Two drawings on black paper with (mostly) acrylic markers from a couple of years ago that I haven't posted on the fediverse before.
When I was a 4 years old, I wanted to be like Mr Spock. He was both my first love in life, and my literal idol for many years (and I met Leonard Nimoy years later, in 2005, at Star Trek's 40th anniversary party).
The first Star Trek movie in 1979 was also the first movie I ever saw in a theater, and I still remember Spock in his spacesuit flying towards V'ger. I'll always love my dad for taking me to the theater with him, he wanted me to embrace sci-fi as he had. And that I did!
I eventually followed Spock's footsteps to become a computer programmer, before my health failed me and became housebound, which is when I turned into art.
There's a review of my new collection of stories, Where Rivers Go to Die.
"Dila leverages his experience working in film to craft his prose, in his approach to plot, characterisation, structure, and tension in his stories. The intense, cross-genre assortment of stories collected here blends African spirituality with horror, the fantastical, and technology" https://locusmag.com/2023/07/eugen-m-bacon-reviews-where-rivers-go-to-die-by-dilman-dila/