Art

June 10, 2024

Composer Turns Pet Portraits Into Beautiful Music That Reflects Your Furry Friend’s Personality

Visual artists have long been inspired by their pets. There's a seemingly endless supply of pet photography and even quirky crafts paying homage to our animal companions. But it turns out, our furry friends can also prompt creatives to write beautiful music—and not just the silly songs you sing to your dog or cat about how much you love them.

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June 3, 2024

Artist Chronicles Adventures With Colorful and Dynamic Urban Sketches That Will Give You Wanderlust

While most of us document our travels with a camera, there's a subset of talented creatives who use their drawing skills to capture the essence of a place. An artist known as jejenamoo is the perfect example of this. She turns to her pen and her watercolor set to immortalize the sights she encounters both around and away from her home in South Korea.

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May 28, 2024

18 Best Drawing Pencils for Professionals and Beginners Who Love to Sketch

In most creative fields, it's impossible to get away from one important tool—a pencil. It doesn't matter if you're an architect, a professional fine artist, or you're just learning to draw; a good graphite pencil is an essential part of any artist's supplies. And while we've gone over how to select the best colored pencils, there are a whole other set of considerations when thinking about the right graphite pencil to add to your collection.

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May 27, 2024

Artist’s Incredible Spontaneous Drawings Capture the Feeling of the Moment

Most drawings you see as finished pieces have a lot of planning behind them. Before adding color and details, many draw a preliminary sketch. This offers creatives structure and works as a foundational layer for the piece. But for a Japan-based artist known as Sanagi, this limits the creative possibilities of the work. Instead, he ditches these general guides in favor of portraying whatever crosses his mind at the time of creation.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.