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Kobe Bryant

$30.00 – $70.00

 

DETAILS:

Size: 12″ x 18″

Paper: high-quality 130# Sterling

Versions:
• $70 – hand signed (signature is hand-signed by artist)
• $30 – digitally signed (printed signature)

 

Original: SOLD

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The making of…

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Just getting started on a new piece!!! This one features one my of my all-time favorite players: @kobebryant. When I was younger, I play A LOT of basketball. In my driveway, I’d pretend that I was @Gary.Payton.20, and I had the last shot to win the game. The clock winds down… 3… 2… 1… the shot goes up… it’s GOOD!!! Sonics win!!! Like many kids, I looked up to athletes. What they did, we did. What they wore, we wore. And so on. So, are athletes role models? Do they have a choice? I think back to when Kobe entered the league. He was drafted at 17 years old so his parents had to co-sign his contract with the Lakers until he was able to sign his own when he turned 18 (before the season began). My latest piece will depict a young Kobe wearing his newly-minted Lakers uniform, and sitting in solitude while pondering his future: the hopes, the dreams, and the quest to become one of the greatest to ever play the game. But before all of that, he was just a kid who wanted to play ball. Kobe, fresh out of high school, was thrusted into the biggest spotlight - not only by playing in the NBA, but also in the big city of Los Angeles - and he now must carry all of the lofty expectations that come with being so highly touted. Now, he’s young, rich, athletic, charismatic and insanely talented, and kids yearn to be like Kobe. So, is 17-year-old Kobe a role model? Does he have a choice? People from all over the world looks upon Kobe in anticipation of what he *might* become. And so it begins...

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“When you make a choice and ‘come hell or high-water, I am going to be this,’ then you should not be surprised when you art that. It should not be something that feels intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that… when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time because it has been [in your mind] the whole time.” - @kobebryant - Jumping around this piece a bit. Added the first layer of shading to his hand and elbow, and then moved over to tightening up the details in his neck area. This piece has such dark shadows so it's easy to disregard the details in this area since they're so faint but, when you see this piece in person, you'll be able to peer into the shadows and see the next-level, minute details. - #art #drawing #lakers #lakernation #kobe #kobebryant #blackmamba @lakers @lakersscene @lakerscommunity

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“Once I discovered (letting my emotions erupt on the basketball court), everything about the game changed. Because now I understood that I could really lose myself through the game. And no matter what affected me, no what happened in life, I could always step on the basketball court and let my game speak to that, step on the court and just absolutely erupt… The feeling of playing with that rage was new to me but I fucking loved it.” - @kobebryant - One method I use for skin texture is to first apply a light layer of graphite, blend it out so it's smooth, and then use and eraser to remove small amounts of graphite. In this video it looks like the eraser is leaving behind lots of white dots, but next I'll softly blend out those white dots and then repeat the process. After a few passes, a finely-detailed skin texture begins to emerge. - #art #drawing #lakers #lakernation #kobe #kobebryant #blackmamba @lakers @lakersscene @lakerscommunity

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Weight .02 lbs
Dimensions 18 × .01 × 12 in
Versions

Print (digitally-signed), Print (HAND-signed)
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