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I wanted to share here my process of illustrating an article for children's magazine " Einayim ". My experience in an illustration area isn't very large, every time I work on illustration I feel like I'm inventing myself again and again. The article was about so called “social justice revolution”, which happened in Israel during the last summer. My first references for the illustration was some sketches I drew earlier at the "tent city" at Rothschild: I also found some photographs I did the pencil sketch and started to work on final illustration, trying to keep the spirit of spontaneous sketches I liked it during the process, but at the end... the spontaneous feeling is disappeared. Maybe I should stop earlier ;-) final illustration in the magazine - click on it for a bigger size! I would love hear about your process! What are your references, steps, techniques, feelings and etc.

One of the first things my youngest daughter and me did when we came back from the vacation was visiting local falafel shop. After all that delicious french dishes nothing bring you back better than these crispy balls with hummus and pickles. Yummy!

Hanukah is over, and we're back to routine. Here are some sketches I did during our family vacation. We went to LaPlange, village at Alps, for some ski and fresh snow and it was fantastic! Sorry, but the only sketches I've drawn were while being at a taxi - an airport, airplane, and bus. It was too pity to sketch when I had a week only for skiing. my kids at the airplane Nuni's having a meal - it's fun! Shai and Shelly - listening to their music

Marina Grechanik Artist, Illustrator, Urban Sketcher, Art Educator Hello, my name is Marina Grechanik, I graduated from an Art College in Mink, Belorussia. I’m an illustrator, artist, urban sketcher, art educator and owner of an art studio in Jaffa. I would always draw and sketch from time to time. There were some periods in my life when I didn’t have ‘proper’ time for my "art", running between job and family. Then I decided to put a sketchbook into my bag and to draw between my daily tasks. Little by little I filled one sketchbook and then another one. Sketching became part of me, part of my way of experiencing my daily routine. 12 years ago I was invited by the founder of Urban Sketchers Gabi Campanario to be one of the 100 correspondents from all over the world on the  USk blog . Few years after that I initiated the  USk Israel group  - regularly leading sketchcrawls, coordinating the Urban Sketchers Israel blog and organized and curated a few group exhibitio...