Watch Terry Crews discuss his career as a painter
Of course Terry Crews is an accomplished artist. Of course.
It’s important to keep your list of Most Amazing Things About Terry Crews up to date, but it’s not easy. Even if that list consists only of Crews’ IMDb page — a shrine to Crews’ ongoing career as Funniest Thing In Not-Good Movies — and his terse Pro Football Reference page, we are still talking about a person with both an IMDb and a Pro Football Reference page. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night, Crews added another item to the list: he was both an accomplished and prolific portrait artist during his NFL career.
For Crews, who had an art scholarship to Western Michigan and was the 281st player taken in the 1991 NFL Draft, his painting was all part of his hustle as an end-of-the-roster type. “I would get cut from a team -- and I played on six teams in seven years, so that happened a lot -- and go back in the locker room and ask [my teammates] if they wanted their portraits painted,” Crews explained. In exchange for a tip, Crews delivered some exquisitely ‘90s, Skybox Football-style artwork like this masterpiece depicting Ronnie Harmon:
Elsewhere in the interview, Crews reveals that he painted graphics for TV news in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and also worked as a courtroom sketch artist. Adjust your list accordingly.
