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#hand-drawn

A cross-section of the catalog tagged hand-drawn — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.

21 styles tagged · 7 categories

Distribution across categories

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…

vibrantmaximalist1960s
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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…

japanesehand-drawnnostalgic
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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…

hand-drawndetailedeuropean
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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…

japanesehand-drawnjoyful
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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…

illustrativesoftpainterly
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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…

photographedmonochromehistorical
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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…

illustrativehand-drawnominous
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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…

illustrativeeuropeanhand-drawn
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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…

japanesehand-drawnsoft
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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…

illustrativehand-drawntextured
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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…

mixed-mediahand-drawnphotographed
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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…

hand-drawnillustrativedreamy
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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…

hand-drawnillustrativeamerican
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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…

illustrativehand-drawnjoyful
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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…

japanesehand-drawndark
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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 (…

japanesehand-drawndreamy
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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…

hand-drawnjapanesedreamy
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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…

japanesepainterlyminimalist
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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…

japanesehand-drawndark
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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…

japanesehand-drawnvibrant
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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…

hand-drawngritty1960s
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