It was a lot of perserverence, really. I could probably post my WIPs, but I don't really like posting those; they give away my secrets!

Actually, I first started with the red background. I typed all of the speeches into the canvas in Paint (YES, PAINT D: I'll never do that again) and noticed that it was a lot of red. First, I was going to do Stalin, but he's not the nicest guy from Russia, so I chose Lenin. Next, I outlined where Lenin would be (that took about 3 hours of my life) in the picture as well as the Star and Sickle/Hammer to the left (those only took an hour).
Then, I took the pencil in Paint to just map out where the shading would be, and believe me, if I had to do it over again, I would do Lenin first, THEN the background, because going around letters to shade was SO HARD!

Finally, I went through Lenin and found the words I wanted to shade. I chose light gray instead of a darker gray because it looked a lot like black. It took about 15-20 hours to finally get where I wanted the shades to be (xD On one of my WIPs, his nose is crooked, the eyes are near his ear, and his shirt is SO messed up!) and a lot of editing ensued. When I finally made up my mind that I was done, I was pretty happy with myself for actually accomplishing something like that.

I didn't really follow a tutorial, I just went with the flow for most of it. I was inspired by other text arts on here (Mainly this Obama one I found long ago!) and on the internet. If I had to do this again, I would probably not do a person again, because they are so hard to figure out what they look like from no reference pictures. I think Mickey Mouse will be next for me xD

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