Our news Era: Eli Waduba Yusuf, the 26 years old Nigerian hyperrealism PENCIL artist, based in Nigeria shared a post message in his twitter page waiting patiently hoping to be recognized after he successfully concluded his painting.
Waduba, a native of Kaduna in Nigeria northwest, is part of a growing collection of creatives using pencil charcoal and pull to produce hyperrealistic arts.
After days of anticipation along side thousands of retweets, likes, the artist's days of hardwork paid off, as his painting got to his one targeted audience, the American comedian Kevin Hart came across his(Waduba) painting.
“I see it and I want to purchase it.... I also want to support you and your amazing talent by giving you a fee to do a pencil drawing of 3 of my celebrity friends that I can gift it to. DM your info and let's get to work... ” Hart wrote on twitter.
To Waduba, it was the arrival of a journey that he embarked on several years ago and his payoff for all the hatdwork he putted into his talent.
“I hope he(Hart) would see it and actually believe he works see it someday” “But I did not know it works belhappen so fast”
“It has been so overwhelming and words cannot describe it, Kevin Hart has always been my favorite comedian”
“We have started the process of selling the portraits” he(Waduba) said.
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