L. Fury's 100 Favorite Things to Draw
This is an exercise I did for the agency that represents me, The Cat Agency. They assign this to all of their new artists. It's part of a larger mission to get their artists the type of work they want to do, because what often happens in an artist's career is that they take whatever work they can get early on, and that work dictates the type of projects they can win in the future. This was a brilliant way to get me to draw all of the things I have always wanted to draw, but had no excuse to. It was a lot of fun and quite the challenge!
I love drawing people, so I wanted the concept to include a lot of character designs. I could have gone more abstract with the design, but wanted to ground them all in some sort of environment together. A costume party scene allowed for a great variety of characters and fashion, and many opportunities to tell stories through the characters' interactions.
The children's book 'The Neighbors' was a huge reason for this. I love Einat Tsarfati's busy backgrounds and use of color.
I also referenced the party scene from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the drag queen was heavily influenced by Naomi Smalls from RuPauls Drag Race S8.
her mom drag was *chef kiss*
