Recently I was approached by Applause App Inc. about doing an illustration of Paul Revere for the entrance to their Digital XChange 2018 conference in Boston, MA.
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Here it is installed in the entryway to the Paul Revere hotel:
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Living in Massachusetts made getting references images pretty easy. A colleague of mine was willing to dress up in her fife and drum gear so that I could snap some photos. Thanks for that, Sherrie.
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The first version was mostly black and white and admittedly looked a little ghoulish. A second pass helped tweak Paul Revere so that he looked a bit more lively.
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Outline mode and all shapes selected.
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