Kosi the Creator

Badlands

2025 · Digital illustration

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Standing robed figure in blue with arms outstretched, two dark leaping hounds below, orange sky and pale sun behind
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I make work about how I see the world, bent toward the surreal, where the details get skewed until the picture says something the reference did not. Fashion, film and music all feed it. The eye that keeps coming back is how I stay present in the work, with or without a signature.

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What the film shows

A silent time-lapse, thirty seconds. It opens on the finished picture, then returns to white, where the nested spheres are drawn as flat concentric rings in line and the standing figure is painted almost to completion very early. The rest of the film is spent on the setting: the same composition appears against a near-black ground, then a brown one, and at one point the tiled floor sits alone on the screen with nothing on it. The pale room and the receding grid are the last state.

Observatory process

The figure is settled early. The room around it takes the rest of the film, through several grounds before the right one.

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Practice

Kosi Okafor in a patterned head wrap and wire-rimmed glasses, head turned away from the camera. Black and white, shot from below in low light.

I would call myself a non-conformist, multifaceted, surrealist artist. I pull from a lot of places at once and look for a way to put it into figures people already recognise.

Fashion runs through most of it, film sets the tone, and music is usually somewhere underneath. The work is made in Procreate and starts faint, thin lines at low opacity, getting darker until the idea is visible. It is built in grayscale before any colour goes down, because that is what says whether the picture is working.

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Commissions, exhibitions and collecting

Commissions are open for brand work, illustration and cover artwork. Exhibition, press and collecting enquiries are welcome too.