A long time ago I did a “Where’s Slider” for the Cleveland Indians. It was kind of a “Where’s Waldo?” with the Cleveland Indians’ mascot, Slider. The piece was wildly popular, but a lot of work to do. It was very much one of those “seems like a good idea at the time” kind of things.

It was a ton of work. I threw in a lot of stuff just to keep myself interested as I was drawing the crowd. If you see the original, you’ll notice that among the people on the field are a green-skinned alien, Superman, a lumberjack, a mad scientist, my Dad, my brother John, me, and the girl I was dating at the time. And when I got done, I told the Indians that it was one of my favorite pieces (and went on to win a couple of awards) and that I would never do it again, unless they paid me a lot more money.

Well, not the Indians, but someone else, met that magical Stingray price in my head and got me to go to the crowd well again. There’s a firm that teaches colleges how to give presentations to prospective students. They were familar with my work, and wanted a “Where’s Slider” approach to illustrating several common mistakes.

The process of doing one of these is a little more process than art. There’s all sorts of isometric projection involved, and using a kind of mannequin to create a crowd, and then a bunch of Photoshop compositing to put everything together. The end result is one I’m pretty happy with. It’s still always more work than I think it will be, but the result is pretty sharp. At least I think so.

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