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.
Inktober #27
This is a request from ladystormcrow on tumblr. She wanted the Invisible Man choosing a Halloween costume. So, I gave him the best costume. 🙂
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.
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.
Alternate lines for the flies (Fly 2 would need it’s upper left arm propped on it’s waist instead of it’s current position):
Fly 1: I wish I knew who was telling the truth.
Fly 2: They both are.
Fly 1: I wish I knew who was telling the truth.
Fly 2: Oh come on. You know which one produces the most shit.
Someone pulled a bumper sticker off my car while it was in a parking lot. How rude! However, I’m not sure it had the effect that the person intended.
As you may have guessed, it was a political bumper sticker. Nothing offensive. It was just an old Obama 2008 sticker.
See what you made me buy, Mr. Bumper Sticker Thief?
I can only assume that some conservative Republican pulled it off because they don’t like Obama. But let’s think about this for a minute. If you pull a bumper sticker off my car, then I have to replace it. In the case of an Obama sticker, that means paying Obama’s campaign fund to send me a new one. Which means that, because of this person’s actions, I just donated five dollars to Obama’s re-election campaign which I otherwise would not have. I can only speculate that this was not the result that this person was going for.
As a side note, I also had a Darwin fish magnet on my car which they didn’t even touch, which puzzles me. I always thought that was far more offensive than the Obama one. After all, the campaign sticker just supports the Democratic candidate. The Darwin fish insults Creationists.
People are strange.
Image of the rear of a car with 3 bumper stickers.
A Christian fish, a “Support our Troops” ribbon, and a “Don’t Tax Me” sticker.
