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How did Takashi-san's illustrations become Japan's de facto clip art? Watch the vid and find out.

Drawing is much more to an artist than just another medium. For a painter particularly, it’s the way they evolve ideas and find out who they are as an artist before brush even hits canvas. From ...

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At ...

Biplanes, Trains, and Super-Fast Ponies, Zip Codes, Stamps, and Ben Franklin The Vilification of Bernie Goetz, Redux Kick The Bride! Down the Aisle Old Persian Calligraphy Survives in All Its Elegance ...

There are many exciting exhibitions worth travelling for this year, from dazzling fashion retrospectives to city-wide biennales. But European fans of the vibrant, neo-expressionist work of Jean-Michel ...

Lima made her name with surreal encounters meant to free you from mundane everyday thinking. It’s rather a lot to ask of a key-grabbing hand, a dancing parasol and some melting ice One of the worst ...

“Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black” at Harvard Art Museums is among the most glorious how-to’s you’ll ever find. The Harvard prints and drawings collection is one of the best in the ...

The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain. Could this five-inch drawing at Christie’s be one? Various books and research ...

Known for his hyper-realistic pencil artworks, Kelvin Okafor is using his latest exhibition to call attention to visible skin differences. “Drawing Awareness,” at London’s Hope93 Gallery, features ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building ...

One of the striking characteristics of the sketch is a filled-in circle on the cheek. Sonia asked if it was hyperpigmentation, referring to when a patch of skin is darker than the surrounding skin due ...