Behind The Art: King Pool
Behind The Art: King Pool
Chaos, humor, confidence, and the wild energy of pop culture remix.
What can I say about Deadpool that Deadpool fans don’t already know?
IYKYK.
This piece started as a mashup between two iconic images: the famous Biggie crown photo, with the crown tilted to one side, and the classic Deadpool selfie energy. Somewhere in my imagination, Deadpool stole Biggie’s crown and decided he was representing Hip-Hop now.
Or something like that.
LOL.
Deadpool is hilarious in a way most superheroes are not. He is not clean-cut. He is not polished. He is funny, violent, wounded, ridiculous, unpredictable, and somehow still lovable. He lives in that space between good and evil, pain and happiness, comedy and chaos.
That struggle is human to me.
Most people try to split the good and the bad into separate boxes, but life does not really work like that. You would not even know what good was if you had never experienced anything bad. Deadpool just takes that inner conflict and turns it all the way up to the 10th power.
That is part of why I connected with this piece.
This painting also taught me something technically. It was the piece where I really learned how to paint gold — shiny gold, dull gold, and the kind of crown detail that makes the metal feel real. The crown had to matter. It could not just sit there as a prop. It had to shine like royalty, like Hip-Hop, like a stolen trophy.
Most people stop when they notice either the Biggie crown or Deadpool.
But the ones who really connect with it see both.
To me, King Pool is about power, humor, pain, and personality all living in the same body. It is good to be strong, but strength does not only come from physical force. Strength can come from humor, survival, timing, creativity, and being able to laugh while carrying heavy things.
That is King Pool.
A little dark. A little royal. A little ridiculous.
And still wearing the crown.
— SAVO