The Many Faces of Mary Jane, cover showing seven women in gilded frames surrounded by cannabis leaves

The Many Faces of Mary Jane

Women, Cannabis & Wild Beauty

Thirty-one original portraits, cannabis worked into every one. Some sit inside a heavy gilded frame, others let the leaves grow through loose hair or patterned fabric instead, drawn the way a portrait painter would draw them rather than the way a novelty shop would. The cover brings seven of them together in one frame. Glam, not stoner. There is not a single joke about being baked anywhere in this book.

Every face is different on purpose: different ages, different hair, different skin, different bone structure. The kind of range that is easy to promise and rarely delivered.

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Size8.5 x 11 inches
Pages62
PrintingOne design per page, a themed pattern on the reverse in the paperback to hide show-through
Best withMarkers, pencils, gel pens
AuthorShantelle Jewell
Also asA printable PDF you can color more than once

What is actually in it

Portraits with large, open areas of hair, fabric and petal, so a brush tip can fill a shape without you working right on the edge.
A real mix of treatments across the collection: some designs sit inside an ornate gilded frame, others are open compositions with cannabis in the hair, background, or clothing.
A soft repeating leaf pattern on the back of each design, so if a marker does come through it lands on a pattern rather than on the next drawing.
Line weights heavy enough to hold a marker edge, and no grey shading anywhere, so the color decisions are all yours.
Thirty-one distinct portraits, no face repeated twice, spanning a real range of ages, hair textures and skin tones.
A note near the front reminding you to slide a sheet of paper behind the page. It is the whole trick.

Four pages from the book

Uncolored, exactly as they print. What you see is what you get.

The Many Faces of Mary Jane sample page, a woman in a gilded frame with a lightning bolt and cannabis leaves
The Many Faces of Mary Jane sample page, a woman in a gilded frame with a floral cannabis crown
The Many Faces of Mary Jane sample page, a woman in a gilded frame with a crescent moon halo
The Many Faces of Mary Jane sample page, a woman in a gilded frame veiled in cannabis leaves

And here's one finished. Colored with gel pen, nothing touched up after.

The Many Faces of Mary Jane sample page, finished in gel pen, a woman with a cannabis leaf crown

Before you start coloring it

Letters from Mary Jane

She is the woman this book is named after, and once a month she puts something hand drawn in the post. Hand drawn pages, stickers, bookmarks, seasonal prints, different every time.

One email when the club opens. No spam, and you can leave whenever you want.