The Watchers

A little more dissecting and experimenting, pulling out some interesting things and learning a lot.

This style of painting, cell blocking, lends itself to illustration quite well. I'm trying to make it my own a little more, so I will experiment some more. :)

Feel free to leave a comment. This illustration is still inspired by the work of Sergi Brosa. sergibrosa.blogspot.com/

Peace.
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The Priest

Some Fan Art From the movie, The Priest, I like the movie's idea and the story line, and so I painted this.

There's really not much more to it. :)

Evade

Trying out a new style,m or rather adding some zest to mine! :)

Aspire.

This painting came out pretty cool. It started off as a sketch of a young girl who dreams of herself in the future, and aspiration to be beautiful.

I thought of what young kids hope to become one day, for me it was a fireman. I had no thought of looking like a male model or being super rich, I just thought it would be pretty epic to be a fireman. What interested me making this was the role we play in moulding this ideal in youngins. Ideally I'd want young kids to grow up inquisitive of the world, to grow up rebellious of greed and superficiality. I think it's pretty important to instill hopes and dreams that instead of telling kids what they can look like or drive one day, we can rather instill an attitude of will power, knowledge, and being proactive in society.

Well that was a whole bunch of ranting, I doubt it makes sense, I'm listening to rap as I write this, a horrible song of, making "mils" and getting girls.. Sad. Nonetheless I was intrigued with the childish innocent dream, to be a grown up. Now that most of my friends and I are, we're role models so we need to start walking right huh?

That's about all I'll put you through then.

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Dawn & Harold

This painting has been in progress since quite early in the year, I decided it was time to finish it up.

It is actually one original from my initial sketches for my Black as Ink theme. A female breakdancer, something I've always highly respected, because breakdancing takes some serious skill!

I admire the way female breakdancers move, they're agile, and their flow can be truly amazing!

So, I decided to paint a strong woman and why not a b- girl? Then the penguin showed up, his name is Harold, and he's pretty cool, as you can see.

Leave a comment, it is appreciated.

Peace :)
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Coloured Girls With Pretty Eyes

Portrait of a friend of mine. :)

Getting better at this painting thing. 3hours in photoshop.

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Priestess

Recently, I re-watched the Priest, a post apocalyptic film where man fights vampires. The vampires are defeated by priests with super human ability. Except, they come back twice as strong with 3 times the vengeance, you know it is. Sorry if I ruined it for you.

This is some fan art for the movie. The only female priest(making her a priestess). She is played by Maggie Q, who I think is beautiful. My attempt at rekindling that beauty :P that's all.

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Peace :)
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Willow

I'll start with the name. Its pretty clear its not a Willow Tree, and I myself am unsure if I'm calling the girl Willow or the concept by the name.

Initially, I was going to draw two women in a struggle, referencing a photograph of two female contemporary dancers, but I decided it would be more power and appropriate to my theme Black as Ink if I had a single woman sort of captured by nature. She is static like a statue, hence the young girl looking at her.

The idea behind this is that black women are seen as being closest to nature, the tree in this case being nature, holds the struggling woman, either supporting or hindering her. She stands as a legacy for the young black girl to look upon and learn from.

A lot of metaphors and concepts working in this work, but hey in the end, I wanted it to look great, I don't expect you to read all the above, but if you get here, you probably did :P

Leave a comment, share, all is appreciated.

Peace :)
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Penguin wars

Alright, so this really only exists because I like penguins. I thought it would be fun. I had great fun drawing the penguin, his name is harold and he's featuring a lot in my sketches lately. I wouldn't say he's my subconscious. He is more the Jake to my Finn.(Adventure Time ref.)

Soo.. Yea :) leave a comment.

Peace :)
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The Sista

"Its been a long time, I shouldn't have left you, without a strong rhyme to step to..." Some old school lyrics from rap legend Rakim to welcome myself back to my own blog. :)

I've been crazy busy with projects, so much so that I have to substitute a bathroom break and sleep to draw lately. I had the cool opportunity to work for an advertising company and do some story boarding, that was good experience and hey at least I got to draw!

So, I have not forgotten my theme this year. Black as Ink, and this is an addition to it. I'm still obsesseing about black culture, the people and how it fits into my life and all that jazz. *this is not a speech*. ;) I will say that I've been inspired by various artists lately, and as always hip hop music, bam!

I'll put up some related stuff soon.

Peace :)
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