Between 1886 and 1942, the USDA's Division of Pomology commissioned thousands of watercolor paintings. These beautiful illustrations helped establish a national register of plants and fruits that documented new varieties and issue research findings to growers and breeders throughout the country.

The Compound Gallery was founded by Set Free Richardson, and he's making it happen in partnership with Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def). The first exhibition will feature the iconic work of photographer Jonathan Mannion.

Even in a world of omnipresent surveillance technology, old-fashioned pencil artists help police catch bad guys.

An ex-Marine officer offers you the chance to commission one-of-a-kind art that is so good that major leaguers ask to keep it.

Lately, I’ve been getting asked more frequently: “Claire, do you illustrate your own blog posts?”

The Moscow-based artist insures these cars will never get a car wash

Spectacular illustrations of crustaceans showing mechanical and biological halves of the creatures by Paris-based artist Steeven Salvat.

Haenuli is a fashion designer from South Korea who has been battling depression by drawing a friendly relationship between a girl and death in the form of a skeleton. “Even dark things give comfort.”

The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing marriage of art and science more than a century before modern astrophotography.

Hubert Airy’s drawings anticipated discoveries in neuroscience that were still decades in the future. By Betsy Mason and Greg Miller.

With only days left in production, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director James Gunn shared his [...]

Here are a few pencil drawings I have done

Gianluca asks people to draw bicycles from memory, then makes them.

Mateo Pizarro creates tiny masterpieces with amazing detail and precision

Drawings merging animals with geometric shapes by Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes.

Dense pen and ink drawings of cityscapes by American artist Benjamin Sack inspired by art history and classical music.

In Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay, opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there’s a 1724 engraved self-portrait that the “Little Man of Nuremberg” would have used to promote his act.

All Black Cats Are Not Alike, by writer-illustrator duo Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle, is a true feat in the age-old tradition of cat art.

Drawings of surreal worlds overwhelmed by technology by Los Angeles based artist Laurie Lipton.