Jul 18
Graphite portrait structured through crosshatching and silent observation.
Motus Fictus In Statica Fictional Motion in Stasis
— OBSERVATION 448 et RELIC Medium: Graphite on paper / Digital Jul. 17, 2026
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Graphite portrait structured through crosshatching and silent observation.
Motus Fictus In Statica Fictional Motion in Stasis
— OBSERVATION 448 et RELIC Medium: Graphite on paper / Digital Jul. 17, 2026
Life with Müsnah: Chase & Grab
She wasn't after his soul.
Just his shirt.
someone asked for my crosshatching process on strawpage so I tried to explain my process umm yeah
Graphite portrait structured through crosshatching and silent observation.
Phantasma in Spatio Vacuo A Pure Phantom in Empty Space
— OBSERVATION 447 et RELIC Medium: Graphite on paper / Digital Jul. 10, 2026
Some more practice, this time with crosshatching. I used the same photo I used in my last post. I also took some WIP photos:
I got about this far into the drawing when I decided I hated it. I didn't leave nearly enough white space , so it looked horribly unbalanced to me. I got out some white acrylic paint and attempted to save it:
I don't hate it quite so much now.
I could've called it finished here, but it still felt off to me., and I couldn't figure out why. So I took the original photo, set the saturation to 0, and raised the contrast:
That helped me figure out the lighting mistakes I'd made, mostly in the face around the eye. Once, I had a drawing teacher say that if you can only get one part of a drawing right, it should be the eyes, and I really took that to heart. After those adjustments, I got the final version at the top of this post.
It still feels a bit overworked to me. I'd be happy to receive some constructive criticism on it.
Life with Müsnah: Safe Me
Some people install alarms. Others keep Müsnah in the safe.
Graphite portrait structured through crosshatching and silent observation.
Anonymitas Signata Signified Anonymity
— OBSERVATION 446 et RELIC Medium: Graphite on paper / Digital Jul. 3, 2026