What's going on guys,
and welcome back to our next video here in Lebanon.
And I'm very, very excited about today's
video because I have Charbel with me today.
Charbel is a very, very well known artist who draws Arab
celebrities from all over the Middle East area.
He has kindly asked me to be the first
American that he's going to be drawing here.
So Charbel, if you don't mind,
would you go ahead and talk a little bit about yourself and your work?
For sure, I want to say that I'm a normal artist
unlike the other artists around the world.
But when I started with my art was really special because I tend to show my art
to the whole world through the well-known personalities.
And this started at a very young age when
by chance I had the chance to have my
artwork publicized by a really well-known stars.
I want to say that the first that really support me,
her name is Haifa Wehbe.
She was the first one who shed the light
on my talent and started to show my artwork to the world
and I'm really appreciating this.
And after that, I started to draw more
celebrities and to become known in this field.
I've only viewed just a couple of pieces of his work here in person,
but I've checked it out online and it is absolutely beautiful.
So for me, it's such an honor to be able
to join, especially here in Lebanon at such a time where we can have this
experience, see some of your artwork and be a part of it and I'm very excited.
What we're doing right now with something,
we have to show also the arts and the talent in this country.
Why?
Because, as we know, this kind of art is well-supported in the Western countries.
Why? Because they respect the talent,
they respect the art, they have the passion to art.
So that's why I want now with Mac, because he's from USA to show the world
that even in Lebanon, even we are in those situations,
those hard situation, we have to
always show that the talents and use capacity can win and can,
if you want to overpass those situations
and we can add to our country and we can help our country with what we have.
So this activity, when we work on it,
it will give value to our country and will help our country hand by hand.
And I want also to open a campaign with you
so we are ready with Mac if you want.
We are going to put our
Instagram and everything, going to share in my pages.
So everyone all around the world will help artists who have this talent.
I'm here to sell my artwork and the benefit will go to help Lebanon.
This is huge, guys, because many of you through Instagram,
through TikTok have been asking, how can you help Lebanon?
And this is an amazing campaign
that Charbel came up with that can both give back to the artist and more
importantly, right now, give back to the community of Lebanon
that's in a very crucial and critical state.
Thank you so much.
Anyway, thank you for watching this video and sharing it with your friends.
Sharing it on your social media platforms is a huge thank you already, guys.
All right, guys.
So before we get started with drawing, I want to introduce you to Emilio,
who is here from the city called Beit Meri. Am I saying that right?
Yeah. Perfect.
It took me a couple of tries of practicing.
And so where we're going to be drawing
at today is actually specifically in this park up here in Beit Meri.
And in this park, you have this very cool
concept cafe that we want Emilio to go ahead and explain for us.
It is an upcycle project where we use
zero budget with sustainable architecture, where we use, for example, water tank there,
this palette to make a table and the little flowers.
Wow. So that's a water tank down there.
And are these pieces of wood from palettes? Yes.
Wow.
That's very impressive.
And many water tanks
but cut it into half or
it is a very simple project where people can come and play.
Plus they can enjoy the cafe at night.
There is many people coming 18 plus and take a beer,
with a bederria, and like that. Very nice.
So you can have a lot of fun here.
You can come here by day for a very relaxing environment,
come have a soda or at night for 18 plus,
you can have a drink up here so that's pretty cool.
Yeah. Very nice.
Well, yeah.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
Guys, it's going to be an awesome place to be
drawn in, and I can't wait to share it with you
so let's do it.
Habibi.
Habibi good.
What's your name?
(My name is Bahr Asroum) Bahr Asroum?
(Yeah) Cool,
and you work at the cafe. How long have you been working?
(1 month) 1 month, okay
so you're new here. So you can come see him,
he'll serve you some drinks if you come down to the cafe. Habibi.
All right, guys.
So this is where we're going to be drawing right here.
I'm very excited to get started.
Charbel has already done a small
sketch of my face to prepare, and he's going to tell us a little bit
about the process and how he's getting started.
Now I'm starting with the face of Mac,
so I started to construct the major lines that are creating a space.
As if to, I will tell you a better, how to do this.
We take, like,
construction lines and we work on them and we take the proportion
left and right to see the right position of the eyes, the right position of the mouth,
of the nose, the eyebrows, of the hair, of the ears, of the neck and of the chin.
All of those things are really
coordinating together through to axis of you.
