Happy Birthday j-hope! 🌻

[ID: Coloured pencil drawing on black paper, of a smiling young Korean man wearing a beige hat with sunflowers, bees, clouds and leaves on it; a green in-ear monitor; a white t-shirt; a thin necklace with a BTS logo pendant; and a beaded necklace with green pieces spelling out H-O-P-E in gold. A blue and purple horse character sits on his left shoulder, holding up a sign saying ‘You’re My’. Gold lettering above his right shoulder reads ‘i’m your’. The drawing lays on a wooden board with coloured pencils, marbles, gold paint and a glass dip pen arranged around it.]

Just a quick post to wish the one and only Hobi the happiest of birthdays and a coming year full of happiness and love!

I almost didn’t manage to finish this drawing in time 😅 I’ve been so busy that I only managed to start colouring a couple days ago and my foolish self decided to still go for A4 size even though I’ve never done a ‘big’ coloured pencil artwork before (and even small ones take forever! It’s the layering…) and even better (worse), on black paper which I’ve never tried either. BUT I ended up learning a lot, despite the stress (and aching neck). I do like how it turned out and I’m pleased that I tried something new!

(If anyone wants to know the materials: Arteza 120pc Coloured Pencils + Faber-Castell Mixed Media Pad in Black + Galaxy Colours Handmade Metallic Watercolours – I’m not sure of the exact colour as it was an unnamed freebie, but I’m guessing it’s ‘Golden Star’)

Wow, it’s been an entire month since my last post on here… I’m sorry I’ve been so absent, between my PhD application, starting my new jobs, researching for prints and art commissions and a whole bunch of other things, I’ve just been too tired the past few weeks to write or read much. Last week was especially exhausting. I’m hoping I can use this week(end) to recalibrate and get back to blogging! Hopefully my review of ‘Iron Widow’ will be up in a few days…

Thanks for reading! How is everyone doing? Read/watched anything great lately? Hope you’ll have a great weekend 💜

7 thoughts on “Happy Birthday j-hope! 🌻”

I love all the details in this picture! ❤ The two necklaces and Mang! Also the colours turned out great considering it's on black paper. XD It probably wasn't easy to make them strong like that.

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Sabrina @ Notes From a Paper Plane Nomad says:

18th Feb 2022 at 9:14 pm

Aw thank you so much V!! Mang was one of my fave parts to do hehe 💜✨ Yeah it was no easy task not gonna lie 😂😭 I actually had one bout of hysterical laughter because I was probably on my 5th or 6th layer over the tiniest part of his shirt lol and there was still the rest to do.

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1. The Sassy Library Fox says:
  
  19th Feb 2022 at 9:32 am
  
  You’re welcome! =) He looks so cute! 💜 Haha! I can imagine that all too well. I remember drawing on black paper when I was a teen and boy did it go into my fingers. XD You did amazing though! =)
  
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  1. Sabrina @ Notes From a Paper Plane Nomad says:
    
    19th Feb 2022 at 12:12 pm
    
    Thank you!! 😍💜 Hahaha yeah it does even my whole arm/shoulder was so tired 😂 it’s really fun though! Just maybe not as much fun under time pressure 😅
    
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