Occupy Graphix

Here are two related graphics I've created over the last several months for various Occupy Wall Street events. Feel free to use them for anything you like :)  ...read below & you'll see that I have no real ownership over the image, anyway!

Read below the jump to learn how I made them...


Basically, the image is a rip-off of another drawing:

I don't know who did it, but someone put it on one of our early flyers & I liked the look of it, but it looks like we're Mexican peasants or something, so I traced a bunch of faces from various Occupy Wall Street photographs by putting a piece of paper over my laptop's screen:

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(haha the first time I did the black guy's face it came out really bad and clownish-looking!)

Then I used photoshop to put these drawn faces over the campesino faces, modified their clothes, touched up the background & altered some of the figures a little bit. This step takes much more time than you might think (several hours, and I'm pretty good at it), but it's really important...and voila!