Month: February 2017

Hansel and Gretel:

 

 

The Little Mermaid:

 

 

Little Red Riding Hood:

 

 

Pinocchio:

 

Snow White:

 

When I put my illustrations together I started with the image below as the finished outcome. Althought I liked the idea of the wall and the composition was working well for me there were a few things which needed altering. I made the table legs black to balance the other black in the image and created a wooden flooring and striped wallpaper, this added more detail and made the image more interesting. I then tried playing with colour using hue and saturation, playing with the idea that the image would potentially be black and white too. I tried placing in a window as well to give more of an idea about the room Trump was in but it didn’t add anything so I replaced it with more posters to reinforce the image of Trump. I didn’t want to depict Trump in the oval office or superior but wanted him to seen normal and almost obsessed in a very modest room surrounded by motivation sayings and things to big up his ego.

For my Pinocchio fairytale I am going to imagine Pinochio in modern day life as Donald Trump. Trump is known for his twitter rants and the constant promises and statements he makes on it, he is the only president to keep his own twitter account and still post on it every  day during his presidency.

He has only 7 million followers on Twitter with the majority of them being his supporters. In my fairytale, I want to poke fun at this idea – that he only won his election because he was hidden behind his computer screen ranting and promising on twitter so no one could see his nose growing bigger with all the lies he was telling, that his promises weren’t in fact promises at all.

Trump is nowadays always seen in his dark blue suit with a red tie and white shirt. His bright yellow hair and unnaturally tanned face has always been something the public have made fun of, he is almost a comical figure in that sense. These features were all something I wanted to include in my illustrations.

I didn’t want to display Pinocchio (Trump) in the Oval office but more of a plain room sat by his desk ranting on twitter with posters, pictures and slogans on the wall surrounding him – all things he loves/believes in/says etc. Almost like a Ego Wall, something he looks at whilst on his twitter rant which spurs him on to continue making empty promises and saying things he thinks his supporters would like to hear. I think making the rest of the space he is in quite plain would suit the illustration well, it would bring focus to the posters on the wall and make his ego look even bigger.

To begin, I started by drawing Trump himself and getting an idea of his facial features, his side profile and his hair. This I found much more entertaining than I thought I would.

I liked the collaged face as the brightness of the hair and his tanned face were depicted well using this medium, it adds nice texture to the illustration. I preferred the crayon suit instead of the watercolour one too because of the texture if gives.

Next I started to draw and paint the desk and computer he would be using. I tried out different styles of furniture and mediums to see what worked best.

After this, I started to create the elements which would go on the wall behind him. These would all be edited and coloured on Photoshop. I wanted these to take the piss out of Trump and humour the viewer.

To reinforce Trump and his controversial beliefs I wanted the background wall behind him to consist of posters and memorabilia which supported the type of person he is and his main political points. I wanted it to be very republican and self-absorbed with multiple framed photos of himself up on the wall surrounded by his favourite sayings and things. I hoped this would create more intricate detail within the illustration and entertain the viewer as they examined the different areas and be humoured with variety of messages.

Pinocchio is a bit different from my other illustrations as it focuses on a particular person rather than a social media action like the others, however I saw portraying Pinocchio as a politician as the most exciting way to retell the fairytale. I hoped illustrating Trump would make viewers smile and it would also be more fitting for modern day news. From his discriminative views and his adoration in Putin to his love for Mike Pence and his determination to make Mexico pay for a wall, I wanted to make fun of all of the things he so strongly believed in and took so seriously.

Donald John  Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Trump received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, he took charge of his family’s real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was later renamed The Trump Organization. During his business career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and has lent the use of his name in the branding of various products. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted The Apprentice, a reality television series on NBC. As of 2016, Forbes listed him as the 324th wealthiest person in the world and 113th richest in the United States, with a net worth of $4.5 billion.

16 Things To Know About Donald trump:

Trump received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 for his work on The Apprentice.

After college, he worked for his father’s company and convinced him to develop and expand real estate opportunities. According to Trump’s biography, his father often said, “everything my son touches seems to turn to gold.”

Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a degree in Economics in 1968. He also attended Fordham University.

After getting into some trouble in grade school, Trump’s parents sent him to the New York Military Academy. Other graduates of NYMA include Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Sondheim and John Gotti Jr.

Trump has never held a public office. He is the first president to be elected without a career stopover in government or the military.

