CITYBOY

• 2012-02-17 28 notes

  

  Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance

• 2012-02-16 4 notes

  

  He’s coming together, huh? Full day of work today. I’ll finish this one up tomorrow.

• 2012-02-15 4 notes

  

  Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance - in progress

• 4 notes

  sketches for Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance illustration

• 2012-02-10 14 notes

  

  Josephine Baker

• 2012-02-09 3 notes

  

  Josephine Baker in progress

• 2012-02-08 4 notes

  

  Jackie Robinson

• 2012-02-06 6 notes

  

  Sojourner Truth Attempts to Vote

• 2012-02-04 2 notes

  

  still working out this annoying problem area in the composition in the lower left. it was a shocked hand, but i’m now thinking of putting in some more black folks to reinforce the contrast between the white fat cats and the black underdogs Ms. Truth was fighting for. I’m not sure. I planned this piece, and I should have been just a little looser to aid me when something planned doesn’t work. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s always good to have a back up plan.

  i have tried to give a little nod to early american illustration like Charles Dana Gibson with the pencil. Hope that’s coming through.