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It’s Not Unusual: The ‘Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Fan Art You Never Knew You Needed

Get ready to sing the theme song. Well, sorta.

Paco Taylor
6 min readApr 10, 2018
Credit: @The_Wright_Artist

In cities across America, born and raised, in the art class is where they spent most of their days. Chillin’ out, maxin’, acting all cool, a-mazing their peers and teachers at their schools when an idea struck, and they knew it was good. If anyone could do it then these artists could! So they readied their tools, and with skill and great care, they made fresh fan art of the Prince of Bel-Air.

Thank you. Thank you. Yes, I will (as in Smith) admit that that intro there was pretty darned clever. But that’s exactly what the super fresh fan art curated here for your viewing pleasure demands.

In fact, who knew that there are talented folks out in the nerdiverse producing fan art inspired by the 90s TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? And not only that, homeboys and homegirls, but that it’s some really amazing-looking work?

Equally amazing is the fact that the styles run the gamut: from manga-influenced drawings and Picasso-inspired portraiture to graffiti and TV cartoon parodies. Yet, a unifying thread runs through all of these diverse styles: vibrant colors and geometric patterns––aesthetics for which characters on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (especially…

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Paco Taylor
Paco Taylor

Written by Paco Taylor

Paco writes about Eastern & Western pop culture, history, and art. He has bylines at CBR, G-Fan, Comics Beat, NeoText, and Nextshark | stpaco@gmail

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