Joshua is a Business Graduate who started his career in Graphic Design doing logos and posters (mostly for events in Abuja). Proficient at illustrating, he then moved to make digital art under a previous pseudonym.

In December 2018, a few weeks after graduating from university, he posted his first comic under his current pseudonym WoshDraws, and from an early run of initial virality, went on to build an audience, and since then has gone on to attempt expanding his creative expertise, venturing into 2d  and 3d Animation. His ultimate goal casts a wide net along with his interests, from Creating a Design and Ad agency, to becoming the next Disney, to one day going to space and then becoming President of Nigeria. Joshua, self admittedly can sometimes be unrealistic when it comes to making goals . Inspired by Philosophy, his values and world view are influenced Stoicism, Bushido, Kaizen, Existentialism, Jungian psychology and Christianity.

Joshua has served a large client base including high profile artists like Davido, Dj Spinall.

In December 2020, he collaborated on and released a comic book with Justin Ug and plans on releasing his first set of independent products 2021, his conscious attempt at setting realistic goals.

Its between taking a systematic approach or just following instincts, the instinctual is more fun since it just feels natural, bt sometimes there’s work to be done whether you’re feeling creative or not, which is where the systematic kicks In, for me its like the difference between writing a novel and writing a research paper.

How do I grow my account? & How do I start making Digital Art and Animations.

XP Pen tablet and FireAlpaca for drawing, and Pinterest for references.

After waking up and doing the needful (brushing bathing), I journal and timeblock my tasks for the day, usually 2 hour sprints with an hour break in between each sprint. On some days, shorter breaks in between sprints or more sprints. A good day is like 10 hour sprints, but I can’t come and kill myself, so some days its 7-8 hours. The evening break is usually longer, like 2 hours so I go on a walk.

I’ve been drawing since I was a child, then I fell off a bit after secondary school and came back on digitally towards the end of uni and professionally after.

One moment that comes to mind was in secondary school, I used to make comics in my sketchbook and there was a character that went “Ghost Mode” like the Phyno song, and me and some of my classmates went on a long ass discussion on character possibilities, I remember thinking hmm this is nice could do this lol.

I've been doing this full-time for about a year and half now, currently on contract for a start-up.

GUY! GUYY!! GUYYY!!! So many! All I can say is create a solid terms of service .

I think its inevitable, because if you aren’t growing, then you’re dying. For me creativity comes from ability to mix and match ideas in new and.novel ways. You can’t match ideas you’ve never had, so you need to learn new information and gather more knowledge to close the gap. The more you know the more creative you can be.

I have a lot! Scattered across different platforms and different media, I get a lot of inspiration from Anime, Manga, 90’s Cartoons, Classical Disney, Instagram artists, Takashi Murakami, History etc its somewhat scattered, but I think it makes sense small.

 I’ve suffered lol.

The later hours, I think my best ideas are the ones that are compelling enough to rob me of sleep. You know! When you’re about to crash and an idea so good pops in your head that writing it down for later isn’t enough.

You 👀👉🏾👈🏾,  Adidas too, I’ve been slanting towards learning Product and Industrial design lately, there’s so much going on in that space.

I'm better at giving advice to others on this than doing so myself, but i’d say leverage more on products and attention rather than your services. You can only do so much, create products, create intellectual property.

I was pretty occupied during the lockdown period, so I was always working on a project, the time flew by. However, my output did suffer (comic wise). I don’t think it has recovered since then idk, maybe it was the lockdown, maybe it was the workload. At least I didn’t have to do physical meetings.

Preferably to work In multiple countries, lmao japa dey do my body.

You can follow Wosh on Twitter and Instagram if you want to see his weekly comic strips. You can also check out his comic archive and free wallpapers here.

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