Works on Paper

THE PENCIL ARCHIVE

Find your way through 33 selected studies by Thomas Ogun. Each drawing begins with observation, memory or a symbolic question, then stays open as the visual language develops.

Evidence Archive

Drawing as a practiceof attention.

This selected archive documents 33 pencil studies developed through observation, imagination and symbolic research. The drawings move between portraits, figures, animals, masks, mythic forms and pattern-led compositions.

Working in graphite slows the image down. It gives me space to study gesture, expression and cultural reference before translating those observations into colour, digital illustration, moving image or augmented reality. The page becomes both a place of invention and a record of thought.

Selected Works

One evolving language.

Graphite is where the work slows down: figures, animals, masks, symbols and imagined histories become a record of attention before they move into colour, film or augmented reality.

Pencil study of a standing figure surrounded by floating symbolic forms
01

Ancestral Keeper

Detailed graphite study of a human eye
02

The Remembering Eye

Pencil study of a seated figure with a cat
03

Kinship at Rest

Graphite portrait of a seated figure in an interior
04

Ancestral Seat

Pencil drawing of a reclining figure beside an animal form
05

Spirit of the Wild

Pencil drawing of a multi-armed mythic figure
06

Woyingi

Pencil study of a child with large letter forms behind the figure
07

Child of Power

Pencil study of a decorated standing figure
08

Adorned in Memory

Pencil study of a horned or masked symbolic figure
09

Prince of Spirits

Graphite portrait of a veiled woman
10

Veiled Ancestry

Pencil study of a carved or feathered mask
11

Mask of the Ancestors

Graphite side-profile study of a long-haired figure
12

Lineage in Profile

Pencil profile study surrounded by organic forms
13

Between Worlds

Symbolic pencil composition combining a figure and drawn text
14

Archive of Home

Pencil study of a seated figure wearing a necklace
15

Bearer of Tradition

Pencil study of a figure in a sculptural costume
16

Ceremonial Self

Graphite drawing of two animal or creature forms
17

Dying World

Pencil study of a stylised figure in costume
18

Dressed in Heritage

Pencil landscape study combining built forms and a tree
19

House of the Ancestors

Pencil portrait of a seated figure surrounded by symbols
20

Woman of the Symbols

Abstract pencil composition combining faces, marks and symbols
21

Fragments of Home

Pencil drawing of an open-mouthed crowned figure
22

Voice of the Ancestors

Pencil figure holding a staff beside an animal motif
23

Sacred Path Walker

Graphite portrait of a decorated figure in profile
24

Marked by Ancestry

Pencil study of a vessel or figure with repeated symbolic forms
25

Vessel of Memory

Pencil drawing of a reclining figure on an animal form
26

Myth Under the Skin

Pencil composition of a horned animal surrounded by faces and symbols
27

Past People

Pencil study of masks and repeated pattern symbols
28

Pattern of Belonging

Pencil study of masked figures and cultural symbols
29

Guardians of Heritage

Pencil drawing of a strong mythic figure
30

Strength of the Ancestors

Pencil concept sheet showing figures, notes and visual ideas
31

Map of Human History

Pencil study of a seated figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat
32

Witness in Stillness

Pencil drawing of two figures or faces facing a tree-like form
33

The Fall of Man