Takashi Murakami's cover artwork for Kanye West's Graduation: the Dropout Bear launched into a sky of pinks, purples, and blues, surrounded by Murakami's manga creatures and a rainbow halo of light rings.
The colour palette runs warm to cool across the full panel. Murakami's flat, saturated fields of colour look simple in print, but each transition between pink cloud and purple sky needs building through stitch-by-stitch colour changes. The bear's varsity jacket, chain, and sneakers demand fine detail at a scale where one misplaced row shifts a facial feature.
[X] hours of crochet. [X] colourways. Crocheted canvas on hoodie.
- Year
- 2024
- Project No.
- 002
- Source
- Takashi Murakami / Kanye West Graduation
- Medium
- Crocheted canvas on hoodie
- Crochet hours
- [X]
- Yarn
- Yarn and Colors Epic, [X] colourways
