Hebru Brantley

Hebru Brantley is painter with a comic style and theme. 

I’m a huge fan of mythology, and the biggest form of that now is through comics. Within my culture, we don’t really have a true mythology, but [this series] is spinning that, presupposing that if these characters were people of color, how they’d fit into that mythos. As a showpiece, in making these characters people of color, it changes the lore and the mythology of everything.

What I like about Brantley's art is his comic like character designs and his appropriation of real comic book heroes, into his own art. I find it endearing that his appropriation is to make the heroes into colored races.

I would like to adapt his free ability to overlap and layer imagery, to make a complete composition versus to every little thing in the image is to be perfect.

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