This young artist has an unusual backgroung : he describes himself as an autodidact, and has never taken a drawing lesson.
Fell in the illustration very young, at an age when most children play with coloring books, Djigui aldready draws his favorite cartoon characters.
This gift and love for the illustration are quickly rewarded. He is barely 9 years old, when he wins his first competition at Angouleme International Comics.
Following this victory, he develops his own, graphic style a cross between the manga, the comics and the Franco-Belgian graphic novels,he enter numerous competitions such as JAPAN EXPO.
Often finalist, he acquires a favorable reputation.
In 2007 after finishing a college degree in accounting, he realizes his dream and becomes a professional freelance artist. Since then, he has worked on projects in special events book, illustration and youth magazine, he also collaborated with artists from the hip hop scene, the entertainment world (Jamel Comedy Club) and with the famous TV network Game One.
Currently he is working on his own brand of clothers with his brother, Djigui is also awaiting publication on two projects: a youth book and a comic book wich is a humorous hommage to pop culture.
You can find his artwork in the video game DEVIL MAY CRY HD collection, in the manga DOFUS published by Ankama, and on his own website
http://djiguito.canablog.com/,
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