Well it's been ages since I touched my sketchbook, and what more perfect a day to fill it than an overcast day, with Love Actually on a loop and eating marzipanned fruitcake day?
I chose another song from my playlist, "Hero" by Regina Spektor. (Awesome song. I did know it before I met the 500 Days of Summer playlist, however. (http://www.500days.com/500-days-of-summer-soundtrack-listing.html) A note on the movie, it had lovely clothes and actors and music...but that is it.)
Back to Hero, and what I did.
I decided to show a patriotic side, and with it, South Africa's pride in Nelson Mandela.
We are known as the rainbow nation, and his is the face of it. That's why it only made sense to show his face in all the colours of the South African flag (namely black, white, yellow, green, red and blue).
Here's to you, Madiba!
Ps. For interest's sake: Madiba is the name of the Xhosa tribe to which Mandela belongs. Culturally, it is a sign of respect to call someone by their tribe's name.
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