[ART] NOBODY ASKED. I DREW IT ANYWAY.2012 TO 2019 · PENCIL · INK · MARKER · BRUSH

THE artPART.

Creativity is the real intelligence. This is where mine goes off the clock. None of it ever sold. None of it ever tried.

NO BRIEFNO CLIENTNO INVOICENO UNDO

Top-down view of a wooden studio desk with four of Tiago's drawings: a pencil portrait, an ink rat, a marker portrait with DING DING DING lettering and a never die hand, surrounded by markers, ink and pencil shavings — **THE DESK.** FOUR SHEETS, ONE HAND, ZERO APPROVAL ROUNDS.WORK MADE 2012 TO 2019

THE STUFF THAT doesn't pay the bills.

Twenty years of briefs pay the rent. This pays nothing. It's where the hand stays honest: no deck, no feedback round, no "can we make the logo bigger".

Graphite portraits. Rats with an appetite. Old men screaming in pink. Lettering pulled with a brush, one breath per letter. Every line went down once, in ink, with no ctrl+Z.

GRAPHITE 2BBRUSH PENINDIA INKALCOHOL MARKERSFINE LINER

Full disclosure: every line on the paper is mine, by hand. The big video below is real footage of me at work. The other desk and hand shots were rescued from old phone photos and re-staged by the engine, so the work finally looks as good as it felt to make.

IN THE hand.

Where the ideas get their fingerprints. Literally, in graphite.

● REAL FOOTAGE · 2019

Tiago lettering with a dip pen at his desk — DIP PEN · REAL

A hand shading a graphite portrait with a green pencil — GRAPHITE

A hand filling DING lettering with a pink alcohol marker — ALCOHOL MARKER

A hand inking the never die banner with a fine liner — FINE LINER

Graphite portrait of a man with glasses and ornamental swirls on a drafting table

The same graphite portrait photographed in 2013 with a pencil beside it

Nº01

SAY MY name.

Glasses, goatee and a face dissolving into smoke. Pure graphite and patience, with cross-hatching you can count.

MEDIUMGRAPHITE ON PAPERLEFTNOWRIGHT2013, AS SHOT

Nº02

ALL YOU CAN eat.

A rat, a cheese and a promise. Every hair inked by hand, every letter pulled with a brush pen. The coffee ring is part of the process.

MEDIUMINK + BRUSH PENTYPEHAND LETTERED

Marker portrait of an old man with an oxygen tube and pink DING DING DING lettering, shot low across the desk

The same marker drawing photographed in 2013 surrounded by markers

Nº03

DING DING ding.

Three words, one bell and a whole season of television. Alcohol markers layered until the paper begged for mercy.

MEDIUMALCOHOL MARKERSTYPEHAND LETTERED

THE LETTERING wall.

60+ pieces of hand lettering between 2012 and 2019. Zero fonts were harmed.

Hand lettering Acts not ads in red and black marker — ACTS NOT ADS · 2012

Hand lettering Tainted Love — TAINTED LOVE

Hand lettering Rock the Beat — ROCK THE BEAT

Hand lettering Studio Barba Negra — STUDIO BARBA NEGRA

Hand lettering Winter is Coming — WINTER IS COMING

Hand lettering O lado bom da vida — O LADO BOM DA VIDA

Hand lettering Fail Harder — FAIL HARDER

Hand lettering Great Times are Coming — GREAT TIMES ARE COMING

Hand lettering Hells Bells — HELLS BELLS

Hand lettering Knock Knock on Heaven's Door — KNOCK KNOCK ON HEAVEN'S DOOR

Hand lettering Forever Young — FOREVER YOUNG

[PROJECT] FURNITURE · 2018 ORIGINAL · 2026 RELIGHT

THE BULL lamp.

A real bull skull, sanded, lacquered black and nailed to stained pine in a garage in 2018. In 2026 it got a second life: a warm backlight and two embers for eyes. Same bull. New mood.