Making A Golem

Mitchell Grant Hawley
3 min readFeb 19, 2021

I’M REVISITING THIS ILLUSTRATION I MADE IN OCTOBER OF 2018 TO CELEBRATE ITS TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND SHARE ITS STORY.

A Golem comes from a medieval Jewish tale about a creature being formed out of clay and dirt into a sentient being. The word Golem means “incomplete” or “embryo” and is able to do things when imbued with the Hebrew alphabet. I’m not a scholar…

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Mitchell Grant Hawley
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Illustrator based out of Austin, Tx. @snailclub