Daniel Farke
A clean, direct Daniel Farke portrait for The Square Ball — the digital version, drawn early in his Leeds tenure while calm reconstruction still felt plausible.
About the Project
Daniel Farke, drawn for The Square Ball in the opening weeks of his Leeds tenure — back when a Norwich Championship title and the promise of calm reconstruction still looked like a workable equation.
This is the cleaner, more direct digital version, rather than the looser painted one elsewhere in the archive. I kept it to likeness, posture and the quiet authority a manager is supposed to project, right up until the season starts testing the theory.
And yes, he is also a gaffer — just not in any way connected to The Gaffer the magazine.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Likeness, posture, and the quiet authority a manager projects right up until the season starts testing it.
Sequence note
Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The deep zoom plates at the end go all the way to print resolution: close enough to see individual strokes, and you’re encouraged to.
Deep zoom appendix
Print-resolution studies
These appendix plates are wired for the Deep Zoom lightbox flow described in the implementation spec: inspection JPEG first, then tiled print-resolution detail once the viewer is ready.
