Full length cartoon of the subjects on a clean white ground with a thin soft shadow: oversized balloon head, huge round glossy eyes behind chunky dark glasses, and a big cloud of layered grey graphite scribble hair around the head. Skin, hair and main garments are rendered in soft smoky grey tones with crisp fine ink contours, while one small garment accent is kept in a single vivid color drawn from the supplied photo. Features stay simplified with a flat neutral pout. The subjects may be re-posed into a stiff funny standing pose with arms hanging loose and a slight forward slump to suit the deadpan joke. A tall adult man in his fifties with grey stubble and a long grey beard braided with a thick braid of red, white and blue ribbon that falls down his chest to the waist, standing with a small star clip near the top of the braid. He wears a plain work shirt and canvas trousers and a pigeon perches on the end of the braid. The drawing is a full length character study of a weathered, wry grown man. No lettering.
Light: flat sketch daylight; palette of ribbon red, ink grey and paper white; quirky, sweet, breezy.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces.
