Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

Season 4 Champion Sharon Needles

Digital painting of Sharon Needles’ ghostly figure emerging from a Ouija Board. Congratulations, Sharon! <3

Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

Season Finale

For my last RPDR S4 illustration I wanted to do something fun and dynamic. I drew inspirations from Anime like Sailor Moon considering the anime/video game influences in the Glamazon video, as well as the queens’ transformations. I represented both the queens’ runway looks, as well as their giant Glamazon monsters. Since the original images were pretty large I’ve also included some detail shots of the queens’ faces in this photoset. :D

Hail Satan!

Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

The Glamazon Music Video

Since the music video drew so much inspiration from video games, I decided it would be fun to draw the queens as fighting-video game inspired pixel sprites!

Watch out, here comes one fierce Glamazon! Sharon Needles!

SHE’S A FIRIN HER LAZORZ.

Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

Episode 11 - The Fabulous Bitch Ball

I mentioned this earlier, but I really wanted to do something that was very Vogue/New Yorker/fashion-magazine-esque fashion illustration with washy colors and delicate lines for this episode. I feel like I could have been a bit more loose with the washes in these, but aside from that I think I accomplished that kind of imagery. Instead of using a brush or felt tip pen to do the line for this set of illustrations, I used pen + nib instead which allowed for not only more fine lines, but lines that were a bit more “alive”.

Chad Michaels, Latrice Royale, Phi Phi O’Hara, and Sharon Needles in their Canine Couture with their respective puppies.

Sharon Needles donning her canine couture with Callie. Black, white, and red ink - done with brushes and a fountain pen (which I haven’t used in a while).

I knew this episode was coming since the S4 previews came out, and the moment I saw the queens would be walking the runway with doggs I really wanted to do a Vogue/New Yorker/etc. fashion-illustration esque set for them. I finally got the chance! ;D

Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

Episode 8 - DILFs

I’m not going to lie, I didn’t find this episode to be inspiring artistically or otherwise, and I didn’t quite want to catch up on an entire episode with illustrations of not just five queens, but also their DILFs. So here’s my favorite part of the entire dang episode to sum it up in an illustration. ;D

Illustrations: The Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4.

Episode 9 - Frock the Vote

This is a catch-up post a few weeks after the episode aired. My apologies for the delay, but here are my illustrations for Frock the Vote! I stuck to flat marker colors for this batch of illustrations to kind of mimic the simplicity and limited colors of political campaign posters. 

DiDa Ritz, Latrice Royale, Chad Michaels, Phi Phi O’Hara, and Sharon Needles rocking their Inaugural Gowns.