Patrick Chuka LA --:--

A language I learned before I had words.

I've been making things since I traced the curve of a cup in red crayon in Lagos. Today that's drawings, books, worlds and the systems behind them, all drawn from the same well: the life I've lived and the people who shaped it.

Patience "Ndidi", Ballpoint pen on paper · 40 × 60 in, 2023

Patience "Ndidi", Ballpoint pen on paper, 2023

Open to collaborations Artist · Author · Worldbuilder Los Angeles

As long as I keep creating, I'm co-creating with the universe itself.

Galaxy
01 / 04 Hand Pen and pencil since I was two. The first tools I held are still the ones I trust.
02 / 04 Mind Self-taught. I learn by making, and I make to understand.
03 / 04 Ancestry Lagos shaped how I see. My culture lives in how I name my work.
04 / 04 Worlds Books, 3D, Times Square screens: the work keeps growing past the page.

The thesis

It's a ritual, not a technique.

Creativity is how we evolve. The first mark on a cave wall and the code running this page come from the same instinct: to reach past what we are toward what we could become. I don't separate art from technology. A ballpoint, a book, a world, a machine: different materials, one ritual.

Every drawing makes the invisible visible. Every system I build gives that vision a longer reach. Both are the same act of becoming.

Patrick Chuka

Selected works

Original art, over the years.

Patience "Ndidi"

Ballpoint pen on paper · 40 × 60 in · 2023

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New book

The Scapegoat That Grew Wings

A visual mythology of exile, transformation, and the wings we grow in the dark. For the outsiders. The othered. The ones who survived.

Format
Illustrated novel, 150+ pages
Editions
Paperback and ebook
Chapters
14
Artwork
Pen and pencil
The Human Project book cover

The Human Project · 2026

The Human Project

An illustrated art book exploring identity, memory, and what it means to be human through portraiture and narrative.

Work with me

Let's build something together.

The same hand that draws for hundreds of hours also builds brands, campaigns and the systems behind them. If you're making something that deserves to exist, I'm open to building it with you.

Art projects
Collaborations, exhibitions, worlds and series made together.
Branding
Identity, story and visual language with a soul in it.
Marketing
Campaigns, content and creative direction that move people.
Tech
Websites, AI systems and automation for creative work.

Private portrait commissions are rare and by conversation only.

Thoughts & Prayers

From the journal.

All essays
  1. life Advice to my younger self... Jan 2026
  2. life African Boy Bible (Podcast) Jan 2026
  3. life Dreams of America Jan 2026
  4. life Don’t worry, all the adults terrorizing the world will be dead soon. Jun 2024
Patrick Chuka

Fuel the studio

Buy me a coffee.

As long as I keep creating, I'm co-creating with the universe. If something here moved you, a coffee keeps the next creation coming.

Letters from the studio

See new work first.

Originals before they're listed, print drops and book news. A few letters a month.

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