Avy Jetter, who posts on IG as @nuthingoodat4, does a drawing a day every February in honor of Black History Month. At the end of February these portraits are matched with a short biography and collected in a zine, I picked up this one a number of years ago.
I had this James Baldwin drawing on a pin I kept on my brown corduroy jacket but some young filmmakers borrowed my jacket for their wardrobe and lost it (the pin, not the jacket). I need to get a replacement.
I love pen and ink crosshatching drawings and Avy gets some really good tones in her work.
The zine provides a good cross-section of historic and modern figures and seeing that this project has been running for seven years (or longer?), there’s always something new to learn. Here’s one of my favorites from this year:
You can see process videos on Avy’s YouTube. Certain portraits are available to buy from her Etsy.