National coach Paul Van Himst and the Red Devils caricatures
They ordered a caricature of the Belgian coach who played soccer on a soccer table. I thought it was a nice challenge, I turned it into a table with the heads of the entire Red Devils team from that time.
I was lucky, the caricatures worked out easily, no player caused me much trouble, ... but in the end I was also unlucky... the drawing has disappeared!
I was quite proud of this drawing. UNFORTUNATELY... THE ORIGINAL NEVER RETURNED from the print shop!
Was it lost? Or could a fanatic football fan not resist the temptation and took the drawing with him? I don't know...
Luckily I still had my preparatory sketches! :-)
I tried some camera angles ... quick scribbles ... I found this one suitable ...
Next ... searching for a good head position and a striking resemblance...
Some training schedules... (I don't really know anything about that)... I'm trying to make it a bit funny :-)
Constructing the soccer table... and drawing the environment...
... and now starting with the football players... their proper place...
The bodies are all the same per rod, which saves a lot of work!
...but all heads are unique! That's where the most work goes!...
I sketch the heads randomly in terms of size, only the resemblance is important now...
Then I made photocopies in different formats and choosed the most suitable format for each player...
In the end I glued everything together neatly...
Finally, a quick color test on a 50 percent photocopy...
so that I felt confident when I started painting with watercolor on Steinbach paper.
Unfortunately, the painting has been lost, as I said earlier...
Luckily I still have a printed copy! Not the best quality, rather pale, but better than nothing...
... Somehow I still hope that the drawing will show up again, but after so many years? ... Not much chance!