UNIFORMS

Tom of Finland did this sketch in 1987. He drew six booted and uniformed cops, some more detailed than others. AI turned the sketch into a finished drawing but left out the sixth officer and interpreted nr. 4, who is clearly intended as a black man, as a white male. I only noticed that after having done dozens of images and videos with the five (later seven) white clones. Here's an image to compensate for overlooking that and to honour Tom's original intentions.

The five cops I continued to work with gradually got leathered up and then leathered down again. In the end I decided to go for just one leathercop and four 'regular' cops in fabric uniforms.

After I had made the leathercop and the cop with the open shirt sit down on a steel cage, I knew I was on the right track. It resulted in a little video in which AI decided seven cops was better than five. Here are a few stills from that video.