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As much fun as I've had experimenting with new techniques and styles and art supplies, I wanted to relax a little bit and fall back on my One True Art Supply: Your basic graphite pencil. I specifically wanted to do a pencil portrait (for someone who said she wasn't going to be drawing faces for a while after the 100 Heads Challenge, I sure have been drawing a lot of faces...) and was wracking my brain trying to decide what I wanted to do. Then, I stumbled on Janelle Monae's Grammy performance and, well, that was it. I was reminded just how much I adore her, so I figured I'd give her a shot.
Finding a picture I wanted to work from was not easy. I had a sort of general shape in my head that I wanted to draw and Janelle just needed to have that angle. I basically found it and even though I had to splice a few references together to get my final reference, I'm happy with the overall look!
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Print available on DeviantArt
My Valentine's Day was lovely and not just because I spent a couple of hours of it staring at Janelle Monae's face. My wife and I exchanged chocolates and I had designed and printed a shirt for her on Redbubble 0f a Moogle with graffiti letters saying "Get Munny Get Paid." I haven't posted the Moogle art, but now that J has her shirt, here's what it looks like.
I know it's popular to shit on Valentine's Day, but I've always loved it. The candy selection is unparalleled and the packaging on said candy is wonderfully over the top. I love how there are stupid puns everywhere. But, more importantly, I really love the people I love and most days of the year it's considered weird to tell everyone how much I adore them and to get them glittery love-related stickers. I mean... I do it sometimes anyhow, but on Valentine's Day it's actually encouraged!!. The world is my goddamn Valentine. All I ever want from J is candy and she always provides.
So even though it's past midnight here on the West Coast, Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!
Finding a picture I wanted to work from was not easy. I had a sort of general shape in my head that I wanted to draw and Janelle just needed to have that angle. I basically found it and even though I had to splice a few references together to get my final reference, I'm happy with the overall look!
Click to enlarge:
Print available on DeviantArt
My Valentine's Day was lovely and not just because I spent a couple of hours of it staring at Janelle Monae's face. My wife and I exchanged chocolates and I had designed and printed a shirt for her on Redbubble 0f a Moogle with graffiti letters saying "Get Munny Get Paid." I haven't posted the Moogle art, but now that J has her shirt, here's what it looks like.
I know it's popular to shit on Valentine's Day, but I've always loved it. The candy selection is unparalleled and the packaging on said candy is wonderfully over the top. I love how there are stupid puns everywhere. But, more importantly, I really love the people I love and most days of the year it's considered weird to tell everyone how much I adore them and to get them glittery love-related stickers. I mean... I do it sometimes anyhow, but on Valentine's Day it's actually encouraged!!. The world is my goddamn Valentine. All I ever want from J is candy and she always provides.
So even though it's past midnight here on the West Coast, Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!
Janelle Monae
Date: 2019-02-15 05:34 pm (UTC)From: