This is a pretty old piece, and sometimes I wonder why did I even put it on the site. It’s not that remarkable. The thing is, one day, I was googling “rouge”, or “rouge x-men” or whatever, and this painting was in the first result page of the images. I think I now keep it on the site for the honor of it only.

I don’t know why, but whenever I look at this drawing I can’t help but think that she turned out very similar to Geri Halliwell. I don’t even know how true it is, but it sort of got stuck in my head. Actually, this piece had no model, and the face was mainly determined by the combination of a texturized paper and my lack of experience. I find her cocky and sweet at the same time.

This is a classical “Never leave the face to the end”. I liked it much better before I added the face, though it’s pretty nice now too.

The final project of illustrating course in “Minshar” art college was a fascinating one. We had a class competition designing a poster for an opera and the winner’s design gets to be the real poster of that opera! cool. The opera people said they want something young and different, so after some pondering around, I went wild. Anyway, I assumed it’s more just that someone that actually will make a living from this will win, so I could feel free. The opera is Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”. By the way, the opera’s people didn’t like it claiming it was “too young and different”. whatever…

This is the third T-shirt I designed for OKAY (Israeli comic book collectors and readers). The idea was someone else’s, I don’t remember who. it says: “OKAY – because comics isn’t a child’s game”. The father is reading Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s “Y-the last man” and the kid is reading “The Barker”, paraphrazing on the name of an Israeli daily economics newspaper called “the Marker”.

A computer enhanced cutout piece, I couldn’t place on any other gallery. I like it – it’s a nice cutout work – and the digital background gives it a nice twist.

This comics page was drawn during July 2006 for the “comicsralla” exhibition after the second Lebanese war. It’s a humorously take on the old Christian TV shows of our 80′s childhood. During the 80′s Israel had only one TV channel – the other two we could watch were Jordan and Lebanon – and our strongest memory from the Lebanese channel was definitely the cartoons (and specifically “The Flying House” among them).

After making the “not for men only” shirt design , someone brought up the idea of this shirt, under the title: “Comics – a legendary collection”. It was a great pleasure working on it, specially making the covers of the books (each represents a real title and some of my favorite ones are there). There’s even a hidden message within the covers, for Marc Evanier and Sergio Aragones’ fans.

I always thought that Marvel Girl’s outfit was not brought to it’s potential. That’s a tiny mini skirt, worn by a woman we know should be very attractive. I decided to stop with flat colors, because the shaded version just didn’t fit. So, there she is – marvelous, isn’t she?

“How quickly can you color a simple sketch?” He asked, and I took the challenge. If I remember correctly, it took me 45 minutes to scan and paint this. Not a very impressive result, but after all, it is cute. Isn’t it so?