Kevin Hart inspired an internet’s feel-good story by buying a young Nigerian artist’s portraits

          

Drawing portraits of celebrities and tagging them on Twitter and Instagram in the hope they see it is a common marketing trick for aspiring artists.

But given the manic speed of social media interactions where an A-list celebrity can get ten of thousands of mentions, the chances of getting a response of any kind is pretty slim—unless you’re lucky as Eli Waduba Yusuf, a Nigerian hyperrealism pencil artist. Waduba’s celebrity muse was Kevin Hart, arguably Hollywood’s hottest comedian at the moment. By itself, the hyperrealistic portrait of Hart proved striking enough to gain attention on Twitter but then things took an even better turn.