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So this is no longer a WIP, even though I still can't seem to pin down what I wanted from this little detour. This is Questlove from the Roots (now on tour with Living Colour/Yohimbe Bros guitarist, Vernon Reid, who also has a couple of renditions here in my gallery).

People forget that before sample became synonymous with hip-hop (it's earliest developments were in symphonic music and early art-rock experimenters like Holger Czukay, Brian Eno/Robert Fripp, and David Byrne), that most early hip hop came under the direction fo the Sugarhill Label, which had one of the best housebands on earth, made up of Skip MacDonald, Keith LeBlanc, and Doug Wimbish, who since have continued in various guises to play with folks like Jeffe Beck, Dpeche Mode, Joe Satriani, the ROlling Stones, Little Axe, Bim Sherman, NIN and Seal among others. In my opinion, the Roots are the heirs to that legacy of uncanny, solid performance aesthetic. Questlove in particular, really impressed me after his side project with piano wunderkind Uri Caine and jazz bassist Christian McBride.

pencil, acrylic ink, gouache, pigma micron, acrylic paint + digital

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:iconphaze05:
bravo!
I jus completed a picture of Quest as well.
imma fave this,
and yes, I feel exatcly the same way about The Roots
I am seeing them in concert next tuesday!

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:iconwestwardcloud:
thats it! thats exactly what i was looking for, but didnt want so make a suggestion. didnt think it right.
but i love it.

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:iconcrazydwarf:
very impressive. good work with complementals colors.

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:iconkaneda99:
good work!

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:iconloish:
the best one out of them all, for me, because of the blue in the skin and the subtle interactions between the orange and the blue. neither is overbearing.
:iconbe17aiah:
Beautiful work. I love the facial fatures, and how your choice of colors brings him alive. It's amazing how complimentary colors bring out so much more than either of the two alone.

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"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
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:iconqueeny14756:
the choice of colors is wonderful. this is just siimply beautiful. i am amazed by your style everytime. its just perfect.

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:iconkung-fu-guy:
As usual with your pieces, I always originally think the previous version is better, but come and look again, and change my mind. I liked the sketchily coloured hair of the v5, along with the wider range of colours and the lack of colouring of the clothes. But now I prefer the stronger defined face, and the strokes of the colouring, on top of the solid hair and coloured clothing.

Though there's loads of pictures I like on DA, this one I'd actually buy as a print to hang up, but I'll have to borrow some of Questlove's music which my brother probably has), to justify it first ;). Not that it's a print, anyway.


Oh, and just to quickly comment, what's this-- one of the most eloquent people on DA leaves a typo in each version of this picture?? shock horror!!
:iconzeruch:
As usual with your pieces, I always originally think the previous version is better, but come and look again, and change my mind. I liked the sketchily coloured hair of the v5, along with the wider range of colours and the lack of colouring of the clothes. But now I prefer the stronger defined face, and the strokes of the colouring, on top of the solid hair and coloured clothing.

Thank you kindly.

Though there's loads of pictures I like on DA, this one I'd actually buy as a print to hang up, but I'll have to borrow some of Questlove's music which my brother probably has), to justify it first ;). Not that it's a print, anyway.

It will be soon enough :D

Oh, and just to quickly comment, what's this-- one of the most eloquent people on DA leaves a typo in each version of this picture?? shock horror!!

Just because I am prolix does not guarentee that my typing speed will keep up with my thoughts :D

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