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Right, I'm doing a very quick #DrawGavinWilliamson Challenge round-up. But here is a perfect example of the problem. @JPM06848080 produced this fine collage, but A PHOTO of Gavin looks more like Holly Johnson than it does of him 
While this excellent line drawing from @Andrewm82239566 is more Lance Percival than Gav, just like @lightacandleOTM's lovely drawing is more young Evelyn Waugh, @AuntyNationalAH's is like that nurse off of Casualty, @cartoonsidrew is Dick van Dyke ETCETCETC
Which is no reflection on any of you, but on him. He's a physical zero, a nothing, a dissipating guff of non-existence in an absolute vacuum. So, I'm cutting straight to the chase (and you can see all the entries here anyway martinrowson.com/draw) with the runner up & winner...
Right, after y’day’s mammoth fascathon posting all the entries, plus the 3 winners, to the #DrawPritiPatel Challenge just been looking through the #DrawGavinWilliamson submissions, just airlifted in from the deepest Pit in Hell by flying pig. And we have a problem...
...which is this, & it’s not the fault of any of you honed & skilled limnasts out there - for I too am of your number. Nonetheless, hardly any of the dozens of entries actually look like him. He is, in fact, almost impossible to draw because he’s so wholly fucking insipid...
...vacuous, vague, unformed, inchoate, vapid & more like a dissipating fart than anything even remotely corporeal. Which, I appreciate, raises certain issues. As is ever the nature of caricature, deviate by a micron & the true depiction is lost, blown away by the merest guff...
