Kanye West Rolling Stone by Jason Seiler

Kanye West Rolling Stone: This is a portrait that I painted of Kanye West for The Music Review section for Rolling Stone magazine. I'm a fan of a lot of Kane's music, so I knew this was going to be a fun painting to work on. The art direction was the same as it usually is from a Rolling Stone art director. "Have fun and make it look cool." When painting a musician, I feel that it is really important to listen to their music, so the first thing I did was listen to Kanye's new album, "Black Skinhead." Listen to the lyrics, the beats, let it sink in and sync in, really feel it. To me this album was a darker and angry sounding album. One song in particular had dog barking in the backgroun...View all