I did some visual research on what kind of designs would be good for the teenager, but they were all a bit much for a character that only appears in three panels. I ended up going with a generic baseball cap, chains, ill-fitting shirt and terrible posture combo.
The dictator uniform is a combination of cool things I found from various image search results. Other stuff that I left out that was too hard to draw – chains, tassels, and more medals.
Real hardcore fans might notice that I moved the credits panel to the top instead of the bottom, because I thought it might look better separated from the news caption.
Challenges
Nothing too challenging this time around. The last panel doesn’t really make a lot of literal sense, and at some stage was going to be a simple front-and-side mugshot, but I thought it was funnier this way.
Rewards
Back to five panels at last! The comics should be as long as short as they need to be, but the sweet spot tends to be six. Too much more than that and they are hard to draw and start to get too ambitious for this format.
