Update: I've replaced the original image -- which was a PNG -- with a JPG version. It has the same size, and (apparently) the same quality, but it will behave better as a MS Windows background (MS apps handle poorly -- if at all -- PNGs, even though they are a free and open standard).

Update 2: I also forgot to credit the author of the quote: It's Lennon, John Lennon, in his song Working Class Hero.

Fanart for Communist Girl, by Guildsman .

When I found out about his character, I instantly fell for her. In the words of someone: "Communist Girl embodies all that communism should be". In Guildsman's own words, "Communist Girl conveys just the exact right combination of naievete and resolve". She is good, she is strong, she is a commie, and she is a beautiful girl. What other praises can I say?

Anyway, this is my little hommage to her. It's the way I'd draw her -- or perhaps not, since it's about the first scrap I made of her. Probaby, if I doodled some more Communist Girls, I'd change several other things (I'm thinking on the gloves, now -- I think I'd make them more massive. And I'd perhaps add some tech to the suit...).

Not that I don't like the original character, mind you. I like her as she is, and I'd want Guildsman to keep her so.
It's just that in my parallell reality, things are a bit different.

I don't like what I came with a lot. I can't really put a finger on it, but something seems to be wrong. The gloves, obviously, but also something else that I can'ty point... Quite probably, I just need to doodle her a lot, and play with different colours combinations. Now, I wish that I was able to draw remotely as well as Guildsman does... To do this midly acceptable took me about five hours.

The picture was drawn with pencil and (roughly) inked with Staedtler PigmentLiners. It was then scanned, vectorized and coloured with Inkscape. Then background (which was partly stolen from the old Mozilla pages) was added, and lettering ("Accidental Presidency" for the quote, eroded and played-with "Propaganda" for her name. Both fonts are freely avaliable from Aphostrophic Laboratories).

The idea for the "Communist GirL" lettering is essentially the very same that Guildsman uses, however I redid it in my own way, and changed the hammer from the I to the L, where I think it belongs better.

Communist Girl is copyrighted by Guildsman. You must respect his will in issues of property. However, my share of work (colouring, setup, background, whatever you feel you can use) is freely avaliable. Use it as you will under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - Sharealike license (essentially, you can use it as you want provided that you credit the authors, the purpose is not commercial, and that your resulting work is also released under this license). Of course, Guildsman is exempt from all these, and he may use the image as he pleases.

SVG sources, editable via Inkscape are avaliable upon request (send me a note -- or, alternatively, explain me how I may submit, along with an image, the source file).