TRENDING: ‘You Are A Wonderful Artist,’ Trump Praises Nigerian Who Painted His Portrait

Creative_Doks, a Nigerian Ballpoint artist has gotten the
attention of US President Donald Trump.

The picture of the painting went viral after Creative_Doks went
on his Twitter handle @Doks_Arts to share the image explaining that
it took him about 70 Hours to work on and achieve the final
result.

He also tagged the US President and asked for followers to
retweet till the US President sees it.

Luckily, Creative_Doks’ painting got the attention of Trump who
retweeted the tweet containing the image and described him as a
‘Wonderful Artist!.’ He also advised the Nigerian artist not to
give up on his dreams.

“Not only did I see it @Doks_Art, I think it is fantastic. You
are a wonderful artist, never give up your dream!,” Trump
tweeted.

Not only did I see it @Doks_Art, I think it is
fantastic. You are a wonderful artist, never give up your dream!
https://t.co/LVVCUJz5CW^[1][2]

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December
2, 2019^[3]

It will be recalled that a Nigerian pencil artist Eli Waduba,
recently sold his portrait to US Actor, Comedian, Kevin Hart.

My name is Eli Waduba Yusuf
Am a Nigerian, based in kaduna. Am a hyperrealism PENCIL Artist, I
hope to become like @Harinzeyart. Please
Retweet, let @KevinHart4real see it,
thank you pic.twitter.com/oYYUQxbK5e^[4][5][6]

— Eli Waduba (@EWaduba) February
25, 2019^[7]

After two days of putting the picture of the painting on Twitter
and thousands of retweets later, Waduba got audience of Kevin Hart
who acknowledged said “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.”

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