#graphite sketch

[timsplosion]

This is pro- platonic physical affection propaganda. Hug your friends. Cuddle your friends. If you feel comfortable enough, forehead and cheek kisses (I'm not quite there yet but I'm working on it).

Life is short, you're gonna die anyway, let yourself love the people you care about, even if it's not romantic.

[0utlaw-t0rn]

don’t dream it, be it

[badmintonbirdie]

З и м а С о л д а т

[artbychiara]

something about a garden and the things that grow within.

[ghostandbody]

Watched two Vampire Hunter D movies, 2000 one was very good :)

[yellowcakeuf6]

Data my beloved.

Very simple not-photorealistic graphite sketch

Thanks to @tanyayoung-322 for posting the beautiful reference photo which inspired this 📸 🩷

[classic-female-nude-paintings]

London, the 1920s. A man who carved letters into stone for a living - headstones, war memorials, inscriptions for churches - picks up a pencil and draws a woman's body with the same devotion he brought to an alphabet. Eric Gill was a contradiction that no art movement could fully contain. Trained as an architect's apprentice, radicalized by the Arts and Crafts movement, obsessed with the idea that art and craft were the same sacred act. By the time he drew "The Bath," he'd become one of Britain's foremost sculptors and typographers - the man who designed Gill Sans, who carved "Prospero and Ariel" on the BBC's headquarters. But his private drawings reveal someone working through the body with an almost liturgical intensity. No academic finish. No idealized Venus reclining on silk for a Paris Salon jury. Just graphite on cream paper, a figure leaning or half-seated, her left side carrying soft shading while the right thins into contour and bare page. A few strokes of red chalk along the edge where her hand meets a surface - deliberate, startling against all that grey. The face is turned away, left undetailed. The legs dissolve below the thigh. Gill believed leaving a work visibly unfinished was more honest than polishing it into illusion. That red chalk line at the lower left sits unexplained - a compositional anchor, a color note for a future version? The kind of studio trace that makes drawings feel more alive than finished paintings. Gill remains a deeply controversial figure, and rightly so. But the drawing stands on its own terms: the hand, the craft, the process laid bare. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[crayonnaut]

Agni Kai

It might've taken me waaayyy longer than I'd planned to get this post out, but I had so much fun making this one! I'm happy with the results of pushing myself to do more, and I learned some exciting new tricks in my software while making this that'll improve and streamline my art in the future!

Linework done with Pencil on Paper, coloring, lettering and other effects completed with Wacom Intuos in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. 🔥