About
Anthony Ketuojor Ikediuba, who goes by Ketu, is an illustrator and musician, living in Los Angeles, CA. His most recent book, Serena Williams: A Little Golden Book Biography, is now available for purchase. He has had the pleasure to work with Netflix, Meta(Formerly known as Facebook), ACLU, Adobe, the NFL, and other clients. He is currently available for work.
Photo by McKayla Chandler
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Los Angeles, CA
work@ketutheartist.com
Music Instagram: @ketuikediuba
Artwork Instagram: @ketutheartist
Anthony K. Ikediuba
Los Angeles, CA · work@ketutheartist.com · www.ketutheartist.com
Professional Experience
Concept Artist | Illustrator | Storyboard Artist
KETUTHEARTIST, Los Angeles, CA, 2015-Present
Contract Illustrator and Designer
Direct wide variety of projects for clients to achieve intended vision and goals. Conceive and develop original concepts to meet high standards and produce creative designs in alliance with defined objectives. Monitor popular cultural trends and current events to deliver relevant artwork, remain fluent in a variety of styles, and engage audiences in musical entertainment and sports industries.
Selected Projects:
· Bold Black LA & Walk Good LA – Sept 2025: illustrated a graphic for their joint cookout
• Little Golden Book & Pinguin Random House – June 2024 to Feb 2025: Illustrated a children’s biography book on the life of Serena Williams
• Bold Black LA – Oct 2024: Designed images and graphics for their 2024 Voter Guide
• Print Depot, Los Angeles – March 2024 to August 2024: design graphics and facilitate the printing for various print jobs like business cards, flyers, posters, books and tags for merchandise.
• Chris Goode & Ruby Jeans Juicery – Feb 2024 to Sept 2024: Illustrated the children’s book “Ruby Jeans Garden”
• W.W Norton – Aug 2023 – Sept 2023: Illustrated the book cover to the young readers edition to Caster Semenya’s book, “The Race To Be Myself”
ACLU – August to Sept 2022: Illustrated images for their 2021-2022 Year End Report
· ACLU CalAction – Sept to Oct 2022: Illustrated images for their primary national action points
· Dorling Kindersley - Nov 2021 to March 2022: Illustrated portraits for book, “Life Lessons From Hip-Hop” By Grant Brydon
· Illo Agency - Nov 2021 to June 2022: Illustrated 6 childrens books, 5 for Crabtree Books – Magic Strong book series, 1 for Benchmark – “Game to 7”, 1 for Collins Big Cat – “Boy! The Lion Keeper”
· ACLU – March to April 2022: Illustrated poster and made social media assets for the ACLU California Action Conference 2022
· Traphouse - Nov 2021: Illustrated sports poster paintings for their new signees
· Black Is The Color Of - Sept 2021: Illustrated a 33 page coloring book for all ages that looks at life for African Americans in the 1950s
· Junebug - June 2021: Designed graphics and merchandise for the creator of the Junebug dance challenge
· Adobe – Oct 2020: Illustrated storyboards for an ad on creativity featuring Lil Nas X
· Team Epiphany – March 2020: Illustrate for their Team Epiphany Times Article "The Old’s Are Fully Online Now"
· Netflix – January 2020: Illustrated portraits for their annual Black History Month mural for both the Los Angeles and Los Gatos locations
· NFL Social Lab – Aug to Oct 2019: Contribute original illustrations for use by NFL and NFL players to enhance social media accounts with more than 52M followers on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter.
· Universal Music Group - May 2019: Developed multiple logos and cover art designs for music company’s artists.
· Facebook - February 2019: Collaborated with 13 other artists to create drawings and paintings for greeting cards on demand at The Valentine Factory – a live annual event.
Technical Proficiencies
· Adobe Illustrator
· Adobe Photoshop
· Adobe Premiere Pro
· Adobe InDesign
· Adobe Animate
· Adobe After Effects
· MS Word
· MS Excel
· MS PowerPoint
Education
Situ Art Academy, 2019 – Pasadena, CA
Course: Analytical Figure Drawing
Brainstorm School, 2019 – Burbank, CA
Courses studied: Perspective Bootcamp, World-Building 1, Design with Color and Light
Otis College of Art and Design, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA
Courses studied: Life Drawing, Drawing and Building Form, Principles of Design, Connections through Color
Associates Degree, Graphic Design, 2016, 3.5 GPA | Westwood College – South Bay, Torrance, CA