I had the amazing opportunity to create illustrations for the official Instagram of the late night comedy show Desus and Mero on Showtime. The original idea behind the work was "revised classics," meaning that I would take an iconic image of art/culture and give it a makeover of sorts.
DOUBLE DRAGON
The 80s nostalgia is strong with this one. In this case, I was given the Double Dragon cover image and asked to recreate it in my own style. Key things I played off of where the classic ideas of a red and blue player and replacing their deadly weapons with peace offerings. In this case, flowers and an edible arrangement. Lastly, the dragons in the original game cover looked so dangerous and menacing so it was important to me that they looked as derpy as possible in the remake.
THE IG POST
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STANKONIA
For this one, I pitched the idea of replicating this legendary album cover and went to work to make it as close to the brand as possible. Desus and Mero are Bronx natives up in NYC and are quite often referred to as "The Bodega Boys." So naturally, the background had to be a painted Bodega shop.
THE IG POST
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COMIC BOOK BOYS
We decided we wanted to switch up the style and do something a bit different with my third IG post. So we thought, what is Desus and Mero had their own Super Hero comic? The first issue definitely had to star the dynamic duo fighting off the Covid aliens and keeping the Bronx safe.
Stay tuned for the next issue!
THE IG POST
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