that links a soul to its home. What is it about?

radio9x Featured By Owner Feb 26, 2006

It has taken a long time but Traditional Art / Typography / Calligraphy is the catagory and there is a large community of calligrapers growing there [link]

nice work

guevara02 Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2006

thanks for your help

shawkash Featured By Owner Dec 1, 2005

ah excusme, this art piece should go for Digital Art>misc category

LordofOrangesGuraham Featured By Owner Oct 28, 2005

that is truly beautiful, I'm one American who can appreciate beauty without caring from whence it came, I truly am astounded by the beauty and complexity of the script, english alphabet pales in comparison to so many other languages, it truly makes me wish I could easiy learn other languages, but I'm 19, and they say once a person ages past 12 or 13 it is rather difficult to learn another language, Japanese is freaking difficult to learn... well, this deserves a fav b/c of the beauty and simplicity that it is.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Oct 29, 2005

Thank you, stranger

I really appreciate the motive behind your words. What urges you to write such a comment is partly an attempt to say: al cultures do enrich the human heritage as a whole. (As I suppose)
My friend, this script is only a form, what does really interest me is the core of it: the meaning.
It is a way to say: We, also, deserve to live free of occupation. As humans do.

Be safe

5-legged-spider Featured By Owner Aug 27, 2005

cool font, where can i download it??

myanida Featured By Owner Apr 9, 2009

You can download similar fonts from [link] (20 fonts are downloadable per day). When you try to open fonts, you will see latin characters in preview mode. You must open eastern language support from OS Regional settings menu. Then you can use the fonts in any graphic program (i.e. CDR,PS etc.), firstly you remember click the text type and turn on Arabic keyboard from language bar.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2005

It's not a downloadable font, It's a project made on photoshop

Salamah-Bin-Akwa Featured By Owner Aug 12, 2005

Very impressive arab calligraphy. I amamyself working [self-taught] in kufi styles, especially square Kufi and Traditional. I must +fav it. Very neat, smooth, soft and elegant.

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I am a Muslim and I am not arab/shia. So these people will never accept my opinions. But I think, palaestinians/arabs will never achieve freedom the way they are struggling, no matter how far and hard they strive to liberate the arabs. Paleastinian cause has a religious background but today, paleastine is merely a land problem between arabs and israelis.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2005

Thank you, I've been browsing your gallery thouroughly . You are a kufi master. thank you for favouriting the work

Salamah-Bin-Akwa Featured By Owner Nov 23, 2005

Thank you so much. I dont think I am a master. But I am pretty sure that you are. I am just a self-learning ajmi. Heheheh!

Best regards.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Nov 26, 2005

well, at least on the internet I never seen anyone who masters kufi as you do (besides the lovely

in her [link] )
By "Ajmi", do you mean "ajami" (non-Arab) ? . If yes, then please accept my protest; those racist modifications used by older Arabs to distingusih them as an Elite from other citizens at the Imperialist Arab states hundreds of years ago are not valid and not right.

accept my deepest respect

Salamah-Bin-Akwa Featured By Owner Nov 26, 2005

Thanks so much for your kind words, I am defnitely honored... I will be putting more effort and time into square Kufi.

Did you checked my recent entry of Calligraphy "Heshaam"? [link] It is a based on Square Kufi + some other experiments... I would like to know your opinions as there are few people who really understand square Kufi.

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By ajmi, I did not meant to offend you in any case... But I agree that such discriminaion based on arab racism is very dangerous ( esp considering the current situation of the arabs themselves)

Roxi-vision Featured By Owner Jul 19, 2005 Professional General Artist

i think it looks awesome. I almost want to take it and use it in a poster or somethin. really cool, man!

guevara02 Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2005

Thank you

please credit me in the work

PalestinianBlood Featured By Owner Jun 9, 2005

nice i like it nice statement homeland or death...al watan la 7ad al mowt! hopefully ours will return soon m3 sabr wa inna allaha ma3 al sabreen

guevara02 Featured By Owner Jun 13, 2005

sanx fery fery motsh

WurdBendur Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2005

I think you've got this in exactly the right category. I can't read Arabic very well, and I don't know the language at all, but it looks very nice.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2005

It says "Homeland or death"
thank you for your comment

jaled Featured By Owner May 31, 2005

Exactly, that's the beauty of the image. The west, the fascism, the totalitarian systems, always try to impose a single and narrow vision of things where everything must be itemized.