Those axis will be eliminated later on
and we keep the major lines that we ended
up with in order to move into the rendering phase,
which is this face now we're doing right now to gain time. And how you were notice
that he's becoming his face will become on the paper as if it's a picture because
I'm a hyper realistic drawer, as I told before.
And this kind of art say that you draw the
person or you draw anything that you see as if it's taken as a picture.
So this is one of the most difficult kind of art
and we are a few artists that can be so punctuous if you want and can get this result.
How much I can manipulate its intensity
so I can like in Photoshop,
you see that you have many intensities and the human hand can do it also.
So as human, we can do what Photoshop can do
also using our hands.
I am doing this,
this we don't do it a line. We do it
as a shadow, why? Is because our nose is not
structurally something like has a structure or it has a volume.
Yeah, it's almost like a curve. (Yeah it's a curve.)
Even this, it's not a lot.
I want to close this so it can be a shadow.
You see the eyes are beautiful.
Yeah
Yeah, we have talents in Lebanon so the opportunity we're not supported.
Before I was more into art because of the situation.
Now I slowed down a lot because of the inner challenges and what's happening in Lebanon
so it's affecting me.
Yeah it's hard to focus on your passion when so much is going on. (Unfortunately)
Bro it's done. Are you excited to see it?
Man, I'm so excited. (Really?)
Just watching the level of detail of this has blown my mind.
The amount of absolute thought that goes into every piece of hair,
every wrinkle, things that I couldn't even see on my face, (It is meticulous.)
He has meticulously found everything
so I'm ready. Let's go, bro.
Okay, now, bro.
This is the ending.
How are the results?
Oh, my God bro.
This is incredible.
Thank you bro.
You are a magician.
Just look at this.
This took a few hours and he went through every single detail.
You can see just absolutely everything about my facial complexion.
When he was doing the eyes,
you could just see the work come to life and it's a glowing, glowing piece of art.
He makes me look way better in this than I am in person.
Not really, you're way better trust me.
It's so spot on.
I tried to make your expression,
I tried to make your inner,
inner soul showing up into your eyes so people, they will look at it
and they say, this is the real Mac that we know.
They will see this inside your eyes, inside your expression,
and this is something for eternity.
This is amazing.
If you looked at my arm, I've goose bumps. It's so amazing.
Habibi.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. (you're really my bro)
(and we love you in Lebanon so much.) Thank you man.
And this is something that to show our love for you.
Thank you so much. (You deserve more than that)
and as Lebanese, we want you to stay here.
Yeah I know, I need to stay longer, inshalla.
Inshalla, you will marry a girl, your wife is from here.
And you're most welcome,
and I'm really happy that you like what I did.
I love it.
I did it with my passion.
I did it with all my feelings, with all my perfection
so you deserve it
and thank you for showing the Lebanese talent as it is
and spreading the message of how important to support the Lebanese
artist and the Lebanese talent in order to make better Lebanon in the future.
And maybe with our voices
Lebanon will become better hopefully
and I believe it with your presence
and was your love, with your support, we will
receive finally, a better Lebanon in the future.
This is what we all hope for.
We hopefully want this and thank you, bro again.
Thank you so much.
I really, really appreciate it,
this means the world to me.
It made my day, made my week.
This is going to be one of my most prized possessions I'll have in my life
and I, no words to describe how thankful I am for this.
And also we're gonna thank my friend Emilio as it is and
simplicity and welcoming and
what we say in warm feeling, how we receive
people from abroad.
This is very nice.
Thank you so much.
How did you find the food?
Such good manousha,
the burgers were great,
the pizza was great.
They even filled the belly up with some ice cream after
so it doesn't get any better than that. Merci, merci.
If you want to come here and try Cafe Corvo Vois
from all over Lebanon and even from the Arab world
if they will come or from USA.
If you will come to Lebanon,
come and taste and see, how did you find Batroun and this region?
You will see.
You will see, the drone shots.
It's a beautiful place.
So much to see here, amazing views of Beirut.
So yeah, guys, I really appreciate you watching this whole video.
And once again, as we said at the beginning,
Charbel is working on along with myself, a campaign to help support
his artwork, to help support the Lebanese people in these rough times.
So I'm gonna put some information in some links below in the description.
So go ahead and check those out.
If you want to go ahead and purchase some of his work,
if you can afford to purchase it, it would mean the world to us if you can
at least share this video with someone who might like it.
And thanks so much for watching
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Okay.