KRAVEN STRANGE
on Kraven
(Ruby) Um, so can you tell me a bit about Kraven? Um, like how you, you would describe him and like, yeah, how did you, how did you create that person?

(Kraven) Yeah. So I definitely, uh, started out drawing first because I, even when I was, um, before I was Kraven and did Kraven, I was doing drag and makeup looks, but I didn’t really have like a specific sort of stamp and like one look that I was kind of going for. And so trying to develop that, I started drawing him, drawing Kraven.
(Ruby) Does the drawing of Kraven, does it look like how you are as Kraven now?

(Kraven) I hope it does. I like to think so.
(Ruby) That’s so cool.


(Kraven) Let me, I can pull something up. Let me see one of my first ones. This was like the very, very first one.
(Ruby) Oh, cool. Okay. So that’s amazing.

(Kraven) Thank you.
(Ruby) I see. Yeah. A hundred percent.

(Kraven) It’s definitely, I mean, you know, the stash and the, the brows are just, you know, you slap those on and immediately that’s like, you read that.
(Ruby) It’s so good. Yeah.

(Kraven) Yeah. So I wanted something like that. And also like the eyes and stuff. I wanted something just for also the ease of me. So I don’t have to like think of something new and a new way to do my face every time. I like structure. I like playing within structure because I feel like if I don’t have that, I get like overwhelmed by choice and like overwhelmed of the possibilities of like, well, I could go in a million different directions. But if I have this sort of like, um, the structure to play around in, it makes it a lot easier and more straightforward. And instead of taking six hours for me to get ready, two and a half, which I’m trying to cut it down still, but you know.
Ruby) Was this style inspired by like any performer that you had seen specifically or like, how did you come to that? It’s such a distinctive look.

(Kraven) Thank you. Well, definitely, I think like my biggest drag king inspiration is certainly Landon Cider. He’s huge. He’s, he’s very well known as he should be. And I think like that sort of like extreme, like, glam, but also like evoking masculinity is what I wanted to do.
(Ruby) Yeah.

(Kraven) And also just like, I love cartoons. I love a cartoon villain. So I kind of wanted that to be, you know, what I was giving and trying to reflect in both like just the drawing of itself and also what I do both with my makeup. And I try to do that with my numbers to get that feeling across.
(Ruby) Yeah, no, totally.