So yesterday was a busy day! After Rex Features got in touch with me, I was featured on the both Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, for my map!
Here’s what readers are saying:
“how did this take hundreds of hours? its not even that good. if it had said 10 hours maybe even 5 hours, i’d still think that was a bit long”
- Gary, Bexley, 15/8/2012 16:57
“why is this load of sh… in the news?? i,ve got a 5yr old grandchild that can do better”
- tell it like it is, liverpool england, 15/8/2012
“Well he’s got the publicity he was obviously after! Having first seen the drawings I thought what a fantastic 10 or 12 year old - found out he was 23 and a Graphic artist! - Drawings are great all the same but very juvenile in design.”
- PaulW, London, 15/8/2012 17:26
“My child drew a picture of a dinosaur wearing a cowboy hat. Far more interesting. ‘Artist’ is not a simile for ‘Idiot’”
- Redspider, Blackpool juxta Tamworth, 15/8/2012 21:12
“should have just drawn a toilet …….”
- stuart, stockport, 15/8/2012 20:24
“Its a shame he didn’t put his 100 hours to better use like our heroes in Afghanistan and Iraq or our nurses working 72 hour shifts in the NHS. They would love nothing better than to eat an ice cream. Instead they are working to make people like David’s lives better and he doesn’t even look grateful in his picture. Broken Britain.”
- Jake Finnhouse, Birmingham, England, 15/8/2012 18:22
“Its a doodle… so what? I mean anyone can draw this given enough time. Like the quip on the back of a tshirt that says “I’m with Wally”… so we know where wally is. This is where the fun is, in the detail. But its nothing that I or most others couldn’t do…. and in 6 months thats a lot of forgone earnings..”
- EUSSR, London, 15/8/2012 20:39
I think some of these gems will be going up on my website later! Despite the negative, I got a lot of positive! Countless emails came through yesterday and the map sold out within hours. I’m expecting another day of people emailing asking if there are any available. I’m sorry but there is not! The maps where an addition of 100 and now they have gone i’m afraid!
However, after the success of this map, I will now be drawing another map of New York City! To keep updated of the progress of this map (when I begin!) and my other work, please follow my Tumblr (this!) and Twitter: @DRyanR
Keep it classy!
DRR
