Theodore Roosevelt

Being on a ship for 7 month can drive someone nuts. I spent that time as a sailor for the navy from 2008-2009, but also spent that time working on my artwork. I had a limited amount of reference sources. When we would get to port, I would photograph as much as possible and take as much source materials that would interest me. (The best was England of coarse) Since I was a graphic designer on the Ship USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) working with journalists, photographers and pretty much welcome wagon to guests on the ship, I got to know and see ol' Teddy A LOT. I even got these portraits of good ol' "Teddy Ruxpin" done
The first one was just a quickie I did and became a poster for our print-shop, sort of a way to show what can be done there.

This was probably the most popular one on the ship and was used on the cruise book, kind of a ship's year book for that 6-9 month cruise.

This one was my favorite one, but wouldn't you know it, no one else really liked it. My theories are that the sketchiness of it made people think it was unfinished. Also that most people in the military aren't artists and only want things to be hi-tech, new and "perfect."