A good day for Giving

this is an illustration for Purim, its likely to wrap around a box creating a Shaloch Manos container. Shaloch Manos (or Mishloach Manot) is a good will gift givn to a fellow jew on the holiday of Purim.

Men's Mikveh

There's a lot of ritual immersion in the Jewish religion. Men immerse themselves in a Mikveh (ritual pool) before Yom Kippur, some before the sabbath/holidays... new dishes have to be immersed also in a Mikveh of their own called a Keilim Mikveh. Sometimes time is sh...ort and you gotta do what you gotta do... women will send their men to do double duty... immerse yourself and take these dishes with you. Not supposed to happen like that, but sometimes it does. Weird. Don't worry, the dishes get a good scrubbing afterwards :-)...and the ocassional man will step on a stray fork on the bottom of the pool. OY.

Farbrengen

there is a tradition amongst Chabad Chassidim (a certain "sect" of orthodox jews) for men to get together and drink, sing and do some soul searching mostly through storytelling. Occasionally the men will keep time (to the singing) with their fists or palms on the table... but either way, its not exactly delicate... its soulful and hard, and everything on the table jumps.. here it is a simple little mock-up up of a farbrengen:

places

I mostly draw people. Places are amazing to me... but I don't draw them that often. Theyre like a mystery best left untapped..... but I gotta tackle it, specially for professional reasons... so here's one:

Talmud Learning

been looking a lot at bob staake's stuff, and of course like the good natured generous illustrator that he is he dropped some tips, and I picked some up... thanks you!

IF: renewal

midnight animation

a short animation that I made in the wee hours of 10 mornings about how often its just as creative to recognize an idea as it is to come up with a new one