Cover Work

Wanted to share something I did recently even though I'm swamped with so many other things with (life, work, friends, family, preparations, dealing with paper work, filing, post offices and bills, along with stuck in my next project...).

So, here is the art work for the magazine project I did for my friend. This first draft was my intial idea... it's with watercolors... but I wasn't able to execute the tone/feeling I was looking for...
Which basically brought me to this. I first drew up these two characters who were to be frustrated and indifferent. They were meant for an article under "Hebrew: A Difficult Language". Another article in the magazine was dealing with the new tourist attraction here in Jaffa with the German Colony and Train Station. So for the cover he asked me to put these two guys with some kind of back setting. The first picture was not liked or accepted. After discussing with them further, the second one was liked approved right away. When I was asked to do this specific work, my friend was already 2 weeks behind schedule and stressing. Because of playing games between him and the magazine people, it took me 2 weeks more for everything to finally get done. Thus, due to the situation, I drew everything really quickly and colored it all in photoshop. Yea, I know there's a real stale and cartoony feeling to the whole thing which I'm not too proud of either, but someone else was, so that's all that matters.

Here these two are arguing and the one in the blue is giving the second a very Israeli style hand gesture... very common here (as well as useful for expressing: wait, hold up, hey you, take it easy, calm down, go screw yerself, and whatever other derivations could be thought of).

Cover Work

Wanted to share something I did recently even though I'm swamped with so many other things with (life, work, friends, family, preparations, dealing with paper work, filing, post offices and bills, along with stuck in my next project...).


So, here is the art work for the magazine project I did for my friend. This first draft was my intial idea... it's with watercolors... but I wasn't able to execute the tone/feeling I was looking for...Which basically brought me to this. I first drew up these two characters who were to be frustrated and indifferent. They were meant for an article under "Hebrew: A Difficult Language". Another article in the magazine was dealing with the new tourist attraction here in Jaffa with the German Colony and Train Station. So for the cover he asked me to put these two guys with some kind of back setting. The first picture was not liked or accepted. After discussing with them further, the second one was liked approved right away. When I was asked to do this specific work, my friend was already 2 weeks behind schedule and stressing. Because of playing games between him and the magazine people, it took me 2 weeks more for everything to finally get done. Thus, due to the situation, I drew everything really quickly and colored it all in photoshop. Yea, I know there's a real stale and cartoony feeling to the whole thing which I'm not too proud of either, but someone else was, so that's all that matters.

These two characters (right) are supposed to be arguing. If you notice the hand gesture of the guy on the left in blue, it is a very popular Israeli thing to use for many different reasons like wait, excuse me, no way, vulgar curse, and I'm sure the list goes on).

Past Project

Thought I'd throw this in as well... did a project for my Graphic Designer friend. Illustrated these two pictures of babysitters... scanned and then colored in photoshop... just a quickie

Cover Work

As I have been so busy with preparations, life, work, family, friends, etc. as well as finding the time to continue with the Deep Blue, I was asked recently to do the cover for the magazine that I had illustrated for in a previous article. They really liked my work, and asked if I would do this months cover for them. Naturally, I said yes. It was pretty stressful as I was given very short time and even a shorter brief to work with. Eventually, I began with these characters who were suppose to look frustrated and indifferent. These characters were for an article called "Hebrew: A Difficult Language". Eventually, to tie in with another article that dealt with an old german colony and train station, I put these characters arguing in that setting. My first draft wasn't very convincing nor successful, as I was not really sure what they wanted. The final draft was very much enjoyed and accepted. Of course, it's more detailed and painted. I used photoshop to paint, which is not my first choice, but because of being so pressured on time, I had no other option.

So here goes...

Arguing (check out the hand gesture of the skinny guy in blue - it's a very Israeli thang!)

First Draft

Final Draft

See if you can find my hidden signature... (hint for those who don't know it... right side, holding a beer!)

Quick Pen

Here was a quick drawing I did on a character after practicing some line works from Edward Gorey... I tried two quick gestures and then gave her some simple clothes. Idea was to work on hair (more like Gris's style) and create fur...