Sketching the Vote in 2008

This is the sketch I drew while waiting for the results of the American election to be announced eight years ago (see my post Another kind of surge) 

Another kind of surge (November 2008)
(or what I did while waiting for the results)
11.5" x 8.5", pencil
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

The thing I remember that was so remarkable then were the huge long queues of people waiting to vote.

There were so many images of them in the press and online that I decided to start my very own queue and sat adding sketches images of individuals from the various images online until I'd created my very own queue led by an elderly African American lady with a flag.

It was also a bit of a reprise on a rather well known election poster of a few years back in this country. (I'm sure more than a few of you will remember that one!)

So who's sketching this US election? Will you be drawing?

Here's the list of people - with their posts that I found online last time and which I posted in
9th November 2008 - Who's made a mark this week?

I decided to make a compendium of all the illustrated blog posts that I could find by artists and illustrators blogging about the election day, the election process and the results....and here they are:

• Urban Sketchers had quite a few:

• Election Day, San Francisco by 

• Got Out The Vote by Tommy Kane (Tommy Kane)

• Election Night in NYC by Veronica Lawlor (Veronica Lawlor)

• Outside the polling place door by Elizabeth Perry (Woolgathering) - well done for volunteering Elizabeth!

• Election Day by Gabi Campanario (Seattle Sketcher)

• McCain in the rain and Voter Reassurance by Walt Taylor(Crackskull Bob)

• Put on your red shoes and let's dance by Pete Scully (Pete Scully)

• Other bloggers posted

• Paula Becker (Whateverings ) sketched as events unfolded on TV - in Election Night–Part 1 and Election Night: Part 2

• election day by Elizabeth Perry (Woolgathering)

• Election pants by France Belleville ()

• Today is the Day! by Tracy Helgeson (Works by Tracy Helgeson)

Adebanji Aladi's entry

in the Week 9 Challenge - US Capitol

• A Nation of Community Organizers from edward_ hussein* winkleman

• Tears of joy by Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade)

• Proud to be ... by J. Nijholt-Strong in Kats-in-Klompen

• Congratulations USA by Cathy Gatland (A Sketch in Time)

• Historic Day! (a portrait of Obama) by Nicole Caulfield (Plus Nicole's post about how she developed her portrait of Obama Profile Barack Obama WIP and Obama Profile)

• Plus you can see any number of different ways to paint the Capitol in Washington in Karin Jurick's Different Strokes from different folks - Week 9 Challenge - U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

• and inevitably that message was reiterated yet again

• Yes We Can! by Cindy Woods (Learning Daily )

• Yes We Can! by Gabi Campanario (Seattle Sketcher)

• YES WE CAN by Randall Enos (Drawger )

• Yes, We Can! from Draw Daily by pedalpower

• and just for the record here's a link to what seems to have been a pretty powerful piece of performance art which went viral. The video for Yes We Can has now been viewed more than 50 million times across various video sites.

.....and just in case you wondered what they were doing while a lot of us watched the TV, here's Behind the scenes with the Obama family - watching the TV!