So, a few weeks back Von Glitschka asked me to contribute to his new book about patterns. He provided me a pattern and then gave me free reign as to how to use it in an illustration. Cool, right? Wrong. It was hard. I went round and round with ideas, one evolving into another then morphing into something else. When it was all said and done, this is what I was left with. The pattern (which you can see in the king’s coat and in the jester’s hat) automatically made me think of the Crusades… which made me think of medieval things… which lead to the king and jester. The hip hop-ish elements of the illustration were influenced by the colors I wanted to use; bright and burning. Basically it was a convenient way for me to justify using hot pink… which, if you know me, is something I’m always trying to do…

Thanks to Von for letting me participate. Rumor is that the book will be out in March of 2011. Buy a copy.

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