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Election season fanart

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:55 am
by Steve the Pocket
Caricature has never been my forte, and insisting I make the characters super-cartoony doesn't help a whole lot (though the Simpsons guys seem to pull it off pretty well).

Image
(deviantART just because)

I know what you're all thinking...

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:17 am
by Comrade K
It works. Except for Palin. I'm not even trying to be funny here, but she never looks friendly. There's always this smug glare that she has more than any other politician I've seen.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:26 am
by Mista_B
Neat! And agreed about Palin - it'd work better if you made her look a lot more angry, or maybe... not angry, but like, looking like she knows she's better than you. Sneering,I think is the word I'm looking for. I think that's actually the only facial expression she has, or at least that I've ever seen from her.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:14 pm
by GeorgiaCoyote
Sneering,I think is the word I'm looking for. I think that's actually the only facial expression she has, or at least that I've ever seen from her.
That would be the word you're looking for. In my opinion thought, it seems that when one spends enough time in the realm of politics, the seemingly friendly expression always comes across as a "know-it-all" grin. Even Obama's seems that way to an extent. At any rate though, great job.

Re: Election season fanart

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:38 pm
by Tom Flapwell
I know what you're all thinking...
Do you? I'm thinking that Biden looks like a slim version of McCain. I'm also thinking, "Yay, more cute Octan art!"

Re: Election season fanart

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:03 pm
by VenM2
"Yay, more cute Octan art!"
Ditto. Never really into politics but I still like Octan Art.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:59 pm
by nickspoon
It's Obamadorable.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:28 pm
by Tom Flapwell
BTW, doesn't "fanart" imply that you like all four of them?

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:44 pm
by Dr. Dos
As a regular reader of SA's Mallard Fillmore Megathread, that's far better than most professional political cartoonists.

I mean, you didn't even have to label them.

http://img.waffleimages.com/b8737eaf2f1 ... 08_low.jpg

Re: Election season fanart

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:13 pm
by Shinigetsu
I realy like this. I usualy hate gradient backgrounds.
I make the characters super-cartoony
giving them five fingers would be the only change that I would make to fix that.

Re: Election season fanart

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:02 pm
by nickspoon
I realy like this. I usualy hate gradient backgrounds.
I only just noticed that the background looks kind of French.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:12 am
by Osideboy
Can I make suggestion? Why not make them all anthro in the same way DCS does in his strips? Perhaps make Obama a lizard (Reptiles = Black people in O&M World), Biden a wolf, McCain a weasel, and Palin a fox. Just a suggestion.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:45 am
by nickspoon
Can I make suggestion? Why not make them all anthro in the same way DCS does in his strips? Perhaps make Obama a lizard (Reptiles = Black people in O&M World), Biden a wolf, McCain a weasel, and Palin a fox. Just a suggestion.
Not everything has to be furry. Thanks.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:48 pm
by Ibun
(Reptiles = Black people in O&M World)
NIGGER LIZARDS.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:53 pm
by Arloest
Llewellyn is black! I KNEW IT!