A window cleaner

Figure of a man using a window cleaning pole, drawn for the logo of a water-fed pole window cleaning company. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 mm needle tip pen
Adobe Photoshop CS3

Random character design

Someone wanted some kind of game mascot character thingamajig, with the Vault Boy from Fallout as a reference. This was an initial character design I came up with. The project was eventually cancelled.
You may or may not see more of this character in the future.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 needle tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Helen Rhodeside Humor Section bookplate

I got commissioned to do this for a new section of humorous books in the library where I volunteer, dedicated to the memory of the head English librarian's mother, who died earlier this year.
I didn't do all of it, actually--the grayed-out parts were done by the librarian, who then asked me to add some humorous artwork around it. So I did.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Today's jpost.com cartoon

An old saw, set on the backdrop of Israel's "strategic" unilateral withdrawal from the northern part of the border town of Ghajar. Not pictured: UNIFIL peacekeepers. And yes, that's symbolic.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 mm needle tip pen
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

CM adaptation - redesign

Last time, I told you about how I tried to showcase the CM members' traits in their initial designs, which were rejected; following that, I discovered that a couple of video adaptations had been made from their adventures. I decided to try and follow that as a guideline.
This was the result.

Seldom have I drawn something that depressed me so terribly. There was so little variation in how the boys looked, it absolutely killed me. Identical clothing. Monochromatic color scheme. Largely average heights and complexions. Every variation (hair color, footwear, etc.) was greeted with the relief usually reserved for police officers interrupting a mugging. About as much personality, in short, as a socket wrench.
I submitted this design--and they liked it... But that's not the final twist in the tale. I discovered that I would actually have to pay out of my own pocket to adapt the stories and publish, instead of the "parent" company chipping in. It didn't take much cogitation to decide the effort simply wouldn't be worth it; the whole shebang is now history, except for what you see before you now.
Roll credits!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

CM adaptation - initial design

This was my initial design for the protagonists in a popular Israeli audiocassette series about religious kid detectives, which for purposes of nondisclosure I shall refer to as "CM". I had decided to get a bit more proactive in my attempts to gain meaningful employment and approached the copyright holders with an offer to adapt the team's adventures into comic book format.
In this design I attempted to give expression to each team member's individual character traits, such as there were; it was rejected out of hand. Come back next time to see how the redesign turned out...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen

Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

Yet another "in the style of" cartoon, this one mimicking Denace the Menace (the American one, that is, not the British one). Although it was unconfirmed as of the time of drawing, Bibi Netanyahu has indeed crumbled in the face of international pressure (represented here by Barry Obama, Hillary Clinton and British FM Billy Hague) and agreed to renew the building freeze in the settlements, "this time" for "just" three months.
G-d I hate politicians.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blu 0.5 mm needle tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Baby, it's cold inside!

I do not actually have an enormous, talking, artistically-inclined beaver for a roommate. If I did have one, though, this is the kind of conversation that would have transpired today:

Listen, folks, just because you all have chosen to wear extra layers--in black, no less!--in Israel in the summertime is no concern of mine, but could you at least try to think of other, dissimilarly attired worshippers when you set to the shul's AC to 10 degrees below freezing??

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Serif PhotoPlus SE

Today's jpost.com cartoon

UNESCO has recently released a report showing they've swallowed the ming-bogglingly blatant lie of Rachel's Tomb being an Islamic mosque hook, line and sinker (in addition to adding legitimency to the prevarication that the Cave of the Matriarchs is a mosque as well--there is indeed a mosque at the site, but it was built upon the preexisting Jewish tomb). To put this in context, the first time any Muslim claimed the site was a mosque was only about 15 years ago.
The above gang of idiots is comprised of Mr. Magoo, Thomson and Thompson of Tintin fame, and Inspector Clouseau. The seeing-eye dog is not meant to deliberately resemble anything in particular but was inspired by the character Dogmatix from Asterix. Please note how they are colored flat and have no shadows, to emphasize their antecedents' cartoonish nature.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 mm needle tip pen
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Shirt Design: Non-Profit Organization

This is the back picture for a shirt for a non-profit organization called Ma'alim Chiyuch (Raising a Smile), who go around cheering up sick people in hospitals, a noble cause if I ever heard one.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Shirt design: Hesder Class

This is the picture I drew for the back of a shirt of a Hesder class (the 52nd of the Orot Ya'akov yeshivah) for their third shiur. Several of my friends are in it, including the one I designed the Golani shirt for--he's also the one who got me this gig.
As you can see, the illustration consists of various wild animals making some noise, with some cypress trees in the background. (This is based on a quote from Reb Nachman of Breslov, which includes a phrase whose initials in Hebrew are the gimatriya of 52.)

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black fiber tip pen

Today's jpost.com cartoon

As electoral disaster looms for the Democrats, the increasingly--and belatedly--uneasy Barack Obama is about to learn the same painful lesson as King Canute: just because you're in power doesn't mean everything falls under your control.
UPDATE: Chronologically now the seventh cartoon reblogged by Daniel Dagan, over a year after seeing the light of day, in a wave-cartoons-themed post.
UPDATE 2: I guess Mr. Dagan liked it so much he used it twice--this time in a wave-cartoons-themed post.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0