A bulldog with horns for a bid, quick sketch + coloring. Not chosen.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
2/28/13
Horndog
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
dogs,
the eighth day zoo,
very bad pun
2/26/13
Ibex head logos
Some stylized ibex heads (no curves) done as sample work for a bid. Not chosen.
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Labels:
adobe,
black n white,
computer created,
ibex,
illustrator,
logo,
the eighth day zoo
2/24/13
Today's J. Post cartoon
Well whaddaya know, the Post actually printed one of my cartoons on the day I meant it to be printed on!
The fact that Abbas is asking for candy instead of exchanging it is a deliberate error and a commentary on the Way Things Are. Plus, of course, he's not even Jewish.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
The fact that Abbas is asking for candy instead of exchanging it is a deliberate error and a commentary on the Way Things Are. Plus, of course, he's not even Jewish.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
israel,
judaism,
political cartoons
2/22/13
Freddy Krueger, egg-style
So the way this works is, I was on Freelancer.com and saw somebody posted a job that caught my imagination: draw Freddy Krueger in the shape of an egg, Angry Birds-style. I quickly inked a sketch and sent it in; after a couple of revisions, I won the bid. Then, after I had sent in the pretty-much-finished image, the client informed me that he was having issues with the site's payment process--so he decided to go look for a different bidder on another website, promising that he would not use my version. Why he couldn't just decide to pay me directly without the middleman is beyond me, but it cost me positive ranking on the site as well as money for a job well done.
So here it is.
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
So here it is.
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Labels:
a nightmare on elm street,
adobe,
color,
commission,
computer created,
illustrator
2/20/13
Today's J. Post cartoon
While some of its individual countries classify Hizbullah as a terrorist organization, the EU as a whole (and most of its bigger members) are rather more hesitant about taking the plunge. Their ridiculous excuse for their continued waffling in the face of the official Bulgarian investigation, which concluded that Hizbullah was indeed directly behind the Burgas attack last July, would drive other men to drink and drove me to the drawing-board. I mean, come on, it's like saying the Nazis could not be held culpable for what the SS did, or not considering Fatah terrorists despite the actions of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade... oh wait.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
european union,
hizbullah,
israel,
political cartoons
2/17/13
Today's J. Post cartoon, with predecessor
In the same vein as my winter weather cartoons, I recycled characters from a previous unpublished cartoon for a later one on the same basic subject--in this case, ridiculous military censorship.
The current brouhaha is about Ben Zygier, a.k.a. "Prisoner X", the details of whose case were for a while forbidden from publication in the domestic Israeli press by IDF censors while at the same time being widely available from every single other available news outlet. Honestly, I understand where they're coming from, but this tactic is absolutely and completely ineffectual in the ultra-connected 21st century...
...And three years back, much the same thing went down with the scandal involving stolen IDF files being given to a journalist.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch) (both)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen (both)
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen (1)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen (2)
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition (1)
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0 (2)
The current brouhaha is about Ben Zygier, a.k.a. "Prisoner X", the details of whose case were for a while forbidden from publication in the domestic Israeli press by IDF censors while at the same time being widely available from every single other available news outlet. Honestly, I understand where they're coming from, but this tactic is absolutely and completely ineffectual in the ultra-connected 21st century...
...And three years back, much the same thing went down with the scandal involving stolen IDF files being given to a journalist.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch) (both)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen (both)
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen (1)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen (2)
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition (1)
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0 (2)
Labels:
censorship,
color,
computer assisted,
israel,
political cartoons
2/15/13
"Connections" Purim 5773 cartoon
The call went out from the local monthly mag for humorous contributions for the Adar issue, so my special brain came up with this. And yes, I'm deliberately homaging Calvin and Hobbes with the character designs.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
black n white,
computer assisted,
humor,
judaism
2/14/13
Today's J. Post cartoon
Coalition-building promises to be a bit more interesting this time around, with Netanyahu needing the support of the anti-chareidi Yesh Atid as the Knesset's second-biggest party while at the same time really wanting to include Shas and UTJ as well. Mix in the fact that he's trying to play HaBayit HaYehudi off everybody else and, well, you get this.
There were several variations on the basic concept that I was kicking around and I'm still not sure if I really picked the right one to draw in the end. Still, it got published, and I suppose that's what matters.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
There were several variations on the basic concept that I was kicking around and I'm still not sure if I really picked the right one to draw in the end. Still, it got published, and I suppose that's what matters.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
humor,
israel,
political cartoons,
science
2/12/13
Today's J. Post cartoon
What Iran's delaying tactics may (chas veshalom) eventually lead to.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
iran,
nuclear weapons,
political cartoons
2/10/13
Detective Chameleon!
Ta-da! Turns out I was drawing a chameleon lizard dressed as a private eye investigator! Cuz I can!
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue ballpoint pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue ballpoint pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
2/7/13
Religious tolerance shirt symbol
Did this awhile back for a side project, on the theme of chareidi/dati-leumi/chiloni tolerance and diversity in my city. This was part of a set of ideas for use on a shirt, and my personal favorite of the bunch. AFAIK none were eventually used.
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Labels:
adobe,
black n white,
computer created,
illustrator,
judaism,
professional work,
shirt
2/5/13
Another mystery preview
Labels:
black n white,
hand drawn,
mystery,
personal enjoyment
2/3/13
Today's J. Post cartoon
Israel is refusing to attend the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, where it is an open secret that we'll be widelu and unfairly lambasted. In retaliation, the UNHRC... has rescheduled the session for a later date, entirely missing the point of what's going on. (Fun fact: the US has asked Israel to attend even though they openly agree that we'll get hammered, in order to show goodwill or some such rot.)
UPDATE: Now my third reposting on Brave New World.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
UPDATE: Now my third reposting on Brave New World.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition
Labels:
color,
computer assisted,
israel,
political cartoons,
unwanted nobodies
2/1/13
Fat red oni
Proposed design for a computer game character. Bid not chosen.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue ballpoint pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue ballpoint pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Labels:
adobe,
color,
computer assisted,
illustrator,
monsters
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