You are gifted.
Keep it up man.

This is some f**k**g talent you got.
Jah bless your work.

You are talented with an unusual perspective and subject matter. Please post your website/Instagram etc if you have them.

Great work...would luv to have a drawing of me.

You are finnnne. God bless your work

Nice drawing. It actually took some stress off me, just looking at it. Thumbs up.

My favorite is 3pm at Abakpa

TALENT!!!!!�

This is beautiful!!!

All I can say is WOW WOW WOW.... coz I'm just speechless ��� I wish u d very best coz d star is just your starting point �

James4bright:
And the funniest part is that with all this talent, artists don't earn much.

Says who?? Please do more research. Some artists make a lot...all that they need is to have the right marketing strategy, just like any other business.
Check out this young under-30 lady on Instagram -. @ceracerni (Her real name is Sarah Sanni). We follow each other on Instagram. She's into mural painting... people are on queue waiting for her services...her DM is full of requests.
Art pays oo!!

O boy!

This guy's really talented.

I wish I can learn all these 3D drawings.

It's always an enigma for me whenever I behold it.

Art is underrated.

DriggityDre:
Abstract artist.
My man. I wish to get one myself.


What does being an abstract artist mean to you
Open your mouth

Baba I know nothing about arts neither can I even draw mosquito sef

Kudos

Evercurious:


Cos it's abstract figurative.. Read the 2nd paragraph to see his type of works. He stated all that there

Wow! I know nothing concerning arts shar

Creativity at its peak.

Op u r extra gifted.

olumide4christ:


Says who?? Please do more research. Some artists make a lot...all that they need is to have the right marketing strategy, just like any other business.
Check out this young under-30 lady on Instagram -. @ceracerni (Her real name is Sarah Sanni). We follow each other on Instagram. She's into mural painting... people are on queue waiting for her services...her DM is full of requests.
Art pays oo!!

Oh. Instagram. I forgot that social media platform still exists, best platform for publicity. But Nigerian artist still won't earn much, who buys art in Nigeria? Lol

PMPhoenix:
Hello Nairalanders, I really do hope everyone is doing well during these trying times, felt I should show some of my art to help ease tensions a bit and bring to you a different kind of experience.
So here’s how it’s going to work, I will give a brief introduction of myself and my work, and then I would post a couple of drawings including commissioned works and progress shots too. I would then post a selected four again but this time I’d leave commentaries below detailing what inspired the drawings and other relevant information so you’d get a better understanding of each one.
I’d keep it as basic as possible so both enthusiasts and those new to art can soak it all in. Without much further ado let’s get right into it.

My name is Paul Mbah; I draw a lot so it just became what I do. I was born in Wales but I grew up across several southern states in Nigeria, I finished from UNN and began almost immediately to feature in Art competitions and exhibitions. My art is mostly abstract figurative (This phrase means the artist communicates ideas using objects and or persons) and are drawn primarily with graphite, charcoal and ink on paper. What do I want to say with my art? There’s no central message because they’re about everyday life, more than anything I just want people to be inspired by them.

Happy viewing

The first one, A Song about Daylight

Wow! Thats all I can say

Dope!

Extremely talented.
Not for everyone.

PMPhoenix:
Hale, while I was working on it

Amazing..... I love them

stunning and outstanding.

StrikeBack:
Nice one.
The only thing some people know how to draw is tattoo

Do you mean the ones who get the tattoos or the tattoo artists themselves. Because that's an art on it's own. Really difficult too

PMPhoenix:
Hello Nairalanders, I really do hope everyone is doing well during these trying times, felt I should show some of my art to help ease tensions a bit and bring to you a different kind of experience.
So here’s how it’s going to work, I will give a brief introduction of myself and my work, and then I would post a couple of drawings including commissioned works and progress shots too. I would then post a selected four again but this time I’d leave commentaries below detailing what inspired the drawings and other relevant information so you’d get a better understanding of each one.
I’d keep it as basic as possible so both enthusiasts and those new to art can soak it all in. Without much further ado let’s get right into it.

My name is Paul Mbah; I draw a lot so it just became what I do. I was born in Wales but I grew up across several southern states in Nigeria, I finished from UNN and began almost immediately to feature in Art competitions and exhibitions. My art is mostly abstract figurative (This phrase means the artist communicates ideas using objects and or persons) and are drawn primarily with graphite, charcoal and ink on paper. What do I want to say with my art? There’s no central message because they’re about everyday life, more than anything I just want people to be inspired by them.

Happy viewing

The first one, A Song about Daylight

no watermarks?

No Time To Show All,
My Studio And My Studio Boy.
The Real Stars Zone.

PMPhoenix:
A Song about Daylight

I made this one sometime during the first quarter of 2019. I got the idea for it after feeling jealous of how a friend of mine communicated freely with his parents. Now this might sound like a strange thing to be jealous of to some of you, but after experiencing the way they talked so freely (right down to even personal events and sex life) and looking at what I and a good number of other people have going on in our circles which is a far cry from that, I couldn’t help but feel bad about it.

I know no family is perfect but the effect of this one on me was strong. By extension, there’s a lot of well to do individuals who, despite having enviable financial/social statuses, don’t have genuine and honest relationships with family members or other people in general, there are guys and ladies out there right now who pay people to just spend time with them, who am I to judge though?

This drawing was inspired by that complexity. In the image there’s two subjects, the female subject is affluently adorned to represent the wealthy, the male represents the powerful as he wields an ‘ofor’ (a short staff usually held by men of leadership status in Igbo land) and is also wearing a chieftain cap. In a mannerism inspired by Michelangelo’s painting ‘The Creation’ both are reaching towards the central portion of the space which is lit up slightly, the central portion represents the simple joys of life, peace, happiness, acceptance, trust, friendship and love.

Both models in this drawing are actual family members. I wanted to photograph family members for the image to retain the spiritual potency of what initially inspired it.

The daily struggles we face as Nigerians tend to make us misplace the value of these virtues and on the long run when we do acknowledge them, they might not be so easy to get back.

I know the feeling bros... I've got friends who talk to their folks as if they were pals ... Nice work by the way

You work is great man keep it up

Nice piece of work. But you ought to have watermarked these paintings so that one idiot will not wake up one day and start posting same images as their work.

PMPhoenix, your artistic talent is deep and wide like an African river. All you need is the right connection to the EU or USA art market, and my brother, you will be reaping SERIOUS dollar amounts for EACH of your very original masterpieces. Your rare gift for art is worth millions of greenback dollars, and I am absolutely convinced that the world is going to hear a lot more about you in the coming few years.

These are beautiful drawings. I'll definitely be getting one soon.

James4bright:


Oh. Instagram. I forgot that social media platform still exists, best platform for publicity. But Nigerian artist still won't earn much, who buys art in Nigeria? Lol

My former boss, a popular billionaire in Lagos is a great connoisseur of art work. When I was working with him, artists used to travel from Oshogbo and other parts of the South West to Lagos to come and sell paintings, sculptures, etc to him. He would pay them hundreds of thousands and sometimes even millions of Naira for the art work. This happened continuously all through my time with him.
Check the lady ,. ceracerni out on Instagram. She's making a hell of money from her works.

Pls carry me along bro. This my J.Cole and Kendrick Lamar joint face sketch