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.