Drake - Take Care

A drastic change of scene from all of my recent Leigh themed posts, this is a more commercially driven piece of personal artwork.

I'm not usually a big fan of modern day rap and r'n'b, but when I got hold of Drake's latest album I was pleasantly surprised. Drake's an interesting artist, sure he likes to big himself up as with most rappers but what I love about Take Care is that he isn't afraid to open up and give the listener a small insight into his feelings about his 'Hard time adjusting to fame' and personal problems with break ups and family issues, something that most people have a hard time reflecting and writing about, let alone a rapper rapping about it!

I gave this a lot of eartime at the time of it's release and have continued to do so. The illustration was put together over the course of a couple of evenings working up an Image as I listened, I wanted to capture the reflective yet ultimately confident figure that Drake is, coupling it with the album info.

I'm really interested in getting into more characterisation Illustrations of celebrities, public figures and just plain old normal people! It's something I've been meaning to experiment with more for a while.

Drake - Lord Knows Ft. Rick Ross