Media artist Makoto Murayama created mechanical blueprints of flowers.
The 29-year old Murayama collects and studies different flowers, sketching them repeatedly to understand the structures and elements.
In an interview Murayama said: “My inspirations come from Yoshihiro Inomoto (a master of automobile illustration) and Tomitaro Makino (a pioneer in Japanese botanical illustration)."
Shohei (son of world-renown manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of Akira), does some truly amazing work with just a pen.
He did a bit of work with Pilot, the Japanese stationary company, using their Justus fountain pen to create this astounding image.
Chinese illustrator and anatomy instructor Chuan-Bin Chung uses his considerable drawing skills to reveal the form and structure of human anatomy with these precise and colorful diagrams he builds for the students in the classroom.
Marcello Barenghi has video after video demonstrating in timelapse how he goes from blank page to near photo-realistic by pen, pencil and brush.
Ukranian-born Mark Khaisman has created these stunning classic Hollywood images with layers of tape.
Norman Mailer’s character timeline for Harlot’s Ghost.
A lot of the work of novel making is the handling of an immensely complex imaginary system of people, incidents and actions. Not surprising, a lot of writers resort to charts, outlines and graphs to handle it.
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Joseph Heller’s chart outline for Catch-22.
J.K Rowling's chart for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
James Salter’s outline for Light Years.
Sylvia Plath’s outline for The Bell Jar.
William Faulkner’s outline for A Fable — written on his office walls.
Part of Jennifer Egan’s plan for her short story “Black Box.”
Henry Miller’s manuscript plan for Tropic of Capricorn.