Characthers like chinese or arabic, insurgency as Vietnam, Cuba or Irak....and the gastronomical "resistence" with local/indian/native foods or beverages instead of multinational fast-food are examples on how to defeat the beast: spreading them.

It's a shame there's practically no one arab/chinese professors in Mexico.

GOOD JOB

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2006

You say that "west" is fasicst? Totalitarian? China is more totalitarian and corupt than most "western" countries. Some of the most liberal and free countries are in the west. Just because other people dont have the freedom and wealth to do what they want. Have you ever been out of Mexico? Swahili natives dont eat from McDonalds. Most countries that have McDonalds and such, dont actually eat there much.
I could call all of mexico corrupt and evil, but thats just the government. And I could call all energy companies evil, but thats just enron. I could say that the american oil companies are evil, but then so are the middle eastern oil companies.

You-"Characthers like chinese or arabic, insurgency as Vietnam, Cuba or Irak...."
What in the word does that mean? I dont get it.
Please I would love to heard your point of view, but explain.

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2006

I think thats great. However, it is mohamads religion and mohamads orders to spread islam by the sword that contribute to the terrorism. But mostly it is the educated and the benifited manipulating the poor and devout, or just the poor. They beilve there fighting for god.

The difference is that if a rabbi was depicted like that it would be totally off base are farcicial, much like most anti-semetic views. People try and blame other "peoples" for things that are completely rediculous, its been done to the gews plenty. Even if some one did do it though, I dont belive any one should do any thing about it, its a waste of time. People stupid enough to publish that crap arnt worth wasting time on.

jaled Featured By Owner Oct 28, 2006

Hi, yes there are some exceptions but..

what about the recent Danish legal system opposition to sue a cartoonist? They accepted the drawings of Prophet Muhammed depicted as a terrorist really degraded him but... there will be NO SUE against the cartoonist. Of course, if a Rabbi were depicted as terrorist that would be defined as "ANTISEMITISM", 2 or 3 movies about the topic would be filmed in Hollywood right now. And SUES against people, states and more entitites.

Diversity is the choice: it's good the advance of chinese, arab, hindi and other languages. They break up the use of the monopolic English language.

Salu2

Rickis Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2005

The westerners are the only fascists around?

Rickis Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2005

Capitalists are the problem, not just the westerners

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2006

I'm a liberal, no not a democrat of some crazy independant, im a liberal as far as the truth of liberty goes. I belive people should be free to do what they want. Unless they hurt some one else. If people choose to buy somthing from a company and the company makes tons of money, its not the companies fault. The truth is, that companies that arnt doing as well rip you off the same, its just that there product isnt as popular. Companies will charge whatever they can get you to pay, and people will pay what it takes to get what they want/need. Capitalism is just an aspect of freedom. If there is an opertunity to benefit you take it, thats capitalism. And people do it every day, its just that it has a conotation twards capitalizing on money, and greed. People hurt eachother every day to get ahead, to there friends, to there family, to there country, to other countries and peoples, but as soon as it involves money people hate it.

guevara02 Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2005

I agree

chimeninnyhoo Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2005

Last two posts from me, send angry letters here.

Ernesto-Che-Guevara Featured By Owner May 31, 2005 Writer

you are just going to mess up the heads of the people that live in the west, they would never expect Arabic to be compatible with different fonts, now Chinese will really screw up their poor little minds

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2006

I think sir, that your mind is the one screwed up. The chinese arn't in the west, unless your in "the west". Your a Che-Guevara fan, so I'd say your probably in "the west". Or did you not notice? So either horrible with geography or that was just horribly nonsequiter. And what the hell does this have to do with the chinese?

PockyMafia Featured By Owner Oct 9, 2006

Ok, I just didnt understand what you where saying. Is english your second language.

Ernesto-Che-Guevara Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2006 Writer

You took my comment out of its intended context. The resemblence of the font to Chinese font would make americans believe that is from the Far East rather than from the Middle East. My comment was not intended to be serious, it was a silly one for someone I had talked to for a little while. Sorry if any confusion was caused.