During my first year in OAU I made a portrait and hung it around Moremi hostel with my contact on it, it sat there for weeks and I one contacted me, felt really bad but I didn’t think much of it, then one day I got a message from this guy and he told me he saw my drawing at…
I did my best then I was done and have it to him he said “bro this is really good I’m happy you didn’t disappoint us” that statement meant to me more than I was paid, then works started rolling in that I got a lot of works, looking back at how far I’ve come now I’m grateful.
Moremi and he would like to commission me, I was extremely happy and told him I would be glad to do that for him, turned out it was for one of their lecturers and he paid me 7k, that was a lot of money to me back then and without any hesitation I got the materials needed and…
Life’s so crazy man, you keep doing something for years even when sometimes it feels like you’re just repeating the same thing with no progress, then boom! Someone you’ve never met or seen loves you for what you’ve been doing and they wanna help in their little way…
My favorite thing about art still remains the fact that you could give hundred artists the same materials and tools to work on the same reference, it would never be the same.
Imagine as an artist, you meet a collector(stranger who has never seen you) buys your art, keeps coming back to support you with funds and kind words, recommends you to friends and family, if that’s not real love idk what it is.
This was one of the few things I wanted so bad in life that I didn’t get to own, at some point when I could actually get it I lost every interest in it
I did a commissioned painting of a client(of the gf)which I wished I could share but the client gf is not much of a social person so I was asked not to, however, the client sent me a VN telling me how much his gf loved the painting and how it made her tear up even tho she finds…
I made the tweet below with less than 2k in my account and somehow this happened. For everyone under that tweet hoping for this too, I hope y’all get it soon❤️