It literally looks like him!

A fellow member of the Facebook group IWEN, which stands for Israeli Women Entrepreneurs' Network, contacted me and asked me to make a special card for her son's 18th birthday. His interests over the years have included Minecraft, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and whittling, she told me. She also sent me a photograph of her son so that I could get his goatee just right.

I was asked to include all of her son's interests on his card, plus the number 18 to mark his age. It was a special birthday and "we are so grateful to reach this day. Thank you for helping us do it in style." she wrote to me.
I have shown her son, goatee and all, whittling a piece of wood. I made sure to include his black kippa (skullcap) and showed him wearing the very same green T-shirt he was wearing in the photograph my customer sent me. To his right is a green Minecraft Creeper (yes, I just looked that up!) and some Dungeons & Dragons dice (I knew about those because my son was once into it). On his left are some random Magic: The Gathering cards. Apparently he has quite a collection. I added the logos of these three brands on the card too.

I was more than delighted to read this post by my customer in the IWEN group some days later:

"I need to sing out my praises for Lisa Isaacs!
Yesterday was my son's 18th birthday, and for those of you who don't know, he's been through a LOT of scary medical stuff, and his 18th birthday needed to be CELEBRATED!
Not only did Lisa create a portrait that literally looks like him (!) but I forgot to tell her what to include until last minute, and she did a rush job, AND she found a shaliach [messenger] to bring it to me in Beit Shemesh (thank you, C.!)
Creative genius plus customer service that went above and beyond - I cannot recommend Lisa highly enough!"

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