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When I'm traveling I always carry some pencils and paper, to kill time when waiting for a bus or a train to catch.

In the summer of 2015, I was flying back from Germany.

I was drawing some tubular shapes with shutters, forming eyes. I didn't have time to finish the drawing on the plane, so I continued to work on it at home. It was not what you see now, it didn't have the aviator shades, nor the bucket hat or the colorful shirt.

2019 i found the drawing in my folders, found the drawing and

I was making a story of a scientist that died in an experiment. His colleagues saved his brain and managed to put him in a metal body. He had only one vice, cigars. So he had receptors that catch nicotine and flavor, feeding it directly to the brain.

After that, I got the drawing digitally in photoshop and did some enhancements. Not big ones, just things that you can hardly do on paper.

I don't remember when the idea to turn that piece into a Tribute came to me, but I wrote this on my blog on September 6th, 2019.

At that time I was already streaming almost every day.

"I was talking with a friend of mine about S. Thompson and his work the day before. Then I took a break from the other painting that I'm working on and did this one, the guys that joined the stream loved the idea and the look.

Had half of the canvas-covered with references from the movie "fear and loathing in Las Vegas"

I am fascinated with the work of this guy. Not brave enough to try to substances that he did, but I'm really happy that we're able to enjoy his work.

Too rare to die...