More Than A Friend
It was good to get an update from our friends over at More Than A Friend: ‘We’re on the cover of the new Under Pressure Magazine out of Montreal’. For Issue 15′s theme of celebs and media, they created an image using a photoshoot, cartoon characters, and an original pattern for the tablecloth. The final image was created with ink, acrylic (airbrush) and oil on canvas, then scanned in and the pattern inserted. [see also the magazine cover work of Alex Trochut]
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