Unfortunately, for personal and medical reasons, I have decided to step back from accepting new commissions for the time being. You can certainly still send me inquiries if you like, but I’m not planning to accept any outside work for now. I will update when/if this changes.
I’m still happy to sell rights to existing work. Just contact me for the details.
Yesterday I received the following scam inquiry through my website’s contact form. (I’ll explain why it’s a scam below.) Has anyone else seen this one?
Name:
Elizabeth WolfsonEmail:
info@throwbrands.storeMessage:
Hello
I hope this message finds you well.
My name is Elizabeth Wolfson, and I am a Human Resources | Organizational Development at The Row. After reviewing your profile on Behance, We believe your skills and experience align well with our needs for an Digital Art. We are currently seeking a remote (full-time/freelance) creative individual to join our team.
I would like to invite you to an interview via Microsoft Teams to discuss the position further and to get to know you better. At Alexander Wang, We are always looking to grow our team with talented and creative individuals who can help us achieve great things together.
Please let me know if you’re available for an interview. If so, I would be happy to coordinate via Microsoft Teams using the following link:
https://teams.live.com/l/invite/FDAt4arZR2MkTVbAAM?v=g1
OR
live:.cid.ac501b3f24141ffc
The work hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm. The position offers a competitive salary of $60 – $125.00 per hour, with availability for full-time, part-time, or freelance work.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Wolfson
Human Resources
Organizational Development
At The Row
The first indicator that this is a scam is that I don’t actually have a Behance account. Nothing wrong with it, but it’s just not a social media that I use. So, she very well did NOT see my profile on Behance. However, Karen Jones is not exactly an uncommon name. So, maybe that other children’s illustrator named Karen Jones (yes, there is one) has a Behance profile and she’s got me mixed up with her.
Second, she mentions “At Alexander Wang…” which I assume is a copy/paste error. She has another version of this email set up as if it’s from Alexander Wang, and she swapped it out for The Row. But missed one mention. BTW, The Row is a company started by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Alexander Wang is a completely different, completely unrelated fashion house. So, it’s not like they’re two names for the same family of companies.
Third is just a typo. “We believe your skills and experience align well with our needs for an Digital Art.” Should be “a digital artist” to make sense. On it’s own, not a flag at all. People make typos. But it just looks like a copy/paste error.
Fourth is the domain on her email. She should have stuck with a gmail address, frankly. It would have looked less suspicious. (Still a little suspicious, but not as much as throwbrands.store looks.) So, the actual domain name for The Row is, unsurprisingly, therow.com. Looking closer, Elizabeth’s version is throw brands dot store. Not even the row brands dot store. I went to ICANN and looked up Elizabeth’s throwbrands.store domain. It says the registry was created “2025-09-29 20:11:39 UTC”. As I post this, it’s October 2, 2025. So, she only just recently created the domain. Not what we’d expect from a fashion house founded in 2006.
I am not going to touch those Microsoft Teams links with a ten-foot pole.
So, people. Don’t get caught by this one. Elizabeth Wolfson certainly is a predator, and us artists are her prey.
I just finished some work for Positive Promotions.
They had detailed sketches (created in-house) that they wanted me to finish off into vector graphics for an exercise booklet they were doing. They were good sketches. I think, with very little finishing, they could have just used the sketches in the final project. The problem was that the sketches were line drawings, which was not the style they wanted. So, that’s where I came in.
I used their sketches, took the color palette from their samples, and redrew them in the art style that they wanted. Not my usual work, but I think they came out well. And, more importantly, the client was happy.
Created using Adobe Illustrator.
For personal reasons, I needed an image of a hockey stop and I wasn’t happy with the clip art options I was finding in the usual places one finds clipart. So, I made my own in Adobe Illustrator. It’s a little quick and dirty. You might notice that the two skates are just copies of each other, for example. (I really should have drawn a unique second skate at a slightly different angle. And maybe added a shadow.) But it still gets the point across better than the clipart I was finding.
This image is available on Shutterstock here: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/skaters-hockey-skates-while-they-perform-2571104179
I just completed a new hidden picture puzzle for Jennifer Newbold, a client who plans to send it out with her Christmas cards this year. All the hidden items are things that have meaning for her family this year. I didn’t get an explanation for all of them, but for one example, the family took a special trip to Canada this summer. So, she wanted to hide a Canadian flag.
As always, I am open for commissions.
Here’s another vector illustration for children’s magician, Jimmy Joza. It will be printed on an 18-inch silk. It goes with the previous butterfly illustration and will be a prop in his act. He originally had another caterpillar image he was going to use for this, but he encountered some problems with the size and vibrance of that image. So, he decided to come back and commission me to draw a whole new caterpillar to use instead.
Because the butterfly was drawn in the style of the original caterpillar, this new caterpillar is also drawn in the same style. So as not to step on the previous artist’s intellectual property, this one uses an entirely different pose, a bit of a different face, different expression, different back spots, and a different approach to the construction of the body.
It was a really fun one to work on.
I recently completed a little illustration for children’s magician, Jimmy Joza. This butterfly was drawn in Adobe Illustrator. (Yes, I can work with vectors!) He plans to have it printed on a 36-inch silk and use as a prop in his act. He has an existing caterpillar image he plans to print on another silk, and he wanted me to match the art style of that one so that it was clear the two images were the same character. He also had a sample butterfly with rainbow colors that he wanted me to use as a color scheme for the wings. Here’s what I came up with!
This is the last image from a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. This is in the morning by the Sea of Galilee. After Jesus had helped his disciples catch a miraculously large haul of fish (153 of them!) they roasted some and lounged around on the beach eating a breakfast of bread and fish.
Image 8 in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. After his resurrection, Jesus met two disciples on the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
This is the seventh image in a short series for Menno Media for their Shine curriculum. He’s alive again! Here we have Jesus resurrected and interacting with Mary Magdalene outside his open tomb.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 