Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

At Ars Electronica’s Human Factor: Endless Prototyping, artist Patrick Tresset has installed three robots, each of which draw the portrait of a person seated across from them. Tresset, who has been ...

In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

‘In my 50 years as a professional, of the hundreds of artists I have encountered, only two were Mozarts — gifted from the cradle. All the rest of us had to work hard building and sharpening our skills ...