We're working digitally in our examples, so I'll knock back the opacity of the planar drawing here to begin to find the forms ...

Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed ... which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw lines without lifting off or scratching the paper.

The duo who call themselves DFT draw familiar objects like trainers, animals, and hands – while never taking their pens off the paper. The artists can spend months conceptualising a single project.