Agbako battle
*by ROGER OKEWOLE--Illustration for a chapter of a book 'Forest of A Thousand Demons: A Hunter's Saga. Swords and Sorcery' by D.O. Fagunwa (1939!), translated by the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka

Pencils, digital inking and painting

The main character is an adventurer called Akara-Ogun and, to my sci-fi comic-book nerd’s perspective, he’s a cross between the #Witcher#RogueTrooper and #ConanTheBarbarian.
This scene shows where the hero Akara-Ogun confronts a sixteen-eyed forest #ogre named Agbako who was armed with two mighty clubs and protected by iron armor.

Roger Okewole
Roger Okewole

Roger is a US-based self-taught illustrator who founded his graphic arts company, 9ja Pop Art in 2011. The company focuses on pop art graphic lines themed around various inspirations. One of these graphic lines is the Afrikkan Pantheon line which is a small attempt to take some control of the African narrative in diaspora through pop art illustrations. Amongst many projects within this line are depictions of Sub-Saharan deities in the pop art illustration genre. Also illustrations from the "History of the Yorubas" by the Reverend Samuel Johnson and from "Forest of a Thousand Demons" by D.O. Fagunwa.

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