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.
WanJin Gim | Drawing
Wanjin Gim is a South Korean artist based in Seoul known for intense, layered drawings of the human body built up through hatching and shifting color. Trained in animation before teaching…
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…
Minjae Lee | Drawing
Minjae Lee is a South Korean painter who studied fine arts at Hongik University and blends traditional Korean themes with bold, modern color. His best known series, Eternal Horizons, builds depth…
Jose Vergara | Drawing
José Vergara, known professionally as Redosking, is a Mexican artist famous for hyperrealistic colored pencil drawings of human eyes. Born in Mexico City in 1994 and raised in Madrid, he began…
David Roberts | Drawing
David Roberts was a Scottish painter born in Edinburgh in 1796, best known for his detailed watercolors and drawings of ancient ruins and landmarks from his travels through Egypt and the…
M.C. Escher | Drawing
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Gustave Doré | Drawing
Gustave Doré was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter, and sculptor born on January 6, 1832, and died on January 23, 1883, best remembered for his prolific wood engravings, including 241 illustrations…
Gabriel Moreno | Drawing
Gabriel Moreno is a Spanish illustrator based in Madrid, known for elegant black-line drawings layered with bursts of color that center on female beauty and grace. His work has appeared on…
Keith Haring | Drawing
Keith Haring was an American artist born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958, who moved to New York City in 1978 to study at the School of Visual Arts and soon became…
Christoph Niemann | Drawing
Christoph Niemann is a German illustrator, author and animator born in 1970 who studied under Heinz Edelmann in Stuttgart before spending eleven years working in New York. His playful, visual pun…
Jamie Wyeth | Drawing
Jamie Wyeth is an American realist painter, born in 1946, and the son of Andrew Wyeth, carrying forward the family’s Brandywine School tradition. Trained early by his aunt Carolyn Wyeth, he…
Mostafa Khodeir | Drawing
Mostafa Khodeir is an Egyptian hyperrealist artist from Port Said, now based in Cairo, who builds startlingly realistic portraits using nothing but ballpoint pens, with each piece taking 50 to 70…
