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Murder of Crows: The Ending of Jim Crow (2022)

Drawing of crow and psychedelic sky by Kim Martinez. I have worked on the first panel and these are very rough sketches to give us an idea of the figure ground relationship. I used hippy chick grounds and they have a bit more of a cartoony effect if you want them more serious I think we need to go with a ground that is less happy decorative as per the middle drawing where the birds are coming out of the linear elements of the ground, I think it also says something a little more conceptual too. Of course these will require a lot more work as far as setting up to draw and I would do much bigger than a few inches tall.

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2. Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike 1968
5. Murder of Crows: The Ending of Jim Crow (2022) Drawing of crow and psychedelic sky by Kim Martinez. I have worked on the first panel and these are very rough sketches to give us an idea of the figure ground relationship. I used hippy chick grounds and they have a bit more of a cartoony effect if you want them more serious I think we need to go with a ground that is less happy decorative as per the middle drawing where the birds are coming out of the linear elements of the ground, I think it also says something a little more conceptual too. Of course these will require a lot more work as far as setting up to draw and I would do much bigger than a few inches tall.
6. Here lies Jim Crow: Men carry the coffin of Jim Crow through the streets to protest racial discrimination in 1944.

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2. Murder of Crows: The Ending of Jim Crow (2022) Drawing of crow and psychedelic sky by Kim Martinez. I have worked on the first panel and these are very rough sketches to give us an idea of the figure ground relationship. I used hippy chick grounds and they have a bit more of a cartoony effect if you want them more serious I think we need to go with a ground that is less happy decorative as per the middle drawing where the birds are coming out of the linear elements of the ground, I think it also says something a little more conceptual too. Of course these will require a lot more work as far as setting up to draw and I would do much bigger than a few inches tall.
8. Eagles at her call - Inspiration for Jim Crow by Kim Martinez
10. Watts Rebellion Illustration (9.2022) Initial thumbnail sketch by Kim Martinez "I wanted to get you these ideas for the Watts section of course I have not put a lot of energy into a complete drawing but these will give you an idea of what I am thinking. #1 Historically is not accurate but I liked the visual of the cops surrounding them as they are being pulled out kind of hard to see but the figures on the left in the car is the woman trying to hold back the man as the cop pulls. #2 After they have all been pulled the two kneeling on the ground is painful and humiliating, but also has a praying feel to it. #3 The figure on the ground is the female, not sure if I like that, but could easily be changed to a male and she could be pulled out instead of the male, finally the last male is already out being carried away. I think they all have a temporal feel to them."