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The very long story I wanted to tell about the boy is that my original concept, before I wrote anything down, was for him to be a burger mascot 0w0 I thought it would be funny if David fell for a corporate mascot, but it could still have the same meaning in the end, as long as I could make the mascot nice to look at and not silly. But the truth is, I hated him.

I did a lot of iterations but here's the one where I tried to make Frisch's Big Boy sexy and there was just nothing I enjoyed about drawing him... Oh and yeah I switched to donuts then back again then back again... I also couldn't figure out what would make him "art".

I finally sat back and tried to think of something else that was a kind of antithesis to classic art but would actually look good next to David, and then it clicked. 

What if David fell in love with a Banksy :))))

I didn't end up choosing an actual Banksy, or using any real street art, since a lot of people think Banksy is kind of full of shit, and I have mixed feelings about pulling from modern art, mostly that I didn't want to guess at what's going to end up being "important" centuries from now. It's complicated, basically. So I just looked at a lot of refs for style, and included a lot of meaningless (in this context) imagery; it's the amalgam of people, of shape and texture, and of culture that elevates him to art, not the actual intent of any of his artists.

I considered combining the concepts and just making him a burger boy who got vandalized, but I felt like maybe that was making it more complicated than it needed to be, and so I just put him on the side of a donut shop to give a little nod to that former concept~ Rest in peace, burger boy~