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For artists, few objects are as challenging to capture as the human form. To render the figure on canvas or paper requires mastery of contouring, shading, perspective, proportion and countless other ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible finding of a human drawing that dates back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever discovered. The rest of this article is behind a ...

Your college art history textbook needs a new first chapter. The earliest known drawing in human history – a red, cross-hatched pattern that looks somewhat like a hashtag – has been unearthed on a ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck. Maybe you’d sketch this: Easy enough. But then, imagine you were asked to draw a pig truck. You, a human, would intuitively understand how to mix ...

(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

In an ancient seaside cave on the South African coast, archaeologists have found what may be the earliest known drawing created by a human. This ancient piece of art is about 73,000 years old, its ...

I’m not good at drawing. In fact, I’m positively dreadful. A few years ago, I took a watercolor class. My mother would have been proud of what I did—if I were still in the third grade, not a late ...

I’m not good at drawing. In fact, I’m positively dreadful. A few years ago, I took a watercolor class. My mother would have been proud of what I did—if I were still in the third grade, not a late ...