#Graphite Journal

[215h17h4]

Chanel fall 1997 ready-to-wear collection

[alma-art]

Pencil art of a Starking apple.

This drawing made me realise what your personal style actually means, and why is it so hard to achieve it.

Artist Journal trip comes:

Now, I have been struggling with art for a while, besides the burnout and the everyday busyness I had the feeling that there is a level of skill that I cannot surpass. I tried many things, went to art classes, drawn a lot routinely, asked for criticisms, but nothing.

After all this, I asked, what is drawing and what is a personal style.

Drawing is 2D depiction of 3D objects, or concepts. And with the traditional painting knowledge (first video good example) that too much detail, and a lot of useless lines don't make a painting good. Therefore, I tried to think of a way to apply this in drawing. After all, to draw it is not easy to avoid lines, curves.

Then I thought about 3D, and topology, when we simplify the surface of objects with polygons. Think about any 3d software like Blender.

Italian Renaissance painters had so much time, they did that on paper: (Wiki link of Mathematics and art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art 2025.06.22.)

And so I imagined the object of my drawing, an apple as a 3d object, but opposed to the renaissance artist I used loose lines, like panning to trace the faces of the 3d apple in my mind. Using reference as it is a study.

This is the simple imperfect sketch, trying to understand and study the 3d surface in 2d.

Then comes the toning, same as before I tried to follow the direction of the surface with my hatching. But for the intensity I applied the knowledge of the way the eye and the reflection of light works. (fourth video for more in depth)

As for the main topic of my essay, personal style.

Personal style is not more than your personal though process, and artistic decision making while doing art.

For me it seems thinking in 3d, topology and shapes is a big game changer. And this meant for me to surpass my past limitation. Because, yes, yess I can imitate, a style or that which has been taught to me, but It is better to use those as building bricks to build your own way of thinking.

Thanks for reading to the end, have fun drawing!

Useful youtube videos:

[moracai]

[hissbiscuit]

Owl sketch on my notes

[snailmailcollective]

graphite and charcoal drawing i did at the park today! i sat amongst the birds and worked on this piece i started yesterday inspired by the different kinds of spirals we see in nature. thinking about cutting out the bottom blacked out part and pasting this paper to some cardboard and making a 3d lake scene! regardless of which direction it ends up going, i really enjoyed getting my hands dirty with some charcoal and practicing my style and proportions for these whimsical trees.

[s0larize]

Why should I ?

[thatgirlwithasquid]

the art shop i buy my sketchbooks from hasn't had the specific sketchbook i buy the past few times ive been so i am taking matters into my own hands (breaking my little ritual of going out to buy a new one--which is a nice way to get myself out of the house--by looking for it online)

[tunnel-vvision]

collection of pet drawings ive done !!

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1. two portraits in black pen of a hound dog named Timbus. In the middle of the page is a yellow garden spider also done in pen.

2. two page spread. on the left page in the middle is a portrait of a black cat, Equinox. Above him, is grocery store math for my communal household. Below the cat, two random portraits one of a man with a hat and one of a vague person. Theres the quote « it aint easy living with eyes half closed »

on the right page there is more grocery math, a winged biblically accurate angel with eyes. below there is a drawing of Luca the orange cat being held.

3. one vertical page of three cats, all Equinox in two curled up positions. done in pencil, using crosshatching

4. a pen outline of Fern the dog sleeping

[tricornonthecob]

One of these traumatic primary accounts is not like the other.

Nicholas Cresswell, just some guy who got convinced by a business major to do real estate investment in North America, almost dies multiple times, loses everything, through a series of adventures is still unable to make up the cost, is traumatized and appalled by the abject horrors of Slavery and racism in the colonies, and hounded by fears of being beaten by patriots. Dad Issues.

John Robert Shaw, self-professed and many-times concussed dumbass who somehow keeps blundering into a fuckton of money and then blowing it on partying within a month. Why does this man have a wife. Is she ok.

Bonus:

Joseph Plumb-Martin, local New Englander with pathological dedication to the bit (re-enlisting) despite seeing his friends blown apart and being starved half to death for like, six years straight.

[kndll-art]

some april journal sketches

205 x 90 mm / graphite and acryclic on paper

reference sources

'The Fallen Angel' by Alexandre Cabanel

'Curses of the Heart' which was AI generated 🙃

[floraenox]

“We keep us safe.”

This was a lil warmup I did this morning with oil pastels and some graphite.

[dungeonfart]

sketchbook pages from the past couple of days 💕

[mattiasdrawings]

Drawing Mattias Gunnarsson

Postershop --> Mattias/shop Instagram ----> @mattiasgunnarsson Website ------> mattiasg.se

[moodymakeshifter]

Lines for the new Demon Entity illustration. Next step— shading~ ;)

[rinthing]

sketchbook/diary/book review

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