[5] CEO
THE STORY'S INSPIRATION:
- Trump.
- One of my goals after he was elected was to use art to show how repulsive a person I think he is and how absolutely distraught I was at him being elected. I procrastinated. Not anymore.
- I’m toying with doing more political pieces like this, maybe one a series.
- I wanted to show him as just as an utter pig who think only of himself, is a misogynist, racist, classist bigot.
CONCEPT IMAGERY STARTING POINT:
- I wanted an image that has the facial FEEL of Trump but from the perspective of someone he’s just bilked, or torn from their family
- I wanted it look like he'd look in their eyes
- I also asked the illustrator to start from the perspective of the Obama HOPE poster so we could see it's almost Portrait or Dorian Grey opposite in a surrealist way
CREATIVE PROCESS DEVELOPING THE IMAGERY:
- This went pretty smoothly and there were few iterations
- The challenge was more subtle in making the HOPE poster colors a bit more recognizable
- I really liked the way Trump looks like a carnival mirror monster version. It was exactly what I was going for.
READ: CEO @tomorrowsvig
Weekly illustrated short stories from a Brooklyn writer/art director who is trying to stay anonymous a bit longer.
All work is original, commissioned and art directed by me and designed in collaboration with the artist, Miguel, who'll be featured at the end of the story series he's been completing.
