Tag: illustration

Hilarious Facebook Portrait Swaps!

I mentioned in an earlier post that I’ve been doing sketches of my Facebook friends. Some of them have drawn me in return, so it’s become a kind of portrait-swap thing, and it’s really fun(ny) to see how very different I look in all my friends’ drawings!

Here are some of the results of the portrait swaps. As you can see, my friends have varying levels of talent, but what matters is that they took the time to draw me and I appreciate their efforts!

Some of them are really fabulous… and some of them just make me laugh (and think to myself, dear G-d, do I really look like that…?)

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You’d never know this was all the same person, would you?

(Except for my nose. My nose looks the same in every single picture. *sigh*)

 

 

Book Cover: Rebbe Nachman’s “Master of Prayer”

I just finished illustrating a story called “The Master of Prayer,” to be published as a 5-volume set by the Breslov Institute.

Here’s the cover that I just completed today:

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Then there are 19 black-and-white illustrations inside the book. Here’s a preview!

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Rebbe Nachman’s stories are parables used to impart deeply spiritual messages, but they read like fairy tales. Kings and queens, demons and dungeons, castles and quests! These elements of magic and fantasy make the illustrations really fun, especially for someone like me who grew up devouring the children’s fantasy section in the library.

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For this book I am using Micron pens for the drawings, and inserting the textured background digitally. This is the fourth book in a set of five, so one more story to go!

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My First Illustrated Book: “Red is my Rimon”

“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work.”  (Henry Moore, English sculptor and artist)

That will explain why I haven’t blogged in a while… or at least makes it sound like I have a professional reason for being a lazy blogger!

But for now, I wanted to share some exciting news… my first illustrated children’s book is due out this fall! It’s called Red is my Rimon: A Jewish Child’s Book of Colors by Dvorah Glick.

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Many, many thanks to all my family and friends for their support and encouragement!