funk of the word

Something very new to my gallery. some type art to shake things up a bit.
Illustrator is starting to become my best friend, and not just some program that I can work with in Graphic Design. Took me forever to figure out how to do half tones in Illustrator which is my biggest pride in this piece.
All together not including the time I spent doing other assignments, or pondering on what to add to this picture, this took me about 2 hours and 30 minutes to do.