Day #239 - MLK jnr Day

yesterday was Martin Luther King Jnr day in the US. So this is a picture of MLK Jnr.

Martin Luther King Junior is such an important figure in US and world history, he was proof that one person CAN make a difference no matter what the odds. Without people like MLK Jnr we wouldn't have the likes of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Eddie Murphy, Barrack Obama etc.

I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to ink in Darth last night and I really wanted to see how far I've come since starting this little project, when Vic asked me what I was drawing tonight I showed her the photo and said I was going to try to do a portrait. Her response was "how on earth are you going to draw that? you'll be up till 4am" I got it done a little quicker than that, actually I wish now that I had a camera recording me drawing this because when I was roughing it out and even when I'd drawn the outlines I thought that it looked nothing like him, it wasn't until I had filled in completely when I realised that I'd captured it exactly as I had imagined, I also forgot that the only black pen I had was a .5mm Sharpie so it took a long time to ink.

This is easily my favourite doodle for a long long time, probably since Robert Downey Jnr.

Maybe I need to just draw people that end in Jnr?

After a pretty stressful day's work I really really enjoyed drawing this, all up it took about 2.5-3hrs but it was totally worth it.