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.
About the Project
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.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence. Motion plates play inline at full page size.
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 work is drawn at resolutions far beyond the page, so getting closer is actively encouraged.
