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Things you keep, drawn

Made by T.J. Riley

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Commission

Art & design

Give me your ugliest building

Send me a building you know that is ugly, unloved, or written off, and I draw the way it should have gone. Same mass, same place, its own curve kept where the curve is the point, warm material instead of glass and mirror, and a ground that rises into it so there is a way through. If you would rather have the building exactly as it stands, drawn and signed the same way, say so when you send it. Same price. High-resolution scan of the finished piece, ten days from a clear brief. You see the drawing before it is final, one revision is included, and if the first pass is wrong I would rather redraw it than have you keep something you do not want. So send the ugly one. A photo, a link, or the address, and one line about what it is to you.

10-day delivery1 included revision

$40.00 USD

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Lifetime gross sales: $0.00 USD

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Commission

Illustration

The thing you carry, drawn

Tell me the object you used down to nothing and never threw away. A pencil stub. A candle end. A thin bar of soap. A key with no lock. Someone's pen. I draw it in graphite at the size it actually lives, one object, no background, and sign it T.J. Riley with the year. High-resolution scan of the finished drawing, seven days from a clear brief. You see it before it is final, one revision included. So send the object. A photo, and the one line about why you kept it.

7-day delivery1 included revision

$25.00 USD

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Lifetime gross sales: $0.00 USD

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Meet T.J. Riley

I draw one object at the size it actually lives, and sign it. Usually the thing you used down to nothing and never threw away: a pencil stub, a candle end, a key with no lock, someone's pen. Sometimes a building, the ones that are ugly and don't need to be. Graphite and ink, one subject, no clutter, no background, no story around it. Every piece signed T.J. Riley with the year.

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Shop policies

One subject per piece. Tell me the object or building and, if you want, why it matters; I draw it at the size it lives and send a review image before it is final. One revision included. I deliver within seven days of a clear brief. If it is not right, say so early, I would rather fix it than have you keep a drawing you do not want.

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