Recent Event: Drawing Session (2)

Another drawing session in the studio.

Recent Work: Folktale Story Book Cover Painting

I am back to painting book covers after a long period! A new 

cover for Lanre and The Queen of the Stream, an award winning 

book, was commissioned to me. I did the previous cover 

donkey years ago and was glad to have a chance at improving 

on it. The story is published by Lantern Books. To view the

step-by-step slide show of the illustration click here.

 

Recent Event: Drawing Session

Graphic artists at my arm of The Comics Hut studio held a drawing session last Friday. Posted is my sketch from the exercise. We had so much fun we decided to do this more often.

Past Event: Blog Feature (3)

African Digital Art featured my portfolio and bio on their blog. The site also interviews other African creatives home and abroad. Such free and credible publicity both humbles and encourages me and they have my thanks.

Past Event: Blog Feature (2)

 

Feedstitch.com is a site that helps you organise and collate related data from the mass of random information on-line. A feed on February 15th features 40 Amazing Examples of African Digital Artworks. The feed showcases images from various artists (including yours truly) and I find the gallery quite visually stimulating. Check it out!

Recent Work: Portrait Commission (5)

At last I am through with the three-in-one portrait painting. This painting was challenging to work on since I did it in vector using vibrant colours. But it was also enjoyable due to the interesting faces I was to paint.

The main difficulty was handling the hundreds of shapes as they overlap each other. This was made less troublesome by introducing layers for each major part of the painting (as shown below). I went for a painterly feel. It's easy painting smooth images in vectors, but this soon becomes boring to look at. This way, every time I look at the artwork, I have something new to see. The overlapping colour transparencies always yield a combination of beautiful colours.

The reference photo I used is shown above and below is the final painting. The portrait shows a textured background that was created in Adobe Photoshop using the cardboard cutout filter and converted to vector using CorelTRACE. All in all, I had a blast and believe the result is well worth the effort.

Recent Work: Internet Privacy Poster Design

I decided to participate in the design exhibition for Privacy in the Digital Age on Zooppa.com. The concept is derived from the adage about airing our dirty linen in public. The language is ironic and the whole work is in vector graphics. The design took about 2 hours to knock out. I hope it makes sense.

 

Past Event: Blog Feature

 

I was pleasantly surprised to find I had a feature in the blog CONFESSIONS OF A NAIJAHOLIC. This blog is a cornucopia of creativity from Nigerians. Please check it out!

Recent Work: Autobiographic Comic Strip

I just finished a three page story on how I discovered my love for visual storytelling. My detailed post is here. 

Recent Work: Portrait Commission (4)

At last, I am through with the first of the portraits I have been working on for over a month. I had two false starts but eventually figured out how best to go about it.

The posted work was painted in CorelDRAW 12 using layers just as in Photoshop. This made it easier to handle the many complex shapes overlapping one another. There are over 12000 shapes in the painting and it will be produced as a large scale giclee print on archival canvas.

I hope to be done with the rest soon.