Jonathan and Ori

A customer requested a card for his nephew's Bar Mitzvah. Jonathan, the Bar Mitzvah boy, likes Marvel Comics, science fiction, history, Lego, sports and movies. He also enjoys his Jewish studies classes, and wants to be a movie director when he grows up.

I tried to include as much as I could on his card. The tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) and Magen David (Star of David) in the centre of the card represent his Jewish faith. Moving clockwise, they are surrounded by a Marvel Comic cover, a baseball bat and glove, a history book, a director's chair and clapperboard, and finally, some Lego pieces. A big red number 13, the age when Jewish boys become Bar Mitzvah, completes the card.

Ori recently joined the Israeli army, as all 18 year olds do, for his compulsory military service. His Mum asked me to create a Good Luck card for him showing him wearing his olive green uniform and green beret. Each corps in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has a beret of a different colour. The soldiers only wear them on their heads on formal occasions, such as ceremonies and roll calls. Usually the beret is placed beneath the left shoulder strap while wearing the service uniform, though it is not worn while wearing the combat/work uniform in the field.
I have shown Ori with a gun in his hands. His black leather boots, which most IDF soldiers are issued (some units issue reddish-brown leather boots for historical reasons) are next to him, and the badge of the unit he was joining is featured too.