Lenin

Got to do a portrait of Lenin for the Wall Street Journal last week.

I love doing conceptual historical portraits, it was a dream job for me.

The article talked alot about Lenin's infamous micromanaging during the a sealed train ride from Switzerland to Russia in 1917, so I had to include the train angle.

I was glad my AD of AD's Keith Webb went with the more general graphic portrait...
But it still needed some work, here's a bit of the finessing....