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Joumana Medlej
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Joumana started drawing sometime in middle school and has never stopped ever since. Self-taught in figure drawing and comic theory, she enrolled in the American University of Beirut and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design. She worked as an animator for Future TV (Lebanon) for a couple of years, and then decided to freelance to have a chance for exposure to different jobs and creative hobbies. She has been involved in mail art, learned bookbinding and other crafts, experimented with mixed media and watercolor, which gave rise to several exhibits, as did her travel photography. Eventually she came around full circle to her first love: graphic novels and illustration. She is currently focusing most on her comic book "Malaak: Angel of Peace", and co-authoring a series of children's books about Lebanon. She also works as assistant to Professor Samir Sayegh, as Art Director/Concept Artist of Quirkat Digital Entertainment Solutions, and still writes travel articles. The wide array of techniques Joumana experimented with, combined with her practical design training, led her to a creative approach where the boundaries between traditional and digital mediums, photography, and crafts are dismissed. Not feeling bound to any one medium, she puts her entire arsenal of skills to use, going back and forth between physical and virtual work desks to achieve the desired result. She likes, for instance, to anchor her illustrations in reality by introducing photos, or to turn digital creations into handmade objects. Joumana's subject matter revolves mostly around what she is most involved with in life: Lebanon, martial arts and ethnography. Click the link below to join Marc Nader's Fine Art Photography Forum
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