Since I was a child I have always loved stories and art, I learnt spelling and sentence construction from reading comic. At 8 years old I vowed to learn how these stories are transformed from words to visual, and how to create them.
Fast forward to adulthood, I am still that 8 year old trying to keep to his promise, which lead me to be a digital illustrator/animator. I have produced various digital art works, from portrait, comic, coffee books, magazine and children books. I am ever learning and open to new ideas. The sky is just the starting point.
Edwin Irabor is a creative and versatile artist, very invested in visual storytelling especially in the areas of illustrations, Architecture, filmmaking and 3D animation.
He is skilled in generation of ideas and developing them into expressive pictorial, audio-visual and graphical tools for visual communication. He has worked on comics, storyboards, concept art, and digital paintings and is capable of working in different styles and media, digital and traditional.
He has handled the illustration of Children activity books for the past 7 years and also illustrated 4 books for “African Storybooks”, an affiliate of SAIDE.
Folasade Adeshida is a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Lagos. She has worked in character design for animation, creative design for advertising and illustrating for children's book and comic books. She grew up on a steady diet of fantasy books and “Redwall” and seeks to recreate for African children the same sense of wonder and imagination those books sparked in her. To make this possible she has also collaborated with Flipleaves to bring free African stories to African Children. When she is not Illustrating, designing or fighting dragons she plays mother to her cat Odin.
Francis Umendu Odupute is an artist cum international award-winning journalist working fulltime with The NIGERIAN OBSERVER Newspapers in Benin City, Nigeria. He received his tertiary education/professional trainings (B.A degrees in Painting, and MFA in Painting, from the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Benin City; and (post graduate diploma in journalism, from the International Institute of journalism (IIJ), Abuja. On 4th December, 2009, ODUPUTE won the Global Media Award for Excellence in Population Reporting (Editorial Cartoon category) in Washington, D.C., USA: https://www.populationinstitute.org/external/files/2009_Program_Booklet.pdf ; on August 31, 2012, ODUPUTE won the WASH Media Awards 2012 (Cartoon/photo category) in Stockholm, Sweden: http://saharareporters.com/node/14529/de..; https://www.15min.lt/video/meet-the-winners-of-the-wash-media-awards-86682
Olanrewaju Gafar is a graduate of Yaba College of Technology in Graphic Design. He is an illustrator, painter and art director. He has created many pieces of illustrations for children’s books, comics and storyboards for television commercials. He has spent a lot of time working in advertising but one thing keeps striking him about drawing because he believes that it is the bedrock of creativity. With his uncanny imagination for illustrations, drawing keeps him going.
Henry Ezeokeke is a freelance Illustrator and cartoonist based in Lagos. I studied art at The Yaba College of Technology Lagos, Nigeria. I have worked in advertising and publishing. My hobbies include reading, drawing and watching cartoons. I 'am a versatile illustrator capable of adapting to various artistic styles, depending on the needs of a project. I create illustrations for children's storybooks, TVC Storyboards, concept art and character design. I can work on any project large or small considering the clients budget. I have a disciplined work ethic and a penchant for producing high quality work.
