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).