The artist started this project quite naturally. It was an organic process that has evolved over time. But if he was to pinpoint the beginning, Randall would choose the '90s, the times he was sitting at the dentist's office waiting for his appointment, grabbing a magazine and drawing a mustache on some guy or a teardrop on Cindy Crawford.
There's no one way how he chooses the celebrities he's 'inking.'
"Sometimes, it's from old Life Magazines, sometimes from a movie I'm watching or a song I'm listening to," he told Bored Panda.
The artist half-jokingly said the mechanical part of creating an image for the series is usually "a terribly boring process" that involves a lot of "select tool, a new layer, technical pen brush, a new layer, a new layer, flatten, save as." These days, however, he draws everything by hand in Procreate.
"I make each piece with reverence to the subject," Randall added. "I thoughtfully plan out the layout of the imagery, doing my best to include aspects of the subject's life into the work. There's either a love or hate reaction that people have to my work... My hope is just that it ignites the imagination."
In my opinion, it certainly does! In fact, I would even argue that seeing these familiar faces in a totally new skin provokes thoughts on societal standards such as beauty and image.
