The artist, Rabab al-Atabi, overcame the difficult circumstances and the great challenges she faced in her life to take her first steps to reach her goal and achieve her dream of being a painter. Where their forties translated her dreams and passion with her brush, trying to express the pain, hopes, and ambition inside her, unleashing her dream of drawing, despite her studies in social service at the University of Baghdad. After studying social work, Rabab went to study for a high diploma in learning difficulties from Al-Balqa University, but her dream and hobby of drawing did not prevent her from continuing her studies and developing herself academically. However, the difficult economic conditions that she and her family lived in did not allow her, so she had to look for an income to help her family, so she turned to sew, which is also one of her hobbies besides drawing, and she strived to make these hobbies a source of income for her and her family. Rabab began her artistic career in 2019 when she joined the Orchid studio to develop the talent that accompanied her since her childhood, so she refined and developed it, and obtained an accredited certificate in the arts of painting, Then she set out to realize her dream after she was ready for that, and her family continued to support and encourage her to continue her project and achieve her dream, because they believed in her ability and talent, especially that they saw her distinguished works, as she was distinguished by the art of drawing by burning on wood and drawing portraiture, where she has a strong relationship with wood, which made her She tends to draw on wood and loves it more than any other art of drawing, despite the difficulty of working in it, but she decided to follow her path in achieving her dream and began to think of ways and means that would help her reach her ambition. Rabab was keen to promote her paintings and wooden crafts through the “Facebook” and “Instagram” pages and some libraries and share her heritage paintings with the Emaar Salt Foundation, but she was not able to sell much, so she decided to join the CRAFTS MARKET platform, to help her spread her works and increase her sales volume, through a national platform that seeks to develop and succeed projects of craftsmen working in the field of handicrafts.