Special present made for my brother's birthday

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Today is my brother's 28th birthday... and I'm pretty broke. So I made him something that I hope he appreciates.
A hanging picture arrangement of handinked/drawn chinese style ink drawings.

Picture frames are old ones that I haven't had a use for that originally came from the dollar store. They were never meant to be hung on a wall, so I tore the part that rests on a table off... and connected the frames with twine which I braided... (not sure what style its called), and in the frames, I put pen nib india ink drawings that I made inspired by chinese ink painting/drawings.


The full gift hanging on the wall.



Detail of the twine at the top wrapped and tied around a car key keychain metal circle



Close up of bottom twine connected and wooded beads hanging



The three images that I drew on small creative craft paper swatches with a pen nib and india ink. I was referencing Chinese ink paintings for inspiration. I glued the swatches of paper to red paper cut to the size of the inside of the picture frame.



A close up of the warrior ink drawing to show the texture of the paper.