Hello Tumblr,
I’ve gotten a few asks/questions about where people can buy prints of my work. So I decided to finally create a Society6 account. 

Check it out, show some love, and even maybe buy some prints or an iPhoon cover~?

I feel like I’ve been drawing poc chillenz for a year. I’m gonna have to draw a mythopoetic beetleborg fossil transformer seraphim soon. #sketchbook #illustration

Look tumblr friends, I was commissioned to create these illustrations for a company that consults startups. I had lots of fun creating these! I’ve been starting to explore more aspects of my process/workflow, and am trying to get more traditional drawing into my finished pieces.

(check out the pencil marks in the miyazaki-esque clouds+field of grass)

Zaki, the only child of ambitious Nigerian immigrants, is constantly learning things the hard way. When her mysterious grandmother moves in, things take a turn for the magical. But even her new found power doesn’t help Zaki deal with the reality of trauma, tradition, and loss.

My sister has a staged reading coming up. She asked me to create an illustration for it, and I was glad to of course~! It’s a really beautiful & inspiring story. Not to mention, it compliments my artistic sensibilities pretty well.

Here is a fb event link for anyone interested in going; https://www.facebook.com/events/127073087470356/?fref=ts

I learned alot from this piece, and had a ton of help from my dear friend Orissa. I can definitely noodle and render this piece for a few more hours. But I probably won’t go back into it for a bit of time.  (Sometimes you gotta scale things down and let them breatheee~)

(Source: odera-igbokwe.com)

I’ve been touching up some old images.

I like to call these creatures Emotibugs.

This a character based on the character trait of: deceit ~

I’ve been polishing a few of my older illustrations to bring them up to the level of my more recent work. This is an old assignment from Style & Substance, where we had to illustrate a word that seemed outside of our wheelhouse/comfort zone. Essentially each of us were assigned words that were almost the antithesis/antonym to how we would describe our work. 

My word was “frumpy”.

She really reminds me of Miyazaki’s old women, but I don’t mind that at all.

#stilladiva

“Mgbo & The High Shadow”

I’ve been going into old illustrations recently, and I’ve been itching to finish this one!

I started this at my last semester at RISD, when I was developing a bunch of characters from my personal mythology. The original was a pretty rough digital painting, and I was rushing until the last minute of class to print it out. But I really enjoy these two characters, so I thought I should really give this piece some more time and refinement. You could say these two are the children of “Yeyo: The Mother Goddess”. 

The one of the left is me.

But wait.

The one on the right is also me.

Right?

…that awkward moment when you see a g0rgeous photo of your friend, so you creepily do a sketch of it.

her face is almost as lovely as her art-twerk. *___*

http://punchbuggy.tumblr.com/

recently i’ve been experimenting with using graphite+colored pencil+watercolor+gouache. I l0ve acrylics, but I tend to get too heavy/opaque, so i’m still figuring things out. but i dunno, i’m still figuring out a way to implement more drawing into my illustrations/painting. 

(Source: )

http://fantasistent.com/2012/11/29/art-as-play/

So I had the pleasure of writing a guest blog for Fantasist Enterprises about inspiration and their slogan “awaken your wonder”. Originally I wanted to talk about all these ~deep, big, universal, concepts~ but for the most part I ended up spending 99.99% of time discussing creativity during childhood. To be real, the rough draft had a paragraph or two or four about Sailor Scouts and my own magical transformative powers. #I’mlevel12,passthemoonstone

And then I found these ridiculous photos, and I just had to share~!

A few weeks ago I wanted to do an Erykah Badu painting, and then go to Afropunk and possibly give it to her. But then I decided to not rush the painting (and not go to Afropunk either lol, I’m not the biggest fan of huge crowds/festivals). So I created this illustration of Badu. I knew I wanted it to be something more than a typical representational portrait, so I thought of it as more of an illustration I would normally create rather than a ~painting~

This was inspired a few of her songs: …& On, Apple Tree, and the videos for Didn’t Cha Know, and Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long. Initially I thought of creating a portrait of Badu in her iconic headwrap circa Baduizm. Then I remembered an interview she had, where she realized she didn’t have to be fully decked out all the time to show her spirituality. She could be the headwrap. Those powers lay within her, no matter what her attire.

I guess this is just me trying to capture a even just a bit of that beauty in a visual form. I really owe Badu alot for all the inspiration she has given me. So this is just me returning some creative energies back into the universe~