Kofi Annan, caring for peace

I made this cartoon in 2001 for the Flemish children's magazine 'Klap'.
The caption read: "Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, has been campaigning for world peace
for five years. He did well, he can continue."

I will explain my working method from then a little better. I got a call with the new assignment... I made some notes and plans.
You can see my schedule below. This was work in my spare time. But apparently it was very busy then. There was lots to do...

My first sketches were absolutely nothing alike. Apparently I had to get into it a bit...

I found the logo of the United Nations in a book in the library.

I wanted to integrate that logo into the interior design. I wasn't exactly making it easy on myself...

I wanted to represent the world map of the logo spatially. After a few sketches I realized that it wouldn't be easy.

That required special attention and approach... a lot of calculating...

... and measuring... and a steady hand!
Because I didn't work large - about A4 size - I feared that I wouldn't succeed very well.

I took refuge in Coreldraw. I used that program in my daily work.
I constructed the ribs exactly as I calculated them beforehand and printed them on paper.

Then I constructed the world map of the logo and pasted the rest of my cartoon in front of it. Done with the drawing!

Time for some color tests. I made some photocopies at 50 percent (about A5 size).

With colored pencil I tried to find something suitable. This way I could quickly test and erase again and change if necessary.
I wanted to lose as little time as possible, so this was a good method for me.

I was not easily satisfied with the environment of the pigeon cage. I tried to focus on this one more time...

... and pasted the result on top of my first color test.
Okay, good enough for me. Now we can move on!

Only now could I start on the real painting. Gouache is not oil or acrylic.
You can correct some, but not large fields, without getting it dirty.
So the drawing had to be very good before I started painting.

When making the printing films, the rough painting was cut on my cutting lines. Ready for printing!
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Peace for all!