Today Leonid Tomilin's drawings are the result of more than 35 years of experimentation with technique and material (paper, graphite pencil).

Alexander Glezer, director general of the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey City, USA, defined the direction of what Leonid Tomilin does as "figurative and abstract expressionism.

The conceptual task was to combine academic achievements in drawing with contemporary formal visual quests.

Intensive use of techniques more characteristic of painting (nuance, contrast, different tones), creates an impression of a watercolor. It is possible to classify the graphics of L. Tomilin as "expressive romanticism". In another case, it is "abstract expressionism".