This drawing was done for an article in The Progressive, written by a lady who’s been collecting notes for the past 75 years about the various changes in the environment surrounding her. She discusses the negative and positive influences of man, and sadly mourns the disappearance of the forest and the animals inhabiting it. Couldn’t help thinking of Princess Mononoke when I drew this.

This was a fun little assignment for Tennis Magazine. The article was discussing various methods of overcoming your opponent using different psychological manipulations which can be applied during game. I came up with a few sketches, and we ended up going with the clean and simple solution – where the silhouette of the head is filled with a brain hive of tennis balls.

This was a short turn around job for the israeli magazine Kalkalist. I was called on thursday to come up with sketches for sunday (work day in israel!) and finished illustration for tuesday. The article dealt with the psychological mechanism behind pleasure – what causes pleasure to be generated in the brain. I used the idea of a volume knob to create a conceptual solution and allowed myself to have subtle sexual expression on the girl’s face – though we don’t know for sure what’s causing the pleasure. Come tuesday morning I get a call from the designer – their main article was dropped and they are moving the ‘Pleasure’ article to the cover. they needed a quick cover image – to be done in a few hours. Since we didn’t have much time we decided to go with something iconic that will float in white space and will be in the same vain as the first illustration, fastest cover I ever worked on…

the inside illustration:

cover image:

If your in New York this Friday come say hello at the Society of Illustrators, I will have one illustration up in this fantastic group show with tons of famous illustrators!
No time is more right for this show then now, when oil is still gushing out in the mexican gulf.
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SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS
128 east 63 street new york city
friday, june 4th, 2010
6:00 pm

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tues 10 – 8 wed – fri 10 – 5 sat 12 – 4

In between the minefield of illustration assignments I try to find time to write and draw comics – a place where I usually feel I can express myself more freely. Certain periods are more fertile then others depending on the amount of commissioned work I have and various other factors (for instance – I discovered that my descision to start playing video games again after a 7 year break did not help my level of productivity). In addition to working on self contained short comics I also try to conceive bigger stories. About two years ago I came up with a Vertigo-esque tale called ‘the Carnivore’ – the story of an obsessed food critic who adopts a young girl who looks exactly like his deceased wife. I developed a synopsis, drew a few pages and even made a book cover (below) for the pitch. Alas, nobody picked the bait and the project never got to the next stage.

Browsing through my hard drive the other day I stumbled over the folder with the story material and decided to post the illustration! The color scheme is inspired by a polish film poster from the 60’s or 70’s – I’ll post the image if I find it. I was going for a very nostalgic look since the story was a sort of Hitchcock homage. I was aiming towards an image with high levels of negative space, with the prospect of the book title having plenty of room to float in. Here’s the result: