Basquiat combined raw charcoal drawing with gestural painted marks on canvas, creating spiritually charged works with dark expressive energy that closely mirrors the mixed drawing and painting technique seen in God Hopes. His bold mark making and fusion of abstraction with figurative elements shares the same urgent visual language.

Twombly's signature practice of integrating charcoal and oil paint on canvas to produce gestural, emotionally resonant compositions directly parallels Rosa's approach in this work. The dark tonal qualities and loose expressive strokes that blur the boundary between drawing and painting are central to both artists.

Oehlen creates bold contemporary canvases that merge abstract gestural painting with drawn marks, producing dark and expressive mixed media surfaces very similar to God Hopes. His willingness to leave raw gestural traces visible within a painted field reflects the same contemporary approach to combining oil and drawing materials.