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Raw, intimate, and unguarded, Smudge reveals Justin Barton’s mastery of line and gesture. Created in pencil on paper, this 8.5 x 11 inch portrait captures a face in flux—features blurred, stretched, and fractured as if caught between emergence and erasure. Delicate shading collides with bold, impulsive strokes, while a single burst of color draws the viewer into its unsettled energy. Smudge is both vulnerable and defiant, a study of imperfection that reflects the beauty of being human in all its messy, unpolished truth.
Raw, intimate, and unguarded, Smudge reveals Justin Barton’s mastery of line and gesture. Created in pencil on paper, this 8.5 x 11 inch portrait captures a face in flux—features blurred, stretched, and fractured as if caught between emergence and erasure. Delicate shading collides with bold, impulsive strokes, while a single burst of color draws the viewer into its unsettled energy. Smudge is both vulnerable and defiant, a study of imperfection that reflects the beauty of being human in all its messy, unpolished truth.