Drawing
Drawing is often the most direct art form there is, just a mark making tool and a surface, with nothing standing between the artist’s hand and the image. This section features work in pencil, charcoal, ink, and other drawing mediums, ranging from quick expressive sketches to carefully rendered, highly detailed pieces. Because drawing usually strips away color, it puts extra weight on line, shading, and composition to carry the whole image. Many artists use it as a foundation skill before moving into painting or sculpture, while others treat it as a finished art form in its own right. Explore this section to see drawing at its best.
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Emanuele Dascanio | Drawing
Emanuele Dascanio is an Italian hyperrealist painter, born in 1983 in Garbagnate Milanese, who left the Academy of Brera after six months and instead trained under mentor Gianluca Corona starting in 2007. Working in oil, charcoal and graphite, he creates still lifes and portraits with obsessive, photographic precision, exploring the boundary between light and darkness.…
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Denis Gonchar | Drawing
Denis Gonchar is a Ukrainian illustrator and digital artist known for blending traditional and digital techniques across vector art, paintings, and illustrations. His imaginative, richly colored work draws on nature, mythology, and everyday life, often carrying a strong sense of storytelling. His art has been shown in galleries and featured on various online platforms, earning…
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Diego Koi | Drawing
DiegoKoi, born Diego Fazio in Lamezia Terme, Italy, in 1989, is a self-taught hyperrealist artist who began as a tattoo artist before turning to pencil drawing. Working only in graphite on paper, he builds his pieces over hundreds of hours, capturing skin, water, and reflections with photographic precision. His close-up portraits of eyes, lips, and…
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Andrey Poletaev | Drawing
Andrey Poletaev is a self-taught Ukrainian artist from Lugansk who turned the ballpoint pen into a fine art tool, building large monochrome drawings from up to twenty layers of ink that can take over 300 hours to complete. His subjects range from Hollywood portraits to cityscapes of Paris, New York, Istanbul, and Prague, capturing quiet…
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Essentialism Art | Drawing
Essentialism in painting strips an image down to its purest form, removing everything unnecessary to reach the core truth of an idea, a philosophy art historian Mark Cheetham traces back to early abstractionists like Mondrian and Kandinsky. Key figures include Frank Badur, known for structured color fields, and Robert Moskowitz, who reduces everyday objects to…
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Dirk Dzimirsky | Drawing
Dirk Dzimirsky is a self-taught German artist born in Rhede in 1969, known for hyper-realistic drawings and paintings that look almost like photographs. Working in pencil, charcoal, pastel, and oil, he builds up layers of extreme detail against softly blurred backgrounds to capture the vulnerability of the human face. His work has been shown across…
