Artwork & Words © Richard Ewing all rights reserved

Artwork & Words © Richard Ewing all rights reserved

Monday, December 19, 2011

If ...sink

The "Great Humanitarian" Herbert Hoover couldn't have been more well-liked when elected president in 1928 winning nearly 60% of the popular vote... but after the stock market crash in 1929 his popularity sank market-ly.
~so to speak~
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4 comments:

  1. Poor Mr. Hoover. At least he built a damn to help the unemployed. He's looking very sheepish here – or rather, like a snail retreating into it's protective shell. Not an easy carickature to pull off, or out, er, I mean in. I like that you push the boundaries, yet your subjects remain recognizable. Keep 'em coming!

    Who are the subjects in your thumbnails?

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  2. It looks as if he trying to escape into obscurity but that he can't quite disappear. I love the way his coat seems to be swallowing him up. It is a difficult thing to pull off, sinking vs rising and I think that I understand why you rejected your first drawing

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  3. Yeah, usually you can use the expectation of gravity's direction to help differentiate sinking from rising, but in the first sketch there was no sense of movement at all... ~~it just looked like he was too small for his clothes. There needed to be a contrasting push against his sinking head, and the large collar just make him look like a Herb-in-the-Box.
    The final composition uses the shoulders as foil for the head~drop and I think it works, finally, but it sure took a long time to get Mr. Hoover and his head in sync...


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  4. B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l ! (and clever)


    Merry Christmas to you, Richard !!!

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