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Robert Molenaar, Leeds United — illustration by John Tregoning for The Square Ball
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Robert Molenaar

A Robert Molenaar portrait for The Square Ball Summer Special, jamming a cult-Leeds defender's face into J. C. Leyendecker's Saturday Evening Post style.

Client The Square Ball
Category Artwork
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Figures 10
Client The Square Ball

For The Square Ball's 2019 Summer Special — the same issue as the manga Garry Monk vs David Wagner fight and the galactic Davide Somma.


My main piece that issue was the Cellino car park incident of... 2014? A while ago, anyway. You know who drove Massimo around that fateful day? Brian McDermott. Apparently.


April 2019



Molenaar's paunch, but Leyendecker.



I tried to jam Robert Molenaar's face into J. C. Leyendecker's style. Turns out it's surprisingly difficult to emulate one of the best painters who ever lived. He did most of his best work — my favourite, anyway — for The Saturday Evening Post, which I thought might translate nicely to the equally splendid Yorkshire Evening Post.