Sunday, November 2, 2008

3. Cute vs. Badass?

So I have to make ballots for the kindergartners and first graders at school, and I couldn't find any little bits of clipart to use for a cartoon elephant and cartoon donkey that fit what I was looking for. So I drew my own, by starting with the elephant cause I knew more what an elephant looked like than a donkey. (As in, how to draw a donkey that's obviously a donkey and not a horse.)

Then the dilemma arose: I was very proud of the cute elephant I drew.... Dammit! I'm a democrat! I can't make the elephant CUTER than the DONKEY! Cause I know the kids will probably be voting based on the drawings more than anything else. I know I would at that age.

But how do you make a donkey look cute? Sure I could make it look like a badass devil-donkey - ala Stillwater High Schools making the Pony mascot slightly satanic looking so we didn't look like total wusses (example) - but that'd a) probably only appeal to the boys and the girl who dressed up as Darth and b) is totally not equal to a Cute Elephant. Not wanting to be biased either way, I went ahead and did my best:

3 comments:

Megan said...

Those are amazingly awesome. I bet you'll probably get plenty of oblivious kids going "Awww, cute horsie!", and so your Cute Elephant will be balanced by the child love for horsies with really long ears.

"girl who dressed up as Darth"

Awesome. <3

Whit said...

That awesome! Good point about the elephant. Hmm . . . it is PRETTY cute. Damn! But yeah I think that's true that girls will want to vote for the "horse." You should have made the elephant fat, ugly, disgusting, and stupid. Hahahahaha.

Meg said...

hahaha! Aww, thanks, guys! I'm hoping the cute horsie will do the trick.

The girl who dressed up as Darth is both awesome and the most frustrating little chica we've got. Thought the costume was appropriate. XD

And Whit - as much as I'd like to I'm all professional now. Have to be unbiased! ... in my drawings!