Illustration 02

2nd Assignment in my summer Illustration class.

This is supposed to be a caricature of the historical figure I worked on earlier in the class, Sitting Bull, which could be found here.

The caricature is only as good as it's concept, so as a source, I used a section of an article I read as reference for this illustration:

"In March, as three columns of federal troops under General George Crook, General Alfred Terry and Colonel John Gibbon moved into the area, Sitting Bull summoned the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho to his camp on Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. There he led them in the sun dance ritual, offering prayers to Wakan Tanka, their Great Spirit, and slashing his arms one hundred times as a sign of sacrifice. During this ceremony, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw soldiers falling into the Lakota camp like grasshoppers falling from the sky." (PBS - THE WEST - Sitting Bull)

If you're wondering, Sitting Bull is the one sitting and slashing his arms, and that's General George Armstrong Custer falling down from the sky.

I gotta practice more with these crow quills...

Done with India ink using 512 point crow quill pen on smooth white bristol board.