David-Josué OYOUA - Artistic Director & Visual Storyteller

I am David-Josué Oyoua, a digital artist based in Abidjan. I learned graphic and digital arts in a self-taught way, in parallel with my in medical sciences. Then I evolved professionally in the field of
communication and advertising with various agencies and companies where I proved my agencies and companies where I proved myself as a computer graphics designer, art director and today as a freelance creative director!
Passionate about art since my childhood, I already had good drawing skills it was my favorite hobby. Then as a teenager, with the advent of computers and the advent of computers and digital technology, I traded my brush and pencil for the mouse. I then became interested in computer graphics, more particularly in photomontage software, to the point of being literally addicted to it. By the way, the internet has been very useful in my training (which is not yet finished) because finished) because I didn't have the opportunity to go to an art school. In addition to defining myself as a self-taught digital artist, I like to call myself a "visual like to call myself a "visual storyteller" because I aim to tell stories through my
through my creations.
Besides all this, I have other strings to my bow: writing (poetry, short stories and scenarios) and music (Author-Composer-Songwriter).

My approach artistic approach
It is mainly a question of revisiting through my representations the scenes stories, mythologies, allegories, legends and popular tales with the ambition to "Africanize" them.
But my approach is not satisfied with just to change the color of the skin by using African models... I pay special attention to special attention to the costumes, the sets, the accessories... everything is contextualized to get as close as possible to the to the African culture.

My working technique is compositing, that is to say a mixture of photos taken from shot in studio and directed by me or often bought by myself or often bought in royalty-free banks of royalty-free images. I also use I also use computer generated images (modeling and 3D renderings) and touches of painting (digital painting) in my compositions.