Here’s another Trump caricature designed for shutterstock. It’s a scene that he repeats regularly, whenever he signs something. So, I figure it should be useful for future political articles. I was careful not to make it offensive. That way it got past the shutterstock censors easily.
So, I finally got some information I needed yesterday about shutterstock’s rules for stock image submissions.
I have several celebrity caricature and political cartoons that I want to sell for stock images, but they can only be sold for editorial use because they’re images of real people rather than fictional characters and I don’t have a model release. Istock won’t allow illustrations to be sold as editorial stock, but shutterstock allows this, which is just what I needed.
I had a few cartoons and caricatures of Donald Trump, one of which was clearly offensive and kept getting rejected when I submitted it. I suspected it was being rejected due to being offensive, but they never said that. They kept saying they didn’t like my description or the keywords. I gave up on it for awhile, but I tried again a few days ago and I finally got a response that it was rejected due to being an offensive subject.
Which is fair.
It’s also what I needed to know.
My new Trump caricature (below) is very neutral. It’s not quite complementary, but it isn’t offensive at all. I figure this one should easily pass shutterstock’s censors and, based on my sales of my other Trump images, it should sell reasonably well also.
[Edit: Trump Golfing is now available on shutterstock.]
Here’s another Donald Trump caricature. I think the last one turned out better, but this one’s okay. I don’t think I got his face quite Trump-y enough, but he’s still recognizable so I’m calling it done.
This one’s inspired, of course, both by his iconic catch-phrase and by his recent firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
There are plenty of perfectly nice donkeys in
the world, but this guy is a braying jackass.
Various bits of recent politics inspired me to draw this elephant yesterday.
Maybe I shouldn’t sketch while listening to political news.
I like him, though. Sort of feel sorry for him. Poor guy.
Here’s a caricature portrait of Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The background came from a NASA photo (public domain) of a spiral galaxy. I sort of gave him a cosmic halo because it amused me. 
Since it’s a celebrity portrait, I can only sell rights to it for editorial or limited personal use. Contact me directly for more information.
I love our president and I’m voting for him. But geez… Not the best performance in the debates despite Romney giving him SO many openings.
I was just playing with fonts and brushes for no readily apparent reason and I came up with this. Guess what cable comedy news show I was watching today. 🙂
The fonts are RubberStamp-Extended, Liberate, and Rosewood Std. I didn’t create the fonts.
Actually, it did serve a purpose. I really was experimenting with some new brush techniques and trying a couple tricks with manipulating fonts. I learned some stuff.
Fact Checking
GOP Elephant: No one will believe a liberal media puppet.
Pinocchio (measuring elephant’s nose): I got no strings. I’m an independent.
Also in black & white.
This is an all-purpose cartoon suitable for any gaff Joe Biden might make during his tenure as Vice President. Not really very funny. Mostly I just wanted to try to draw him. Conclusion: I can’t draw Joe Biden. He isn’t interesting in any way, shape, or form. There’s nothing to characature. He just comes out as a generic, white, old guy. *sigh*
I actually searched the web for cartoons of him and you know what? No one knows how to draw him. If the cartoonist tends to give his characters big chins, Biden gets a big chin. If they usually give their characters a big nose, he gets a big nose. But none of the cartoons really look like him like they usually do with other celebs. Even the big-name political cartoonists just come up with something that looks like a generic, white, old guy.
Anyhow, here’s my attempt:
