Okeedoke this is all preliminary work a book spread for an essay on coffee. I choose to illustrate historical scenes from the essay. I'm still working on the color versions of these for the finals so stay tuned
handwritten type for the title
According to the essay Muslim Imams first got the idea to use caffeine from watching the behavior of goats that had eaten magenta berries and they went bha-listic hahahahah... that's sheep not goats... sigh.
“The Imam found that he could juggle a dozen ideas in the time it normally took to consider a single one”
“What hashish was to baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Steven- son, nitrious oxicede to Robert Southey, mesca- line to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffine was to Balzac”
Everyone from Ethiopian warriors that grounds it in to animal fat and ate it before a battle to soldiers in the civil war rallying the troupes with a cup of coffee, caffeine has been a part of the beginning for historic events.
ink line drawing
original drawing before I bumped up the contrast so you can see the brush work better.
Blazac was also known for having such a caffeine fix that he snorted coffee grounds up his noose! talk about loving the smell of coffee in the morning. hehehe
Da goats!
gray scale initial studies
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