Happy new year! January is here. The air feels colder and the bare branches silhouette look as if they were drawn with a ...

When I’m working on a drawing that’s not being used in a film, just a drawing in itself, I try to keep the same principle of working and not slowing down as it reaches a kind of completion. It usually ...

Osuchukwu is a Lagos-based sculptor and a mentee of Chief Nike Okundaye, was among 10 Nigerian artists that participated in the competition. He recalled that he entered for the competition not for the ...

Drawing from Gray to Black," an exhibit of some 120 drawings at Harvard Art Museums, spans two centuries of work. These five ...

Ready to draw a serval and make it look bold, elegant, and realistic? In this step by step tutorial, you will learn a simple ...

A blend of texture, tone, and controlled layering shapes this charcoal and soft pastel tutorial for the Aisha portrait, ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Drawings are usually humble. They can be quick, sketchy, disposable. A lot of times, drawings are the small preliminary plans for larger, more permanent paintings or sculpture. But not Xavier ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...

Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

The artist’s genius stems in part from his radical willingness to let the studio be a safe place for stupidity. Still from Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, Episode 1: A Natural History of the Studio, ...

In March, an exhibition of works by Jenny Saville, the British artist known for her large-scale figurative paintings, went on display at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna. The day before the opening, ...