2025-12-31

RIP John Robertson

'John Robertson was a very unattractive young man. If one day, I felt a bit off colour, I would sit next to him. I was bloody Errol Flynn in comparison. But give him a ball and a yard of grass, and he was an artist, the Picasso of our game.' —Brian Clough 

Tribute for Robbo. I can't actually do cubism, but I tried to imitate its mood.
It's the end of the year and as time keeps passing, our greatest legends will leave us one by one… And I don't think my heart will ever be ready for any of that news.

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2025-11-20

AIM FOR EUROPA

First painting (plus a bit of digital collage) after a 3-month break!

A mixed media artwork of watercolour + digital pixel art. A white pixelated silhouette of Robin Hood with a bow (based on the Robin Hood statue in Nottingham Castle) is overlayed on top of a red and black pixelated map of Europe. On the bottom side there is an overlayed close-up scene of Ndoye holding up a bow and arrow like the Robin Hood silhouette on a green background with a red-white outline(colours of the flag of Notttinghamshire). Deep orange and black sparks come out the arrowtip, similar to the Europa League graphics. Where the sparks and the silhouette overlap, the sparks scatter into orange and black pixels on top of the white. All parts of the artwork was hand painted except the pixelated map in the background.
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2025-08-08

Echoes of Forgotten Dreams

I was a beta tester for this game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3435920/Echoes_of_Forgotten_Dreams/

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2025-07-31

Welcome Dan Ndoye!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Dan Ndoye holds up the Coppa Italia trophy with a big grin. Behind him is the coccarda(the cockade of Italy) and the ribbons on the trophy are curled in circlar shapes. Next to him is the text 'Welcome!' with two stars written in a half-circle.
He sure knows how to score trophy-winning goals!

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2025-07-30

Details of the Trent Bridge

It's beautiful! This time I wanted to paint something different than usual, something of Nottingham that isn't always shown live to football audiences.

A watercolour painting of the three intricate circular decorations on the Trent Bridge, painted in dark cyan.
A watercolour painting of the three intricate circular decorations on the Trent Bridge, painted in bright blue.
The original painting. The colours were digitally altered to match the bridge's colours.
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2025-07-29

The temple that Nuno built

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. A simplified Greek temple stands between the abstract red, blue and white waves, except its three columns are Nuno's three Manager of the Month awards, and there is the Forest crest on the pediment. The awarded dates 2024-10, 2024-12, 2025-03 are written on each of the columns. Behind the temple is Nuno with sunglasses poking out of the bottom 'waves' part of the Forest crest, smirking and hitting the 'call me' pose.
This was an unfinished sketch way back from April. 😅

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2025-07-25

Chloe Kelly!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Chloe Kelly is standing confidently with her head held high, her legs crossed, her one arm on her waist and the other resting on the corner flag. Behind her are two slanted, crisscrossed streaks of light made out of clusters of red, blue and purple. Grey sparkles are scattered on the white background.
Congratulations, Lionesses!

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2025-07-23

Descansem em paz, Diogo e André.

Rest in peace, Diogo and André.

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Diogo is doing his 'gamer' celebration-he sits on the ground with his hands like he's holding a console. Andre stands next to him and leans down to hug his face. Behind them is a big number 20 and the letters 'DIOGO J.' like the back of a shirt on a white background. The number 20 is coloured in multiple patches of bright red, brick red, maroon, gold and teal with the silhouettes of a red Liver bird, black wolf, green dragon (his 3 major clubs Liverpool, Wolves and Porto) and a teal shooting star soaring upwards layered on it. Next to Diogo are the letters 'Descansem em paz' ('rest in peace' in Portuguese).

