slimmic:



Am still expection to hear from you

Sorry i forgot. Send a message to my fb inbox notifying me you're slimmic from nairaland to enable me accept it. Then we'd start tutorials immediately.

my latest work.spent 5hrs total in this. Pencil in cardboard.

nice

For those saying Igbo's are Jews.....we are not! However we're Hebrew.....there's a difference. The current jews are descendants of the tribe of Judah which is why they're called jews. We Igbo's are descendants from the tribe of Gad, not Judah.....so we are not Jews, but Hebrew. Lets study and make research ourselves and understand these things.

bigfrancis21:


The easiest solution is to keep speaking and speaking. There's no other way to learn any language other than speaking it, making some mistakes here, perfecting daily and there and in a few years you'll be perfect. Trust me. You can spend 12 months sitting in an Igbo language class however if you don't make any direct effort to speak you will not make any progress.

If you decide to learn French or Italian at a language school, the main emphasis would be learning to pronounce the words correctly, making sentences etc (practicing how to speak) and in a few months to years you'd become fluent in it. It's no different in learning Igbo which would be easier than learning French or any other new language since you already understand it but need to perfect your pronunciation. I see some 'I wish I could speak but my parents didn't teach me Igbo' people that use that excuse as a reason to not speak Igbo. Well understood, the mistake has been made but it is correctable by the individual, yet they make barely any effort to learn the language themselves and they go nowhere. There are plenty Igbo language movies on Youtube nowadays. Watch as many as you can, call up your parents, friends or relatives who speak Igbo and speak with them, if any laughs at you grow a thick skin and continue speaking. Practice practice practice. Life always rewards those who persevere.

In Igboland, a child could be excused for not speaking Igbo but as an adult, you are definitely not excused. Truly speaking, as an adult you should be speaking Igbo, with no excuses whatsoever.

Ndi bee ayi kwulu si, ngwele si n'enu osisi daa, o bulu na ndi umunna ya a jaro ya ike, o jaa onwe ya ike (if a lizard falls from a tree and survives, if its people do not congratulate it, it will congratulate itself). An Igbo proverb that emphasizes on perseverance in hard times in the midst of little to no support.

Bro.....thats what i'm all about. Not giving up. Maybe i should also reveal that on phone and via text, i'm pretty much "average". The main problem is when i come face to face.
Last, last....most people are bitches who'd try to complicate things for you as much as possible. But to hell with them. Its refreshing to know there're still "reasonable" people out there that'll encourage you.

Nwanne'm, Kaa! M'bu onye Nkporo. Its good you raised this topic.
You see....there're always two sides to a sword. I didn't grow up in the East, so i could only learn Igbo from my parents.
The way they arranged it was that, my Dad would teach us Igbo, while my mum would teach us English. But guess what? My Igbo life suffered because my Dad wasn't always around. So i understood Igbo (Nkporo), but couldn't speak fluently. Which wasn't my fault.

I got to the university....happy that i would finally learn Igbo (especially general igbo, since most people don't understand Nkporo), i purposely moved into a room with two other Igbo guys from Arochukwu and Enugu. I made it clear to them that i wan't to sharpen my Igbo speaking skill with their help. But guess what? Whenever i speak....all they do is laugh (yes, i didn't have the accent and mostly bit my tongue, but i was trying). Now, i don't have a problem with them laughing. The problem was that they refused to correct me after laughing. I told them this, and they'd be like "ehh....you said it correctly", when obviously not true.

I got frustrated and began trying to learn on my own. You see.....alot of you guys would come here and be bashing people like me. Given, we can't speak it well, but what have you done to help us. See, when you guys laugh and refuse to correct us, we give up. Thank God i don't give up easily.

You talked about us feeling too big? I don't know about others....but whenever i speak English in the village (Amurie) so as not to embarass myself with my clumsy Igbo, people would treat you as a nobody.
The last time someone did that was 2014. I accompanied my Dad to Eze Otam's Palace. I then went to visit a new acquintance close by. He was with some friends, and we were introduced. One of the guys then asked me a question (in Nkporo)...i answered in English. He immediately hissed and uttered some demeaning comments about me, for just that.
Since that day, i swore that since i'd be treated like trash because i find it difficult to communicate fluently in Igbo, i won't associate with any of them. Some people would now come and interprete as "feeling superior". See, they were the ones started the superiority complex. Its my right not to associate with people who treat me like trash because i'm not fluent.

