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Technique Video

I recorded the technique when I did the artwork for Meek Mill for anyone that wants to see what it looks like. I used Photoshop, mainly the pen tool with some coloring and filters. I learned how to do this via YouTube and Google. As an artist, those two sites should be your best friends.

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cREATED FEBRUARY 2018 BY KIZZLE

Why?

I made this collection to learn more about black history and practice a new technique I learned in Photoshop. I did not know most of the figures displayed below before this collection, but I felt that they were necessary for everyone to know about after I learned about them. This collection took about a month of non-stop work to make. I would like to do one every year with different figures, so this is Volume 1.

PROMINENT, POWERFUL, BLACK.

Claudette Colvin
Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Denys Cowan
Dapper Dan
Colin Kaepernick
Dr. Eric Thomas
Oprah Winfrey
Will Smith
Malcolm X
Coretta Scott King
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Michelle Obama
President Barack Obama
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
James Brown
Muhammad Ali
Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson
Rosetta Tharpe
James Avery
Ella Josephine Baker
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
Trayvon Martin
Dr. Charles Drew
Gordon Parks
Shirley Chisholm
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Meek Mill