KISS Your Rhythm & Blues Away on Illustration Friday

October 27, 2016

KISS Your Rhythm & Blues Away on Illustration Friday

"I Just want your extra time and your.... Kiss."

-Prince

Yay! It's Friday, Illustration Friday, and I hope you all are wiping the Blues, of your week away in

anticipation of what the Halloween weekend will bring. When I say Blues, I mean Rhythm and Blues,

because that is what inspired this week's IF Illustration; a phenomenal rhythm and blues artist we all know as Prince.

Now, this week's topic is KISS and I was really thinking about sitting this week out, because I wanted to illustrate something Halloween related since Halloween is coming up this next Monday. However, I just couldn't get the idea of this tiny little lip character out of my head. Also whenever I first read the topic for the week, I couldn't get Prince's Kiss from playing out of my head either; not that I would really want to as it's such a good song. To be honest, I've secretly been jamming to it in my head all week long.

So... I just couldn't resist any longer! I thought I'd pull a Thursday-Night-Illustration-Friday-Hail-Mary and sort of throw together what's been FLOATING around in my head this week. Ever since I illustrated my little Raspberry Beret, I just wanted to keep drawing Prince in some shape, form or fashion. I guess my imagination and my pencils and pens just weren't finished with the Artist Formerly Known As just quite yet.

Since Prince's visage is so striking and alluring, I thought it would be conceptually appropriate for the topic. After all it takes an alluring visage to inspire a Kiss anyway, right? ;0)

I worked on ways to incorporate my little Lips Character and Prince's visage. Today, I thought of the solution to the challenge. I wanted the little lips character to be holding 2 balloons and the balloons would be the 2 eyes. Simple and fun. I sketched it out quite quickly, inked the drawing, scanned it in and began to find as much purple as I could in my collage library. I'll admit I had to fudge on some of the tones and create purple tones I was looking for out of them. Thank you, Photoshop, for being Magic, always.

SO I hope you enjoy this little guy, and also enjoy the rest of your Holiday weekend. Find some mischief and mayhem to get into. It is, after all, Halloween. I know I am certainly looking forward to some festively spooky parties and some more scary movies before Monday is out.

I leave you with the song that has been playing in my head and was the inspiration, mostly, for this week's illustration. Enjoy and Happy Halloween! BwahaHaHahahaha...