A tall narrow building with wrought-iron balconies and a red HOTEL sign over a lit doorway, a scrawl at the top
Plate I · Hotel BalconiesNo. 058

No. 058, in twelve platesArty Sketchy

A sketchbook of hotels and handsome old buildings, drawn fast in black ink and signed with a flourish nobody can read.

These are pen drawings left deliberately unfinished. The ground is warm paper, somewhere between ivory and blush, and the line is a thin black ink that wobbles, overshoots and doubles back the way a real hand does. Red is the only colour allowed in, and it is rationed: a vintage car, a rooftop, a scrawled signature, a hotel sign. Twelve plates, one sketchbook.

Architecture does most of the posing. A gabled apartment block with pointed turrets appears more than once, drawn tight in one plate and loose in another. A narrow building rises floor after floor of wrought-iron balconies to a red HOTEL sign at street level. A grand hotel with red turret roofs floats among stray construction lines. Elsewhere the view tilts up past overhead wires to a vertical hotel sign, a crowd fills the foot of a skyline, and rows of men in suits stroll beneath a Parisian corner building, one of them inked solid black. The odd one out is a single-line face in profile, all brow, nose and lip.

Because almost every drawing sits in the middle or lower half of the frame, the top third is blank paper, a gift for the clock and the date. On the Home Screen the cream ground keeps things bright and airy; dark app labels sit better than white, so this set favours light mode. The skyline and suited-crowd plates carry more detail at the bottom, where the dock will cover a little of it.

Pick these if you keep a sketchbook, love old hotels, or want a phone that feels like good stationery. Scribbled Rooftops, Red Coupe Corner and Red Turrets are free to save in full resolution, and the other nine sketches are premium.

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The top third is blank paper, and the clock gets it all to itself.

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Now showing Plate I · Hotel Balconies
  1. Plate IHotel BalconiesPremium
  2. Plate IIRed Coupe CornerFree
  3. Plate IIIThe SquarePremium
  4. Plate IVThe Gabled BlockPremium
  5. Plate VRed TurretsFree
  6. Plate VIMen in SuitsPremium
  7. Plate VIIScribbled RooftopsFree
  8. Plate VIIILooking UpPremium
  9. Plate IXSkyline and CrowdPremium
  10. Plate XBetween the TreesPremium
  11. Plate XIThe Small HotelPremium
  12. Plate XIIOne-Line ProfilePremium

How Arty Sketchy wears.

Airy, urbane, relaxed, nostalgic. Loose ink sketch on cream paper, sized for every iPhone up to 2160 × 4800.

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On the Lock Screen

Scribbled Rooftops leaves almost half the screen as bare cream above the drawing, so the time floats on paper.

ii

On the Home Screen

The Small Hotel sits as a tiny drawing in the centre, leaving clean margins for rows of icons.

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Full resolution, every model

Each plate is delivered at the exact size of your iPhone's screen, up to 2160 × 4800, so nothing is stretched or soft at the edges.

The palette
  • Ivory paper#F0F0E0
  • Blush card#E0C0C0
  • Pencil grey#A0A0A0
  • Ink black#100E0E
  • Signature red#FF0000
Mood
airyurbanerelaxednostalgic

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Open Arty Sketchy in pxCream and preview any plate on your Lock Screen first. Prices come from the App Store in your region and are shown in the app before you buy.

Price card · No. 058

Arty Sketchy

Lot 1

Three free platesFree

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Lot 2

A single premium plate10 credits

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Lot 3

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About Arty Sketchy.

Do the Arty Sketchy wallpapers work in dark mode?

They are light by nature: cream paper and black ink. In dark mode the white labels lose some contrast, so these look their best with a light Home Screen or tinted icons.

Is the handwriting in the drawings real words?

No, it is decorative scribble, like an artist's signature. It adds rhythm without asking you to read anything.

What do they cost?

Three cost nothing: Scribbled Rooftops, Red Coupe Corner and Red Turrets. The other nine are premium, 10 credits each in the pxCream app and kept for re-download forever, or every sketch with Unlimited.

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Plate I · No. 058

Arty Sketchy

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