warhol & weed: these are a few of my favorite thangs

i made this cannabis can image in tayasui sketches. i love high contrast, so i usually brighten or intensify instead of pale things out. minimalism and color focus work well when i’m drawing pop. you can do very elaborate and deep pop art too, even with darker spookier colors… but i find brighter and animated themes tend to be more accessible in terms of what the general public wants. slow grief needs a more ancient canvas, maybe.

pop art is repetition, exaggeration, humor—but also contrast and composition. i don’t want to copy warhol. i adore him, but i’m not doing that - i mean aside from a homage like this. :) i like bold and graphic, but with feeling. my version has sharp edges and strong light. it’s got black, always black. i used to try not to outline everything in black, but now—fuck it. found my voice.

this piece is funny, yeah, but also clean. high-contrast. graphic. i wanted it to have a punch and that’s the point. pop art can be candy, and be light… but it can still carry weight.