Embrace the Struggle Drawing

My art work explores the struggle we face daily as human beings, in this manner I am able to capture continues Battle we fight within our minds; and in the way we show it on our face expression. This notion inspired me to capture different face expressions relating to the struggles we face as human beings, they are the struggles we feel so ashamed to share with most people but as an artist my primary objective is to capture this expression on white paper with graphite pencil and charcoal. The purpose of drawing this face expression on paper is to help an individual to speak out in the season of their struggle. With over 20 years of experience as an artist with the use of different materials. FEMI IKOTUN was born 12th April 1991 in the city of LAGOS, NIGERIA, where he first discovered his talent at the age of 9. He later moved to the UK to continue his education and studied FOUNDATION IN ART & DESIGN, A 3D design course that covers ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN and FINE ART with a Diploma, and other series of DESIGN COURSES from Interior Design Institute AFRICA, with a CERTIFICATE in interior design/interior decoration, (IDI) - an online Education Programmers CANADA; where he obtained DIPLOMA in Interior Design. He later applied for university and was awarded a half scholarship. He is now a graduate from an online Educational institute Atlantic International University (AIU), AMERICA, and was able to obtain a 3.88 GPA and was also honored with a Cum Laude as an Interior Designer. He became the First Black Man to work in the Russia Takeda Art /Help, The Rule of the Exception He draws very realistic portraits of ordinary people capturing the various struggles we face as human beings. As an artist he started exploring firstly with paint for many years; and he was able to compete with other artists which helped him to mature on his skills. His art teachers were always interested in him as a student due to his creativity that others were fascinated about. He later became a self-taught artist and started on PORTRAIT DRAWINGS; and he continued to work on his craft for so many years until he later discovered an artist that inspired him to really take portrait art to another level with pencil and charcoal, it was then he became so serious about PORTRAIT ART and started to capture the series of struggles we face daily as human being.