The Run

Just a concept illustration I decided to semi finish and put up.
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Androids are good listeners.

This is an illustration I drew last year. First thoughts? why paint something so old, I thought you were working on a new series?? Well, I like this drawing and thought I'd try a new painting technique on this piece. I don't remember why I drew this except that I was influenced by robots at the time and I love asian women in kimono's.

Encounter

A mystical priestess, adapted partially from the Calypso. She is one who serves the gods of the sea, she is one with the sea and can adapt to her environments in order to fulfil her duties. In this scene the priestess is collecting coral,sea cucumbers and other deep sea treasures for a harvest ceremony, when she comes across a Sting ray. The priestess embraces the Sting ray as an under current flows through...

A little story I came up while I noticed the Sting ray of Ushaka Marine World during my holiday this year. An addition to my Black as Ink series. As part of a folk story.
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lord flako

This is a recent portrait of rapper A$ap Rocky that I painted for no good reason but as a tribute to the upcoming super rapper.

I've called this painting Lord Flako, "who am I? Lord Flako, painting vivid pictures call me Basquiat Picasso",which is what A$ap calls himself in one of his verses in his track Phoenix, which is my favourite track of his.

So there ya go! comments welcome. :)
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sitting samurai

An ink sketch I did during the holiday, about 10min. Just transferred to digital.
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Black as Ink : sketches of black women

These are a few sketches for a series I'm working on during the course of this year, called Black as Ink. In this theme I will be exploring different situation of black culture.

The purpose I guess is a way for me to perhaps looking into the roots of being black, what it means for me, and how it is represented in the 21st century cultural melting pot.

So far I'm influenced by characteristics that define black women in their features such as their hair, and what they do. Not to make this a boring serious of awesome looking paintings and pictures, I'm also trying to juxtapose black and asian people in different situations, by incorporating various themes, such as hip hop culture. Which is a very prominent movement in black culture from the US to South Africa, to the UK and beyond.

My hope is to start an exploration my own way into what I find beautiful in black culture, blackness, hip hop, and what influences myself and other black people.

These few starting sketches are my documentation thus far, I will add paintings as I finish them, as well as more conceptual sketches as I apply them to projects and so on. I will also allow for commissions either of a piece centred around blackness or of black people and asian culture(not limited to)

This as much an exploration for me as it is an introduction for you into, my ideas :) so please follow me in the journey, and comment.

Thanks!
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