I had to do some careful colour planning before picking up the brush.
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2025-07-17

The stripes on our shirt

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Yates is wearing the new Forest shirt with white trousers and sneakers. He is holding a bow. The abstract background has red stripes with arrowheads and fletchings on each end. Red ovals are layered on the stripes, the stripes that overlap with the ovals are in deep red and white, like the stripes on the shirt.
Love it!
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2025-07-10

Diagram of Hatred / Madness / Ugliness

Original characters by HJ_MT_

Character profiles: 惡 [Hatred] / 狂 [Madness] / 凶 [Ugliness]

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2025-07-09

'Take us on a trip…'

I doubted whether to finished this or not as we're stuck in a limbo right now, but I already had the idea sketched ever since that match, so I decided to just go with it.

Wherever we end up, we're going together!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. A cyan bus drives towards the right in a pitch black background with its head slightly pointing skyward. There are many flags and stickers that represent Forest on the bus. Two Forest scarves wave out of one of its windows. Numerous green waves and foam stylised as lines and circles that reference the Conference League graphics billow beneath the wheels. Above the bus is a pink ribbon with the text 'TAKE US ON A TRIP…' with two Champions League trophies next to it, and a brown sign that points towards the direction the bus is facing and with the text 'Europe' with a football next to it. The background has two red stars and several green waves.

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2025-07-07

Bem-vindo Igor!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The painting is stylised like a scene in an anime with black bars over and below the frame. A closed up Igor Jesus prepares to shoot a ball of energy from his palms. Rays of black, white and red bursts out of the ball and onto the black bars like a 3D effect.
His "Kamehameha" singnature after beating PSG in the Club World Cup!
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2025-05-31

24/25 Champions League final

Félicitations, PSG!
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2025-05-25

Whatever happens, we will rejoice!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The City Ground lies next to the River Trent. Fireworks burst into dark blue star shapes above the stadium, leaving trails of straight orange lines and curvy green lines reminiscent of the Europa League and Conference League graphics.
Because we're going to Europe!
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Pilinszky János: A tengerpartra

A tengerpartra kifekszik a tenger,
a világ végén pihen a szerelmem,
mint távoli nap vakít a szivem,
árnyéka vagyunk valamennyien.

The sea lies down on the sea-coast,
my love rests at the back of beyond,
my heart dazzles like a faraway sun,
we are shadows of it, all of us.

Translation by N. Ullrich Katalin

 

Fanart of Echoes of Forgotten Dreams, a game to be released on Steam.
I participated as one of the beta testers. 

NEXT
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2025-05-16

25/26: See you in Europe!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. MGW is lying on a Europa League ball floating in black space. Two blue and white Champions League balls, an another Europa League ball and two Conference League balls are also floating in the background. The black space is studded with blue and white stars. A thick cluster of straight orange lines and curved green lines flow across the canvas behind everything else. The Forest crest in white lines sits on the top centre of the canvas.

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2025-05-08

Aspmyra—a special place in the Arctic

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The Aspmyra Stadion stands amidst the snow. Beneath the stadium are the club's crest and the stadium's name and coordinates 'ASPMYRA 67°16′36″N 14°23′4″E'. Several buildings and Bodø's landmarks are behind the stadium: Aspåsen school, Norge War Memorial, Nordland Museum and Bodø kommune. Behind the buildings lies a deep blue sea with Landegode on the horizon. A giant yellow toothbrush stands askew next to the island. Behind the toothbrush, a giant yellow lynx leaps across the pitch black sky studded with yellow stars. Yellow, black and white stars spill from the top centre of the canvas onto the stadium.
Bodø/Glimt, a club in the Arctic Circle.
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2025-04-12

Må nästa värld vara snällare mot dig.

May the next world be kinder to you.
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2025-04-02

SHUT EVERYTHING OUT AND PLAY YOUR GAME

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. MGW is closing his eyes and covering his ears in a black background. He is surrounded by numerous white and cyan electric bolts that spreads out from a white halo behind his head. The text below says 'SHUT EVERYTHING OUT AND PLAY YOUR GAME'.
Painting of the Forza Garibaldi tifo from last year!
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2025-03-25

Springbloom

By Spehs & HJMT
https://k-bms.com/party_pabat/party.jsp?board_num=25&num=37

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2025-03-21

Big Six all beaten!

