Yasser Arafat caricatures

I always thought Arafat was very suitable for a caricature with his Arabic scarf, his typical smile and his stubble beard.
I started - as usual - with a little pencil sketch that I then inked. Later I enlarged it to A4 size with the copier...

I once put together a booklet with my inked caricatures, '30 gekke bekken' ('30 funny faces')
and Arafat was the most prominent on the cover.

For a local exhibition I copied the pen drawing onto transparent film and placed it in front of a drawing sheet with ecoline colors
and framed it. You can see the drop shadow from the film above, the paper is now wrinkled and shifted a bit.

That was not my first caricature of Arafat. Above you see my very first attempt, I was 17 at the time
and I was still very inexperienced in making caricatures and in drawing in general :-)

Later I portrayed Arafat one more time, in 1995, for the Flemish children's magazine 'KLAP',
when he had decided to rebuild instead of fight.