Yasser Arafat caricature for children's magazine 'Klap'

Yasser Arafat had won the Nobel Peace Prize the year before along with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.
He had finally ditched his weapons and wanted to help build peace and prosperity.

Some preliminary sketches to get into it...

... ditto ...

... to finally arrive at this...

... a quick coloring test with colored pencils on a reduced photocopy 50 percent gives me more certainty ...

... to start the final version in watercolor paint on Steinbach paper 250gr./m²...

There was always some nervousness about how it would look printed. Fortunately, that was usually not so bad, but ...
when it goes to the printer you lose all control. You then depend on the talent and goodwill of others...