The Warriors Hip-Hop Covers: Draymond Green, 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year

I started a project in April called “The Warriors Hip-hop covers” immediately after I lost my design job of five years. The inspiration behind each cover swipe concept was to merge my love for dope hip-hop cover art with my favorite sports team, our Golden State Warriors. For this cover, I used a mixture of Adobe illustrator (desktop app) and Draw (tablet app) using my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

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Prior to Draymond Green winning the 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award, I drew this graphic to help hype up his claim to win the award. It’s a mash-up of him and Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn.” album that was released April of this year.

There were so many variations and memes made of this album cover, I felt changing the title from “Damn” to “DPOY” was fitting. It’s also one of my more popular illustrations to appeal to youth culture and the Warriors’ championship fan culture.

Enjoy!

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