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HoneyThistle — Call to Occupy
Published: 2012-01-13 02:09:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 125; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 4
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This is my very first actual deviantart upload!! So excited! Hubby got the printer/scanner hooked up, and now I can actually upload my doodles!Yay!
I drew this on lined writing paper, not thinking I'd ever actually get the opportunity to share it with anyone other than friends, so when I decided to post it, I opened it up in Paint and erased as many of the lines as possible... that's why there are lines in the girl in front's hair, and other random places... DX
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I love the people on the roof tops!
Interesting that the march is on the sidewalk. I think that's a pretty accurate portrayal of Occupy marches, we tend to stick to the sidewalks as marching in the streets is what really makes the police go on the offensive. I keep seeing it as sort of a sad reflection of america's priorities: cars before democracy, a few people's convenience and luxury (while destroying the environment and helping big business/oil) over the bettering of the whole.
On a more artistic note, I like your emphasis on eyes. And your details on individuals within the crowd. You drew people, with emotion and possible stories, reflecting many different types of people, not just numbers. Nice work, glad you shared this
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I'm so glad you liked it!
The march in Portland was so large that even though we didn't have a permit to protest in the streets, the police realized it would be in everyone's best interests to just rope off boadway and burnside and let us march in the streets anyway. If they hadn't done that, a vast majority of the participants, including myself and my husband, would have stuck to the sidewalks, even though the sheer number of people there would have made that difficult.
It really tickles me that you understood the way I drew the people. I wanted the viewer to have to look into human faces, acknowledge the individuality of each person. I wanted to convey the diversity of people participating in this movement...
Thank you for appreciating my doodle, Meph! It means a lot to me that my first official DA upload has positive feedback...!
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Interesting that the police allowed it in Portland. I would still be a little wary, they seemed to allow protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge in one of the earliest marches of the movement, only to arrest everyone who felt led by the police. I just read about a man in CA who is being charged with "lynching" (of all things), because he was trying to protect a protester from police who was marching on the sidewalk then merely stepped into the street causing him to be arrested. They'll really go to any ridiculous length to silence us it seems.
You did a great job at it. The humanity, especially in those in the foreground, is very clear. And you did a good job demonstrating the diversity. You really captured a lot of what the movement is about in the drawing
I hope to see more drawings now
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