Posted 21 days ago

BTS ARMY Members - Iconic Fan Moments for Unofficial Visual Bio

I’m drawing an unofficial visual biography about BTS that will be published this year. Wanted to hear from you, ARMY: what’s your most memorable moment as a fan that CAN NOT be missing? ☺️ Hello everyone! I’m posting here because a BTS fan told me this would be a great place for the discussion I want to bring! First of all, this is not promotion or self advertising at all. I’m an author publishing books through HarperCollins, and they already do a much better job promoting than I do lol. I’m an author and illustrator, and my drawing style is Search and Find (yes, if you thought aboutWhere’s Waldo?, you got it right). I’m currently in the final steps of finishing the research and illustrations for an unofficial visual biography about BTS in Search and Find style. Some of you may know my previous work, theUnofficial Search and Find Biography about Taylor Swift, published last year. I wasn’t a BTS fan and honestly didn’t know much about them before this project, though I always lovedBoy With Luv* *lol 😆. But after researching the group, listening to all the albums, trying to understand their thoughts and feelings through the lyrics, and getting immersed in the BU lore, I started respecting them even more. I could really relate to the anxiety and anger from the Skool Trilogy era, especially the fear of not becoming an artist and ending up trapped in a corporate career you don’t believe in. SomeMap of the Soulcontent even brought very personal things from my past back into therapy lol. I honestly feel sad I didn’t discover BTS when I was younger. When they debuted I had already graduated, and I only started enjoying this kind of music years later. I can see how much effort they put into everything they do, and that made me feel very responsible for making the best book possible. These are some small snippets from the illustration I made for the Skool Trilogy era. Even though these snippets doesn’t show all details, I did a lot of research to depict Seoul at that time in a realistic way, including the social divide between modern and poorer areas, trying to reflect the conflicts and fears BTS talked about during that time. I’ve drawn the same model of school bus used in Seoul at that time, instead of drawing a generic american school bus. I also added many references, drawn in my style with my personal creative thoughts and ideas, to music videos, lyrics, symbols, and visual metaphors from their work. My goal is to create a huge visual biography that goes through all periods of their career while staying true to their story. And this is why I’d love to hear from ARMY. I know how fundamental ARMY is to BTS’s career, and I wanted the drawings to also include important fandom moments, events, memes, and memories, like the Golden Sea with the first yellow lightsticks, memes and fun facts like the Lachimolala pasta, the hilarious Rock Bison beyblade competition, etc. I’ve had so much fun discovering all these things through dozens of BANGTAN BOMBS and Run BTS episodes, but their amount of content honestly feels INFINITE lol, and sometimes I get the feeling I might be missing something that is important to you! So I wanted to ask: What do you think absolutely cannot be missing from this unofficial visual biography? Specially about ARMY, memes and things you´ve experienced with the guys? What’s your most memorable BTS+ARMY moment? I’d love to consider your ideas and possibly include them in the book as illustrated references. Also, would love to hear your thoughts on my approach for this book! Thank you so much!
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