Illustration of 2NES UNO who is an artist and dancer. His partner, Marlee Hightower, who’s also a dancer commissioned this piece to honor him for his 30th Birthday. This project was a good opportunity to use portraiture to tell a story. I’m so grateful to have had total creative freedom on it and was excited to use images based on 2NES’ artwork.

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The final piece was made into a 16” x 20” Giclee Print that Marlee had framed. I’ll update this post with how it turned out when it’s done.

Below are some videos documenting the process. They are broken up into 3 parts.
1) Color Roughs
2) Portrait Drawing
3) Finalizing Everything.

Part 1: Creating Color Ideas.

Part 2: Illustrating the Portrait (Face Only).

Part 3: Finalizing the piece with add-ons such as abstract shapes, graphics, and a Holographic representation of a character that 2NES draws in his work.