I saw this photograph in an advert in The New Yorker for a gallery and I just loved the composition, subject, and effect; I thought it would be a nice inspiration for the first of my daily cartoons.
I use the word cartoon advisedly. What I have made (or attempted to make) is not an illustration, or a sketch, or a drawing; it is a cartoon. I have tried, unsuccessfully so far, to find a clear articulation of the differences among all those; all I know is that (a) we can tell the difference, as a look at the GIS for each demonstrates, and (b) there's something about using the least amount of lines to portray the essential reality of things that defines cartooning.
So, this was not an attempt to recreate the photo in any detail, but rather just to capture the essence of the moment in a different form and medium. My guy has a little bit of a lean away from the critter (who I made just a dog instead of a hyena), which is different from plantedness of the real guy, but I liked it, so I left it.
Subsequent cartoons will likely have less explanation.
