In reply to Self-branding advice, anyone?:
Um, maybe dunno. Not to sure about him either.
I mean the guy that has some unique brushes (they look something like small steel combs), he uses them to create really broad strokes (most times in color?) and compliments that with some black Arabic script ... all done in the key of awesome.
I don't think he's Turkish, Iranian comes to mind ... maybe you upped him to your flickr account. I'll go check it out.
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