#hand-drawn
A cross-section of the catalog tagged hand-drawn — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Anime & Manga 8
- Illustration 6
- Comic & Graphic 3
- Era Aesthetics 1
- Photography 1
- Mixed Media & Experimental 1
- Painting 1
Styles tagged #hand-drawn
21 styles
1960s Psychedelic
Psychedelic poster art is the visual language of San Francisco between 1965 and 1969 — the Fillmore, the Avalon Ballroom, the Family Dog…
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90s Anime Cel Look
Between roughly 1989 and 2001, almost all Japanese anime was animated on physical celluloid sheets and shot on 35mm film before being bro…
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Botanical Scientific Illustration
Botanical scientific illustration is the four-century discipline of rendering a plant accurately enough to identify the species while mak…
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Chibi / Super-Deformed
Chibi (literally "short" in Japanese) and its near-synonym SD ("super-deformed") describe a stylistic mode where characters from a host a…
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Children's Book Watercolor
"Children's book watercolor" is not one style — it is a continuous tradition stretching from Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit (1902) through…
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Cyanotype
The cyanotype process was invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and used almost immediately by the botanist Anna Atkins to produce Photog…
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Edward Gorey Crosshatched Gothic
Edward Gorey produced more than 100 small books between 1953 and his death in 2000, each one set in a faintly Edwardian elsewhere and ren…
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Hergé Ligne Claire
Ligne claire ("clear line") is the Franco-Belgian comic style codified by Hergé in The Adventures of Tintin (1929–1976) and named by Joos…
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Kyoto Animation Soft
Kyoto Animation (Kyoani, founded 1981) is the studio whose mature TV work — K-On! (2009), Hyouka (2012), Sound! Euphonium (2015–24), Viol…
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Maurice Sendak Crosshatch
Maurice Sendak's mature style — Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), Outside Over There (1981) — is built on de…
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Mixed Photography and Sketch
Mixed photography and sketch is the deliberate combination of photographic imagery with hand-drawn ink, graphite, watercolor, or marker o…
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Moebius / European Bande Dessinée
Moebius — Jean Giraud's pseudonym for his Métal Hurlant work from 1974 onward — is the single most influential European comics artist of…
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New Yorker Editorial Ink
The New Yorker has run editorial illustration and cartoons in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is not one artis…
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Quentin Blake Loose Line
Quentin Blake's illustrations for Roald Dahl — The BFG, Matilda, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor…
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Seinen Manga (Berserk-style)
Seinen ("young man") manga is the Japanese category aimed at adult male readers, published in magazines like Young Magazine, Big Comic Sp…
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Shōjo Manga
Shōjo ("young woman") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at teenage girls. The category formed around magazines like Nakayoshi (…
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Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli's films share a visual identity that has held remarkably steady from Castle in the Sky (1986) through The Boy and the Heron…
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Sumi-e Ink Wash
Sumi-e ("ink picture") is the Japanese name for ink-wash painting introduced from China by Zen Buddhist monks in the 14th century. The pr…
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Tatsuki Fujimoto Modern
Tatsuki Fujimoto (born 1992 or 1993, exact birthdate concealed) is the most discussed contemporary mangaka in the world. Fire Punch (2016…
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Trigger High-Energy Cel
Studio Trigger (founded 2011) was formed by ex-Gainax staff who carried forward Gainax's high-energy, line-driven action animation tradit…
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Underground Comix (R. Crumb)
Underground comix (the "x" spelling is original to the movement, used to distinguish from mainstream Comics Code-approved comic books) em…
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