Sowwy
“The first movie poster I made was for The Thief of Baghdad. It gave me a very big name in town. I really enjoyed painting movie posters. In 1996, the amount of money the video centers were paying for a poster was quite small. At that rate, even buying the materials was very difficult for me, so I had to stop painting posters.”
Seminal Tema region artist and teacher within the first generation of Golden Age movie poster painters. Apprentice of Fasin Art Base circa 1983–1986. “Master” to Death is Wonder, his first apprentice. A great rippler of clothing and undulator of surfaces. One of the first artists to give the effect of wind tunnel compressed flesh to the faces of his action heroes whose muscles he can equally make protuberant and well defined. A versatile painter who excels both in realistic jungle foliage and abstracted cityscapes as backgrounds. He often outlines his posters with a thin yellow border. Began painting movie posters in 1991. Pioneered what became the holy grail of segmented insect larval fire, copied by many. Today is a practicing preacher and only part-time painter.