New art inspiration, new style and creation of my digital gallery
Since 16 March 2026 I've discovered on a Hellenic polytheism forum a new artist. They're Helvetica Blanc. My mind was blown. I never really liked abstract minimalism art but for some reason this artist specifically just unlocked something in me. For me it almost feels like their style is gentler and softer than other abstract artists I've seen before. Now I just can get enough of their stuff. I'm a certified fan now and I can't wait to the point when I'll be actually working to be able to subscribe to their Patreon and to buy their prints. Just a few of my favorite pieces of theirs:
Also love all of their works with sphinxes, I wish I had the physical space to display all of them in my home.
And so, after spending hours gawking at their art I, after quite a bit of an art break, started drawing again! Granted the style I'm drawing in is very similar to Helvetica Blanc's for now, but I am sure I will slowly find my own niche. All of the art has to start somewhere. Let me show you two of my pieces, one of the oldest and the newest one:
I think it's certainly going somewhere, if you ask me lol. I don't have a lot of illustrations yet, but I'm exited to see my future progression. Drawing in this style makes me very happy as I can finally let myself make my thoughts and art ideas into reality, without being afraid or angry that my anatomy and technique is "so bad after all these years of drawing". It's very freeing. One of the latest pieces called Sphinx love was mentally bugging me for a few days (like the thought and ideas of the scene were just almost constantly on my mind) and after I drew the piece, literally next day, gone, away with the wind. I can't even express how freeing that truly feels.
Sometimes I'd draw the piece with basically what came to my mind and after finishing it, I'd see meaning that I didn't even intent on putting there. Mentally, it's so wild how this feeling contrasts to what I'd feel finishing a piece for...social media essentially. Think Deviant art, Instagram, or Gods forbid Amino and similar communities. I'd pick apart my own art and feel shit that after "drawing" since I was 12 years old I still sucked at it (in my opinion), when people around me were progressing so much and so much faster. I hope this new inspiration will help me rid myself of these thoughts about my art and actually explore it, regardless of how my style will look in the end.
Here you can check out all of my illustrations: GALLERY
(It's a link to my new website do check that out too!)
Also this change of style sort of helped to push the mentality of "Just make it exits first. You can make it good later". And yk what, I am trying to do just that from now on. I've heard some people say that "well I'd never return back to that piece, if I haven't made it good from the start", to what I have to say - skill issue (I also have the same skill issue dw). But seriously, who actually cares that you made that draft in your personal notes or sketch you didn't finish? Only you. And you can literally Always finish it, while you're alive. I think when it comes to passions - do what brings you joy and leave what doesn't. Maybe you will finish that sketch in the future, at least now it's alive and in existence.
If you have any suggestions for new posts, would like to have a discussion, or just to say hi, don't be shy to shoot me an email. I'd love to hear from you!