I forgot today was Cloughie's birthday. Oh how much he would be proud of us… 🥲

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Callum Hudson-Odoi sits on top of a battered red cannon with its head stuck on the ground and has white and broken wheels. He smiles and holds a gold mast with ripped sails in his left hand and a red branch with three leaves in his right. Next to the cannon is a red trident and a blue rod protuding from the ground. Both are broken and chipped and a dark blue and white football is skewered on the trident's handle. A gray, light red and gray band billows from the top right into the bottom in the background that represents Forest's tifo at the match against City, which they won. On the top left is a tally mark of 6 lines of the Big Six clubs' colors that indicates Forest's victories against them in the Premier League by date order—red, red, blue, red, dark blue, sky blue. The first and fourth red lines are thin double lines since Forest beat Liverpool and Man United both home and away.
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2025-03-19

I have faith that we can do it!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Nuno is grinning while holding the FA Cup next to him with his left hand and hugging the Champions League ball with his right arm. Behind him is the Forest crest.
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2025-03-01

To Munich & Madrid

This and the previous 7-0 were a bit inspired by the Vienna Secession posters I saw at the National Music of Korea.
The guy is Larry Lloyd, RIP.

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The background is vertically divided into 3 parts—a white centre that covers half of the canvas with two red sides. Larry Lloyd stands in the centre and smiles down as he holds up a giant Champions League trophy above his head. White radial lines come out of the trophy on top of the red parts, which stretches down to form a star shape on each end of the bottom of the canvas. Below Larry is a small Forest crest with the text 'TO MUNICH & MADRID' in all caps.
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2025-02-21

It's a 7-0!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Wood and Elanga is holding up three fingers while confidently smiling at the viewer. Wood is also holding the Premier League ball. There are six thick lines in the background that creates seven spaces that represent the seven goals. Three goal and assist marks are connected to Wood and Elanga. In the first space there is Dunk with crossed out eyes. In the last space Jota Silva is doing his celebration. On the very top is the letter 7-0 with cropped out rectangles of Forest and Brighton's crests on each side, except the Brighton seagull has crossed out eyes.
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2025-02-14

I think football saved my life (an honest comic about how it feels)

Some feelings that I don't generally show in my art

A four-panel comic in watercolour. [1st] The artist's avatar(a brick red lindworm) looks out the balcony window with a snowy hill visible outside and thinks 'I hope spring won't come this year'. [2nd] Same scene viewed from outside the window and closed up. It thinks 'I doubt it will. Everything is dying and it's our fault, we don't deserve flowers' [3rd] A closeup that only the lindworm's eye is visible. There is a big '!' and a speech bubble that reads 'But… if it never gets warm, when will I start wearing football shirts?' Below is a small drawing of the lindworm wearing a padded jacket and shivering. [4th] The lindworm wearing a Maribor 24/25 away shirt frolicks on a sunny green and yellow field. There are plants that resemble club crests: a green and red tree on the horizon(Southampton and Forest), a red lily with purple leaves(Fiorentina), a green plant(Fenerbahçe), a red rose(Blackburn), a four-leaf clover(Celtic) and two three-leaf clovers(Fürth/Panathinaikos/Omonia).
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2025-02-07

🍺On the piss with Nuno🍺

Inspired by the Gedling Inn story!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. The background is a repeated pattern of tilted pint glasses. The glasses are randomly full, half, or almost empty. On the centre are Yates and Nuno doing a toast while smiling at the viewer. Two red lines tipped with a star shoot out from between their glasses. They are between two lines of red text that reads 'ON THE PISS' on the top and 'WITH NUNO' on the bottom, with the top 'I' replaced with a glass of pint. The two and the text are surrounded by a bold black outline to better seperate them from the background.
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2025-02-04

