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Gallery · Feb 2022

Black History Month — 50 Figures in 50 Different Art Styles

For BHM 2022, the art team made one illustration a day in a completely different style — a love letter to artistic range, placed inside the game’s art museum.

Harriet Tubman illustration
CoverDaniel Hale Williams

For Black History Month 2022, the art team set themselves a challenge: a different historical figure every day, in a completely different art style. Pop art, painterly portrait, ink wash, woodblock, cel shading, midcentury poster — fifty in a row, no two alike. The finished collection lived inside the game’s art museum, where players could wander past each piece in turn.

Click any piece to see it full-size. The full booklet is downloadable below.

The full booklet
Download the Black History Month booklet — all 50 illustrations + biographies.
PDF · 50 pages · Free to share
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Section 01

Civil Rights & Leaders

8 illustrations
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist · Underground Railroad
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin
Civil rights pioneer, age 15
Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson
Stonewall activist
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociologist · NAACP co-founder
Jane Bolin
Jane Bolin
First Black woman judge in the U.S.
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture
Leader of the Haitian Revolution
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist · Statesman
Charles E. Cobb
Charles E. Cobb
SNCC organizer · Author
Section 02

Creatives & Artists

12 illustrations
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Poet · Memoirist
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
Historian · Founder of Black History Month
Yasuke
Yasuke
16th-century samurai
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist · Composer
Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman
First Black female pilot
Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman
Actor
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence
Painter · The Migration Series
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Godmother of rock and roll
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah
Rapper · Actor
Williams Sisters
Williams Sisters
Venus & Serena
Matthew Henson
Matthew Henson
Arctic explorer
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Broke MLB color barrier
Section 03

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math

9 illustrations
Mae C. Jemison
Mae C. Jemison
Physician · NASA astronaut
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
NASA mathematician
Charles Drew
Charles Drew
Blood-bank pioneer
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
First Black female U.S. physician
Vivien Thomas
Vivien Thomas
Cardiac surgery pioneer
Percy Lavon Julian
Percy Lavon Julian
Synthetic chemist
Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams
Performed first successful heart surgery
Emmett Chappelle
Emmett Chappelle
NASA scientist · Astrobiologist
Bessie Blount
Bessie Blount
Physical therapist · Inventor
The full booklet
Download the Black History Month booklet — all 50 illustrations + biographies.
PDF · 50 pages · Free to share
Download
A love letter to artistic range

Created by the Immersed Games art team for Black History Month 2022. Each piece took a different visual approach — a chance to push our craft and celebrate the breadth of art itself. We dropped them into Tyto’s in-game art museum so players could wander past them.

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