Reverberation · Commissions

Custom drawings from your photos.

A photograph is a record. A hand-drawn portrait is a response — your moment, redrawn in pencil and charcoal, one line at a time.

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The idea

Something a photo can't quite do.

A camera captures a moment in a fraction of a second. A drawing takes hours — and that time shows. Every line is a decision: what to hold onto, what to soften, where the light lives. The result isn't a copy of your photo. It's an interpretation of it, made by hand, that carries a warmth a print never quite manages.

Send a photograph that matters to you — a person, a pet, a place, a memory — and it comes back as an original pencil or charcoal piece, drawn from scratch. One of 400-plus drawings and counting, now made to order for you.


How it works

From your photo to your wall.

01

Send your photo

Get in touch with the image you'd like drawn and a note about what you have in mind.

02

We talk it through

Size, medium, and style — plus a clear price and timeframe, agreed before anything begins.

03

It's drawn by hand

Your piece is drawn from scratch in graphite or charcoal, with progress shared along the way.

04

Delivered to you

The finished original is sent to your door, with a digital scan available too.


What can be drawn

If it's in a photo, it can be drawn.

Portraits of people and pets, a house you grew up in, a landscape that means something, a wedding or a first day or a last goodbye. Single subjects or groups, from one photo or a few combined. Realistic and finely rendered, or darker and more gothic — the style bends to the subject and to what you're after.


The work

A few examples.


The details

Good to know.

Mediums
Graphite pencil and charcoal, on quality paper.
Sizes
A range of sizes available — discussed and confirmed with your commission.
Pricing
Every piece is quoted individually. Send your photo and what you're after, and you'll get a price before any work starts.
Delivery
Posted to you as an original, with a digital scan included.

Ready to commission a piece?

Send the photo you'd like drawn, along with any thoughts on size, medium, and style. You'll get a price and a timeframe before anything begins — no obligation.

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