WWWWWW from December to January!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. There are six Ws. The first W is coloured yellow, orange, red with a fire pattern and pictures MGW snapping a devil's trident in half. The second W is sky blue with claret and gold swirl patterns and frames Milenkovic shouting with his fists held up. The third W is striped red and white and frames Aina winking and sipping a box of Ribena. The fourth W is dark blue with white snowflakes and frames Elanga with a Santa hat holding a gift box that has a Premier League ball. The fifth W is a blue brick pattern on a white back and frames Nuno with two Manager of the Month trophies in his arms. The sixth W is gold and frames Awoniyi and Wood raising up their hands in joy. On the right side of each of the Ws, there are small heads of a devil, a lion, a bee, a cockerel, the Everton lock-up, and a wolf that lie askew with crossed out eyes. The text right in the middle reads '2024-12-07—2025-01-14'. Six green circles are on the left side of the text.

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2025-01-31

'The Serbinator' Nikola Milenković!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Milenković wearing the Forest home kit stands in a pitch black background. He wears sunglasses and has a stern face. He holds up a handgun in his right hand and his left hand rests on a shield with the Serbian cross on it. Dark red lines spread out from behind his back, a reference to The Terminator's poster. A red outline of a tree shaped like the Forest crest stands behind his back with rectangles scattered on it like a 'digital' effect. A red lily shaped like the one on the old Fiorentina crest with violet leaves is next to the tree, it also has the 'digital' effect. The floor is pitch black and the surface fades into white. Beneath Nikola's feet are black and white rectangles, which are the colours of Partizan, his boyhood club. On the top there is bold red text that reads 'MILENKOVIĆ' with the accent of 'Ć' overlapping with the 'C' to form a white part. The below text in the font of The Terminator's poster reads 'THE SERBINATOR'.

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2025-01-27

Matz Sels—in the middle of our goal!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Sels is standing in front of the goalpost, smiling and his arms stretched. The netting behind him is stylised to look like a brick wall pattern. Red, gray and green triangular abstract patterns are spreading out behind Sels in the centre, which was inspired by the Adidas 24/25 goalkeeper template.
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2025-01-24

Who knew we would be fighting for Europe?

A two-panel cartoon painted in watercolour. The first panel on the top is labeled as Matchweek 1. Frustrated-looking Nuno and expressionless Iraola are shaking hands with the club badges shown beside them. Above them is the scoreboard 1-1. The second panel on the bottom is labeled as Matchweek 23. It shows a close-up of Iraola and Nuno with bloodshot eyes angrily staring at each other with flames burning in the background.
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2025-01-22

We're in your head, in your head, Arne, Arne, Arne-ne-ne-ne-🎶

 Sung the tune of The Cranberries - Zombie 🎶

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Arne Slot keeps thinking about Forest so hard that the Forest logo appears on his bald forehead and red wavy ripples come out of it. He is wincing and grasping the sides of his head while miniature versions of Wood, Nuno, Sels and Murillo surrounded in red ripples circle around his head and laugh down at him.

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2025-01-09

We're living in Slot's head 😏

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Arne Slot thinks about Forest so hard that the Forest logo appears on his bald forehead and red circular waves come out of it. He is wincing with both hands on the side of his head while Nuno smirks in the background.
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2025-01-07

Срећан Божић, Миленковић!

January 7th is Christmas in Serbia!

A cartoon-style watercolour painting. Nikola Milenković wearing a Christmas hat is running across some snowy hills with a Champions League ball in his hand. A trail of red stars come out of the ball. He is pointing towards the black night sky where there are two big red stars. The bigger star shines down a beam of red light like the Star of Bethlehem. There are some trees on the hills that is shaped like the Forest badge. There is red text on the top right that says "Срећан Божић!" which is "Merry Christmas!" in Serbian.
Srećan Božić, Milenković!
Merry Christmas, Milenković!
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