Heavy Charcoal Shading And Dramatic Light Make Daniel Álvarez’s Drawings and Illustrations Feel Pulled From Dreams

Daniel Álvarez is an illustrator from Mexico City; he creates contemporary drawings that explore how humanity moves, thinks and behaves by reflex, often in stark black‑and‑white charcoal, graphite and digital media.

His work features minimalist yet emotionally charged figures—women dreaming, moons held in skies, moon faces, colossi, birds and abstract forms—rendered with heavy shading and dramatic light to evoke introspection and surreal tension.

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