CR Cleveris Research EST. MMXXVI · Florence / Remote
§ 01 Manifesto

We treat the line as a hypothesis and the shade as a measurement. Drawing is not decoration for thought — it is thought, made visible at the speed of the hand.

Cleveris Research is an independent studio working across observational figure study, generative image-making, and autonomous agent design. We move between plaster casts and latent spaces, between the contrapposto of a shoulder and the geometry of a transformer. The work is slow on purpose: a sketch that can be read is worth more than a render that can only be admired.

§ 02 Studies Four plates after the same figure
Hand and flank, close study
FIG. II Hand & flank — the point of contact, where marble learns to rest against itself.
Torso line, mid study
FIG. III Torso line — the long axis that carries the weight of the whole.
Shoulder and contrapposto
FIG. IV Contrapposto — the held imbalance that makes a figure alive.
Light study across the flank
FIG. V Light study — reading form as a gradient of belief.
§ 03 Practice
  1. 01

    Figure study

    Observational drawing from plaster casts and the living model. The first instrument is still graphite.

    ANALOG
  2. 02

    Generative sketch

    Diffusion guided by an anatomical prior — teaching a model the difference between a contour and a smudge.

    HYBRID
  3. 03

    Agent research

    Autonomous drawing agents that iterate, critique, and revise — a sketchbook that argues with itself.

    DIGITAL
  4. 04

    Publication

    Catalogues, plates, and field notes. Research that exits the studio as an object others can hold.

    PRINT
“ The hand that draws and the mind that reasons are the same instrument — sharpened from different ends. — studio note, plate VII