Hey, I'm Atharv, the artist behind Artify.
I'm 12 years old, and somewhere in between school, football practice, and figuring out a new song on my guitar, I'm always drawing. A pencil and a blank page are honestly my favourite place to be. I've filled whole sketchbooks with superheroes, animals, anime characters, wild colours, and random ideas that pop into my head when I should probably be doing homework.
Why I started Artify
For a long time my drawings just sat in notebooks that nobody ever saw. Artify is my way of letting them out into the world. I take the art I make by hand and turn it into things you can actually wear and hang up. Every time someone wears one of my designs, a drawing that started on paper gets to walk around in real life. That still feels a little unreal to me.
What "drawn by hand" really means
It means exactly what it says. Every design here starts as a real sketch on paper, drawn by me in pencil, pen, or paint, line by line. Nothing here is copied or mass made. When you look closely, you're seeing the actual strokes I made. Even the little imperfections are part of it. That's how you know a real human (a pretty short one) made it.
What's coming next
I'm just getting started. I'll be dropping new designs as I draw them, sharing the stories behind each piece, and showing you some behind the scenes of how a sketch becomes a finished product. This blog, The Sketchbook, is where I'll post all of it.
Thanks for being here right at the beginning. Take a look around, and if a design speaks to you, wear it loud. This is only the first page of the sketchbook.
Atharv