Meet Illustrator - Kasim Earl
My favorite pieces from your Gallery are Emalikai the Great, I Imortal, The Angel of Death and Portrait Study.
Can you tell me the story behind these pieces? Let see, Emalikai the Great was done in acrylics.
Emalikai was a character I created years ago.
As a comic-book collector, to me there weren't a lot of black super heroes out there; so I created Emalikai.
He's kinda like me, he grew up in a two bedroom apartment in the projects in Harlem, raised only by his mother.
The only difference is he's gifted with magical powers.
I Immortal was done in oils.
I've always had a thing for vampires and thought they where so cool.
I've read Dracula and Ann Rice's Interview with a Vampire and seen the movies.
I've drawn vampires in the past, but never painted one.
The Portrait Study; I've been doing fantasy art for so long, so I had decided to something different.
For years I've avoided doing realistic portraits because to me all of them came out looking like bad caricatures.
So I said to myself, "What the hell!", so I tried again.
I've chosen a model on DeviantArt, her name is Claire Jones, she's from the UK.
With her permission she gracefully allowed me to use one of her stock photos.
Do you have a favorite piece of artwork that you've created? My favorite pieces; I have a few I consider to be my favorite.
The Tribal Princess, Emalikai the Great ( of course) and The Necromancer.
Art and artists don't seem to get the respect or credit that we deserve.
How does that make you feel? Aggrevated, it angers me.
Like any artist, I work hard at what I do and to not get the respect (I feel) I and others like me deserve, pisses me off.
Someone explained to me that it's probably out of jealousy because of the fact I'm self taught and I didn't attended any fancy or expensive art school to acquire the knowledge to do what I do.
With my learning disability it wasn't easy.
I bought and studied a lot of books and took advantage of some of the less expensive workshops and life drawing classes out there.
If you could be the artist behind a campaign for a celebrity, who would it be and why? Janelle Monae, Erykah Badu, Pink, it would be really cool do campaigns for them.
See Kasim's art - http://kazzea.
daportfolio.
com/gallery/417799#7
Can you tell me the story behind these pieces? Let see, Emalikai the Great was done in acrylics.
Emalikai was a character I created years ago.
As a comic-book collector, to me there weren't a lot of black super heroes out there; so I created Emalikai.
He's kinda like me, he grew up in a two bedroom apartment in the projects in Harlem, raised only by his mother.
The only difference is he's gifted with magical powers.
I Immortal was done in oils.
I've always had a thing for vampires and thought they where so cool.
I've read Dracula and Ann Rice's Interview with a Vampire and seen the movies.
I've drawn vampires in the past, but never painted one.
The Portrait Study; I've been doing fantasy art for so long, so I had decided to something different.
For years I've avoided doing realistic portraits because to me all of them came out looking like bad caricatures.
So I said to myself, "What the hell!", so I tried again.
I've chosen a model on DeviantArt, her name is Claire Jones, she's from the UK.
With her permission she gracefully allowed me to use one of her stock photos.
Do you have a favorite piece of artwork that you've created? My favorite pieces; I have a few I consider to be my favorite.
The Tribal Princess, Emalikai the Great ( of course) and The Necromancer.
Art and artists don't seem to get the respect or credit that we deserve.
How does that make you feel? Aggrevated, it angers me.
Like any artist, I work hard at what I do and to not get the respect (I feel) I and others like me deserve, pisses me off.
Someone explained to me that it's probably out of jealousy because of the fact I'm self taught and I didn't attended any fancy or expensive art school to acquire the knowledge to do what I do.
With my learning disability it wasn't easy.
I bought and studied a lot of books and took advantage of some of the less expensive workshops and life drawing classes out there.
If you could be the artist behind a campaign for a celebrity, who would it be and why? Janelle Monae, Erykah Badu, Pink, it would be really cool do campaigns for them.
See Kasim's art - http://kazzea.
daportfolio.
com/gallery/417799#7
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