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Toyin Odutola
Nigerian Artist
Born: 1985
About Because Before Comics People Time
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Edvard Munch Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill. Toyin Odutola
Before Whatever Think Mark Drawing About Purpose Make How Fit Race Fulfill Start Need
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime. Toyin Odutola
Before Mini Independent Memes Anime Comics Manga Interested Japanese Really Even Publishers
The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue. Toyin Odutola
Style Kid Detailed Layered Like Read Comics Lot Itself Very Influenced Graphic
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not. Toyin Odutola
Women Nervous Objectification About Because Artist Automatically Whether While Portraying
I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down. Toyin Odutola
Down Other Riot Totally Disappeared Houses Around Lot Up Child Moved Grew Burnt Two Pulled
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay. Toyin Odutola
Validity Okay See Push Know Wall Wanted Wanting Portrait Image Kept
The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much. Toyin Odutola
Great People Social Media Too Much Feeling Too Bit Followers About Crossroads Constructive Point Like Also Documenting Dialogue Lot Commenting Accumulate Where Process Little Social Themselves Much Really Media Now
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. Toyin Odutola
Else Someone Something Performance Identity Because Understand Came America African Who Even Based
It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face. Toyin Odutola
Time Together Language Face Draw Marks Kind Components Inside Weave Developed Over Come Like Sinews Up Form Breaking Breaking Up Plane Planes Landscape Each Basically

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