Illustrators ireland: one-word brief

Here’s the latest collection of responses to a One-Word Brief by members of Illustrators Ireland.
The word this time was ‘Arriviste’:
(a-ree-VEEST) noun
1. A person who has recently attained high position or great power without due effort or merit; an upstart.
2. An unscrupulous, vulgar social climber; a bounder.
[French, from arriver, to arrive, from Old French ariver.]

