pencils :: over and out

asaf :: since the art supply store where I used to buy my inking paper had closed down and replaced by a sunglasses shop, I failed to find a decent illustration paper in tel aviv. while drowning in despair I decided I had it with materials that run out on you - paper, ink, pencils, erasures etc. no more scanning, enlarging, reducing, lightboxing and washing brushes.

this illustration was done for a piece about women's tendency to admire the handy-man type of guy. the sketches done directly on the computer may lack the instant charm of pencil, but contained enough details to show the overall idea.



working on the final I was glad to rediscover all the advantages of the computer. like ctrl-z while inking. the only thing missing though is those small black spots on your fingers after a hard day of work.

The Beast :: a Scholastic Book Cover

tomer :: this book by Walter Dean Myers is about a Harlem high-school senior who goes off to a prep school in Connecticut while he's Dominican girl friend Gabby, whom he intend to marry, stays behind. when he returns on Christmas break he's heartbroken to discover that she has begun to use "the beast": drugs. the AD felt we should concentrate on the couple's relationships- they are very much in love but the ties that hold them together are under a threat. I wanted to show him 'through' her, so she is hiding a part of him but they are one shape protected from it's environment.

AMERICAN VERTIGO

asaf :: A quick quarter page for the Wall St. Journal, for a review of Bernard-Henri LEvy new book AMERICAN VERTIGO. from the article "The reader gets a chance to see how America looks to a European who is not unfriendly and who speaks with the verve and confidence of a philosopher who can write and a journalist who can think."


the sketches are opposite interpretations for the same idea - writing about america from within, while being an outsider. the AD decided to go with the crowded scene, I was mostly happy to work in black and white for a change.