combining Prud'hon's soft prompts

13 days ago

STYLE: In the style of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this drawing creates authentic charcoal sketches, combining Prud'hon's soft, atmospheric shadows, Degas's dynamic composition and economical strokes, and Toulouse-Lautrec's expressive and bold lines. The drawings highlight the natural qualities of charcoal: granular texture, blurred transitions, and strategic highlights achieved through blending. Areas of detail contrast with sketched forms, thus maintaining a sketched appearance. Working with blacks, grays, and paper whites, this style captures subjects with spontaneous energy rather than precision, favoring atmosphere and movement through a minimalist yet powerful stroke. The result is both classic and immediately expressive, the raw character of charcoal preserved in every brushstroke. An old man with a weathered face and tattered clothes sits on a finely crafted wooden raft, drifting across a vast, serene ocean beneath a soft, muted sky. He gazes nostalgically at the distant horizon, a profound homesickness etched on his face.