Next year, i'm relocating back home.....to any of the Eastern state. This Igbo, i'm going to learn it intoto, i don't need anyone's help again (since all i'll get are laughs and insults). I'll learn it myself, and then i'll employ and sponsor people to travel outside Igboland to teach people like me......people who never had the priviledge to learn it to fluency.

Bolusticus:

There is no place as dirty as these in Osun

Are these places not in Anambra or not?

You guys are always the first to tag other tribes as dirty meanwhile even your most developed state is as dirty as a dughill

I think those would be old photo's. I recognise one of the photo's......that's way back in 2009. Try updating your gallery.
P.S- i'm not from anywhere near Anambra.

Completed. Had acute-conjuctivitis......so i wasn't on my best optics. Note that i haven't started using mechanical pencils. I'll upgrade soon.

I'd like to ask a lot of questions, but i'd let you finish first.

Following.

Started my next work.....on A4 paper.

NoChill:
Nice one bro, I love your work. Maybe sometime in the future we'll collabo and do an amazing masterpiece

Sure!

slimmic:
Nice artwork Teesha i appreciate but please is there anyway you can teach me how to draw

Thanks. I'd love to tutor you, however, i'm not anywhere close to Ph (its easier to learn in person). However i can try giving lessons from online.

Nice work Numero. You're really good at shading......which is one of my weak points. Following.

I was in a haste to complete the above work....due to a personal deadline. If you notice, the outline mouth and eyes were not gotten by shading but by outlining, which is a bad practice in art.
Rushing is really a bad thing!

The finished work.

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Progress shot.

August 2nd, started this new work. 10" by 10....graphite on cardboard.

EpicMaurice:

you really tried.
Ballpoint pen drawing is really tough.
I've tried learning it before but I gave up

Thanks.....i've not tried it again. I intend to achieve a certain level of expertise in pencil before delving fully into biro. I feel the better i am with pencil, the better i'd be when i use the pen.

Well, lets do some throw-back. Remember the pencil sketch of a man in towel above? I decided to try my hands on biro. And i figured the best way is to do a work i've done already.
Did this around August 2017.....my first (and currently-only) biro work.....here goes.

This is the completed piece. There's no feeling better than what you get when you stare at a good handwork of yours.

betboyforever:
Nice one.. Keep up the good work and never stop learning to improve.

Thanks.

I spent a lot of time on this particular work....about 3days (didn't count the hours)...and i achieved a degree of hyperrealism.
Complete piece coming soon.

And then......around July, i started one of my best works yet, for a friend on facebook.

Next was this A4 portrait of my cousin. In four hours....for her birthday around june.

Aimwest:
Wow following
Also teaching my self artwork and I will appreciate it if you and I together with other artist( beginner or pro) can form a WhatsApp group.

Nice idea.

Next was my nephew. The photo i had of him was not really clear, so i had to do a lot of rounding up. It still turned out well.
Done on an A4 sheet.....around April.

Brightizy:
no weapon still federal government says they do spend billions on security, my question is where is all that money going to? Kai God help us in this county :'

When Buhari talks about security, it's almost always about the military. The Police is not well funded compared to the military. That's why the Army can afford "free medical outreach", because.....too much money.

What our leaders don't know is that, if they don't invest well in our Police (welfare and logistics), they'd be so ineffective that they'd even have to spend more when all hell breaks loose.

D1official:

Am from Nnewi Anambra state.
But I must say that you are foolish.
You think you more IBO than those from Enugu and Ebonyi.
You are the reason why Yoruba people never seize to insult us.
Receive sense.

That bozo is not an Igbo person. Haters like them try to bring division by claiming to be Igbo's and making stupid comments.
But we can see through them. Last last, they'll sell their future for a bag of rice.

Nice. How long does it take this snail to fully mature, and what leaves are they fed?

My aunt's birthday was upcoming on March (this year) and she asked for a portrait. I was feeling lazy and had little time (i started working). But had to do it for aunt.
So one day at work, took out an A4 sheet and my pencils (they're always in my backpack) and tried to sketch from one of her photo's.
Took me two days and a total of two hours (its hard to concentrate while clients keep coming in).
So, here goes.