Just got my hands on the new issue of Odyssey magazine, which cover I illustrated.
This issue’s subject is The Pursuit of Happiness - a very interesting subject indeed!
While working on this commission I listened to all of The Smiths albums, in order to get in the appropriate energetic mood (although I had to pay for my fun later that night, trying to fall asleep while at least three Smiths songs play in my head non-stop and all at once).
Ahh… the perils of being an illustrator.
PS. On the top right corner of the image above you can see the sketchbook spread the cover was based on (or as posted here on February)
This is my latest editorial illustration, for the Yom-Kippur section of Ha’aretz newspaper.
The article, by Vered Lee, tells the story of the first all-women bank robbery in Israel. It’s a pretty interesting story – you can read it here (Hebrew only, sorry…).
I like this illustration very much, because I had so much fun working on it. I watched Dog Day Afternoon while working, to get in the mood (I think that what gave it that 70′s feel :)
A new editorial I worked on last week, for the Health section of Ha’aretz newspaper.
The article was about a new trend emerging in medical care, trying to make patients more involved in the decision-making process of their healing.
I did this small illustration a while back, for the June/July issue of NYLON magazine.
It was for an item about a new book collecting the works of thirty young + promising writers. Actually, the book cover is really cute (below left), they could have just used that, no?
(not a smart business move on my part writing that, I know :)
Today I got my copies of the July issue of NYLON magazine, which is ‘the music issue’.
It looks really great, but I’m too excited to read it right now, because my illustration is in it.
I kind of hate how it turned out, but I try to understand I’m not objective right now, with my strange, dark mood. Anyway, this is the illustration: I did another version in ink, because I wasn’t sure the pencil is strong enough:
But the guys at NYLON preferred the pencil version. Here is the actual spread:
My name is Keren Taggar, an illustrator from Tel Aviv, Israel. This is sort of a sketchbook blog, a place for me to publish things I have nowhere else to show, and also a daily drawn diary.
Just got my hands on the new issue of Odyssey magazine, which cover I illustrated.