At one point his building, the Trump World Tower, was the largest residential building in the world. It’s 90 stories high.

Trump once insulted former President Ronald Reagan in his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal.”  He said “only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.”

He was involved in the “birther” movement that questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States, though he acknowledged in September that the President was likely born here.

Trump believes that “a nation without borders is not a nation.” His immigration solution includes building a wall across the southern border of the United States.

He is #405 on Forbes list of the world’s billionaires for 2015. Forbes reported his net worth is $4.1 billion. Trump stated the magazine was incorrect and that his actual net worth was $11.5 billion.  

Trump is the first Republican president-elect to have put forward proposals on child care. He plans to allow families to deduct child care costs from their taxes and has proposed six weeks maternity leave for biological mothers.

Top priorities for Trump’s first 100 days in office include: limiting congressional terms, renegotiating NAFTA, repealing Obamacare and enacting a “multi-trillion dollar” tax cut.

Trump has frequently described global warming as a “hoax.” He plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and reconsider the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide is a harmful pollutant.

Trump won as a Republican, but he has been affiliated with other political parties including the Reform Party (1999 to 2001), the Democratic Party (2001 to 2009) and the Independent Party (2011 to 2012).

He is currently married to Melania Trump, with whom he has one child (Barron, who is 10). The future First Lady is a former Slovenian model. Trump has four other children (Donald, Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany) from previous marriages.

Trump’s Main Points:

Trump announced his candidacy with the promise “to build a great, great wall on our southern border” and “have Mexico pay for that wall,” and has repeated the call with conviction and consistency.

A ban from Muslims entering the USA until he ‘figures out what is going on’.

“I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (and) I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers”. He aims to reduce taxes and lower company regulations too.

Impose tariffs on goods made in Mexico and China.

Renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership

‘Full repeal of Obamacare’ and replace it with a market-based alternative

‘Bomb’ and/or ‘take the oil’ from ISIS

Defund planned parent hood.

Bring back waterboarding, which the Obama administration considers torture. Trump has said he’s willing to use interrogation techniques that go even further than waterboarding. Even if such tactics don’t work, “they deserve it anyway, for what they’re doing.”

“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Trump says cities like Reno, Nev., will “be a big fat beautiful beneficiary” of these new jobs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/here-are-76-of-donald-trumps-many-campaign-promises/?utm_term=.1cb397273f3f

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/16-donald-trumps-most-controversial-statements

Close ups:

After lots of rough sketches at the beginning of my project, I started with the idea of depicting a real Queen in a castle looking at her phone – this however didn’t take into account the idea of a modern day setting and it was an undeveloped idea. From this, I began to think about modernising the story and making the character a teenage ‘queen bee’. I played around with textures and colours for my final designs before deciding on a outcome, I thought the textured and patterns background added to the detail and character of the illustration.

Retold Fairytale: For Snow White’s fairytale I wanted to retell the story from a different perspective, the evil Queen’s. Today some young adults are obsessed with social media and as I spoke about earlier, dopamine is released everytime we get a like or a new follower and it makes us feel good. This has caused some social media users to have an obsession with how many likes and followers they are receiving. Bringing this back to Snow White in a modern day setting, I wanted to depict the Queen as being one of these obsessed social media users. She is teenage girl called ‘Queenie’, she is queen bee, she’s very popular and gets jealous or angry at anyone who she sees as a threat to her social media status. Instead of a mirror the Queen looks a iPhone to see who is the fairest in the land but to her anger she sees that it is not her but Snow White who has 8.3 million followers and is loved by all, this makes her envious and bitter which in the end as we know from the original fairytale, will be her ultimate downfall. This fairytale I hope will bring awareness that things like how many followers you have or how many likes you are getting doesn’t matter. Don’t worry about it as you don’t want to turn out like the evil Queen in Snow White – bitter, jealous and twisted.

I wanted to depict the Queen as a teenage girl in her bedroom, surrounded by posters like ‘keep calm and stay lush’ and photos of her and her friends – implying she is popular, the queen bee and likes it that way. As she looks an Snow White’s Instagram account and take in how many followers she has and how great her posts are, she gets jealous and annoyed  that she is more popular than her. I created the illustration around her make up dresser, reinforcing the idea that she is obsessed with beauty and vainity. Using watercolour, waxed crayon, fine liner and felt tip I experimented with mediums to find the right mediums I wanted to use. in my final illustration.