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Here's an illustration of a police officer in uniform. This is the last illustration for the set of images depicting people in recognizable professions. This was made as part of a larger commission for the children's educational publisher Learning A-Z.

One detail when drawing police for the children's market is that you want to be careful about depicting guns. This might sound like a silly concern to have, but children's publishing tends to be very sensitive about showing weapons. Particularly for the younger age ranges. Normally you just wouldn't draw guns at all, but police in America are pretty much always armed. It would be weird to show them with an empty belt. It just wouldn't quite look like a cop. But you also don't want to show the weapon too blatantly for your audience. To solve this problem, I like to draw police officers turned slightly away from the viewer so that their hip holster is on the far side, either partially or completely hidden from view. In this case, she's facing the viewer almost full-on, but her hand position obscures those blocky items on her belt. Undoubtedly one of those is her firearm, but it's not too obvious.
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[Image Description: A cartoon illustration of an Indigenous American or Alaskan Native woman in a police uniform. She's standing facing the viewer, both hands casually holding onto her belt buckle. Her uniform includes a short-sleeved light blue button-down shirt, black pants, black shoes, and a traditional police hat. She has various accessories on her uniform including a small walkie-talkie attached to her shoulder, a badge, shoulder patches, and a body camera. Her forearms and hands obscure several bulky items on her belt, making it difficult to identify them specifically. Her long hair is in two braids down her back.

The image is watermarked with the artist's logo and a line of text noting the client's copyright as, "Copyright (c) 2022 Learning A-Z. All rights reserved." /Image Description]

Description

Here's an illustration of a police officer in uniform. This is the last illustration for the set of images depicting people in recognizable professions. This was made as part of a larger commission for the children's educational publisher Learning A-Z.

One detail when drawing police for the children's market is that you want to be careful about depicting guns. This might sound like a silly concern to have, but children's publishing tends to be very sensitive about showing weapons. Particularly for the younger age ranges. Normally you just wouldn't draw guns at all, but police in America are pretty much always armed. It would be weird to show them with an empty belt. It just wouldn't quite look like a cop. But you also don't want to show the weapon too blatantly for your audience. To solve this problem, I like to draw police officers turned slightly away from the viewer so that their hip holster is on the far side, either partially or completely hidden from view. In this case, she's facing the viewer almost full-on, but her hand position obscures those blocky items on her belt. Undoubtedly one of those is her firearm, but it's not too obvious.
Source: wp.me/pLP9Y-5a5

[Image Description: A cartoon illustration of an Indigenous American or Alaskan Native woman in a police uniform. She's standing facing the viewer, both hands casually holding onto her belt buckle. Her uniform includes a short-sleeved light blue button-down shirt, black pants, black shoes, and a traditional police hat. She has various accessories on her uniform including a small walkie-talkie attached to her shoulder, a badge, shoulder patches, and a body camera. Her forearms and hands obscure several bulky items on her belt, making it difficult to identify them specifically. Her long hair is in two braids down her back.

The image is watermarked with the artist's logo and a line of text noting the client's copyright as, "Copyright (c) 2022 Learning A-Z. All rights reserved." /Image Description]