#WeAreNigerianCreatives Inspires Internet-Based Audience

With an incredible amount of patience and skills, hyper realistic drawings, which refer to producing artwork that resembles real life, are currently flooding the Nigerian art. Fatola Israel is one of the many artists representing this genre of art work. While there are many ways as an artist to express one’s imagination on the surface of paper, Fatola Israel’s work is one of a marvel as he uses graphite pencil to  create drawings that attain a high level of realism. Israel is a multi-award winning realist visual artist.

#WeAreNigerianCreatives

His artworks, like many other Nigerian artists’, is published on Twitter, due to a popular hashtag, #WeAreNigerianCreatives, which is geared to promote Nigerian creatives as they do not get enough recognition for their work and talent. See more

My name is John Owoh, and I’m a pencil artist from Nigeria.

Here is some of my recent work#WeAreNigerianCreatives pic.twitter.com/9dJrPaAlW7 — John Owoh (@iamjohnowoh) April 11, 2018

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These are not photographs. ?They’re graphite and charcoal drawings by Arinze Stanley ( @Harinzeyart )

RT to show the world! pic.twitter.com/Wxpit5TPma — #WeAreNigerianCreatives (@artmonnk) April 13, 2018

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My painting ‘PORTRAIT OF A LADY( 2016) Vs ANWULIKA (2017) Oil and acrylic on canvas. #WeAreNigerianCreatives pic.twitter.com/U4W6fzZmws

— Nnadi Ikechukwu ?? (@NnadiArts1) April 12, 2018

Originally created by visual artist, Olaloye Bunmi, numerous artists are showcasing their beautiful works on the digital space. The hashtag has gone viral since it appeared on the 22^nd February, 2018, and has been used over 50,000 times by Nigerians at home and in the diaspora. Although the waves of publicity had dampened, the campaign still resonates on our timelines because as we know, the internet never forgets.