2024-07-31

The Sweeper podcast!

It's my favorite podcast covering all the niche football stories of the world! Go listen it here!

Thank you so much for featuring this work in the official account!

A watercolour painting of Lee & Paul looking outside a blue pixelated circle with a bunch of references to the podcast in the background. Clockwise from top right: San Marino(below nations are all national team crests), Malta, Faroe Islands, OFC Nations Cup trophy, UE Santa Coloma's squirrel, Bruno's Magpies crest, Mr Blobby, Conference League trophy, Austria Salzburg's angry Mozart with a violin, Coupe de France trophy, Greenland, Marshall Islands shirt, Liechtenstein, Austrian Bundesliga ball.

RIP Chris Bart-Williams and Kevin Campbell

Such a beautiful photo full of joy, yet it's so sad to see it now. The bright smiles on their face. Wish we could've seen them longer, but everything they did for Forest and all the other clubs will keep making us smile. Thank you.
Rest in peace, Bart and Kev.

A watercolour painting of that iconic photo when Chris Bart-Williams and Kevin Campbell joined Forest on the same day. They are standing in the City Ground with their backs against each other, wearing matching olive green suits, with their shirts in hand, turning to the camera with the brightest smiles on their face.

When they joined us together.

2024-07-26

#FFF8E7 Cosmic latte

The average color of the universe seen from Earth!

Character is tied to HJMT's "Color World" franchise.

Pixel art version

2024-07-14

Birth of a will

[1/2 of diptych]

"Is your will strong enough to even remember your own name? By what will do you live?"

Character "Jayeong" by HJMT, she's the double protagonist in his new series Confident Aubergine along with Jayeong. Please go check it out!

2024-07-13

The Sonic from Romania, Andrei Rațiu!

Am I even allowed to paint this as a Hungarian major?!
Just kidding, I just wanted to draw some dynamic poses 😂

2024-07-07

Josip Iličić

Read about his journey here:

As my loved ones suffer and things feel unchangeable, what can I do? Even in my worst times, I was never alone. Like Gasperini and Šimundža helped Jojo, I think of the people that stayed with me, and how I can do the same for others.
I dunno, maybe it'll get better.

A watercolour painting of Iličić. He is standing on a mountain shaped like the Triglav. His arms are widestretched and he is looking up at the sky. There are red lilies and purple flowers (that resemble the crests of Fiorentina and NK Maribor) on the Triglav. The wind blowing behind him is stylised as wavy black and blue stripes (that resemble La Dea's flowing hair on Atalanta's crest). Stars are scattered above his head, and the biggest ones are three six-pointed yellow stars (seen in the coat of arms of Slovenia). Pink eagles (that represent Palermo) fly among the stars.

2024-07-01

My trip to Europe for the first time! (with stickers and stadiums!)

This year, from January 26th to 31th, me and Mum to Europe for the first time! It was a package tour to Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic. WE visited basically all the famous placesHeroes Square, Buda Castle, Schönbrunn Palace, Hallstatt, České Budějovice, Prague's town square...but I'm not here to talk about that! I want to write about the things we enjoyed between.

First was the flight. We departed from Incheon at dawn and arrived in the afternoon at Václav Havel Airport. The night flight took more than 13 hours! I had two meals, slept a lot and watched the flight information on the seat monitor whenever I was awake. There was a feature that told you what major city was the closest to the current location. We flew above Kazakhstan... above Georgia... above Turkey... above Bulgaria... above Greece... Finally, when the arrow pointed to Adamclisi in Romania, my heart was pounding. We arrived at the centre of Europe! I'm here!

We travelled by bus. Crossing borders by road, that's unthinkable in Korea here! I was surprised by the view outside the windows, it was so different from home. There were so many windmills in the countryside, and the grass on the farmlands was green. Here the climate is very different, the land completely freezes over in winter so grass can't grow at all. I was also fascinated by the European number plates. All those cars were from different countries! I didn't want to fall asleep in the bus, so I counted some on the highway. This was the result:

CZ — 64
H — 134
A — 189
RO — 55
PL — 31
LT — 2
D — 19
SK — 30
BIH — 1
BG — 7
SRB — 17
TR — 14
FIN — 1
GR — 1
HR — 2
NMK — 3
MK — 1
F — 2
CH — 2
NL — 1
SLO — 3
UR — 1
MD — 1
E — 3
LV — 1
EST — 1
B — 1
L — 1

Our bus driver was Marek, and he was Czech. He was a great driver! I greeted him in Czech whenever we got on and off the bus. "Dobré ráno, dobrý den, dobrý večer, dobrou noc!" Our Korean guide, who also lives in the Czech Republic, advised us to say hello more often whenever we meet the locals in a hotel lift or somewhere else. As tourists from a faraway land, leaving a good impression on them will make everyone happy and they will likely be more friendly to us in the future also, he said.

I saw some stadiums outside the window too, I had to be very quick to take those photos.

Yes, of course, this trip was also about football. Even if I can't watch an actual match yet, I wanted to take a little peek of how's it like there. It wasn't too hard to find, because wherever we went, there were stickers! Football stickers, everywhere! No one else knew those were from ultras, but I knew about them and I was able to see them. I took lots and lots of photos, and here's the entirety of them! Please click on the image for all the good details!

The last day, before we returned back to Václav Havel Airport, we had exactly one hour of free time at the square. But I had an idea. Sparta Prague's Stadion Letná is pretty close to the square, so if I ask the guide to get me some tickets and hurry up after lunch...European football, here we come!

It was my first ever time visiting a European football stadium! Of course it was empty, but I was so happy. I bought a home shirt and a Sparta mascot plushie from the fanshop. Then we called the taxi to go back to the square, back to the airport, back home. Now my future goal is to visit a stadium full of passionate fans! This trip was one of the best moments of my life.

Goodbye Prague, for now. We will meet again!
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