The thumbnail preliminary sketch is where artists first attempt to capture a spark of inspiration. Before the layers of refinement have been...

I like John Cuneo 's witty, wicked drawing of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 12. Was that alligator ever really sincere about the...

 Regular readers know that I'm a big fan of the work of Phil Hale, whose strange and powerful artwork has earned him an international fo...

In the 1940s, Austin Briggs was desperately trying to break away from the comic strip field and win illustration assignments, which he belie...