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Illustration projects on GitHub

Illustration artwork and drawing skill collections.

As of October 18, 2026, the most-starred Illustration projects on GitHub are Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books (22.6K stars), paper.js (15.1K stars) and ian-xiaohei-illustrations (12.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Illustration repositories with 93.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was handraw-style, with +75 stars in a day.

9Projects

93.7KStars in total

+130Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+75

handraw-style

yang0/handraw-style · ★ 5.6K

A Skill that catalogs 261 numbered hand-drawn illustration styles; you pick a number, tell it your subject, and it returns a bilingual (Chinese and English) prompt with the style name baked in, ready to paste into any image-generating AI.

+15

ian-xiaohei-illustrations

helloianneo/ian-xiaohei-illustrations · ★ 12.6K

A Codex Skill that guides an AI agent to generate body-text illustrations for Chinese articles, blog posts, and Notion docs, turning a judgment, process, or metaphor from the text into a 16:9 white-background hand-drawn image featuring the 'Xiaohei' character.

+15

krita

KDE/krita · ★ 10.6K

Krita is a free, open-source digital painting application for creating professional illustrations, comics, concept art, and texture/VFX work from start to finish, built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.

+12

awesome-gpt-image-2

YouMind-OpenLab/awesome-gpt-image-2 · ★ 10.1K

A free, curated library of community prompts for OpenAI's GPT Image 2 image model — thousands of entries with preview images in 16 languages, filed by use case, style, and subject.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

#1 · cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
A community-curated GitHub collection of pictures showing anime girls holding programming books, sorted into folders by the book's subject. It has collected over 22,000 stars since 2017.
22.6K
#2 · paperjs/paper.js
paper.js
Paper.js is an open-source vector graphics scripting framework for JavaScript, running in the browser on top of the HTML5 Canvas element. It is a JavaScript/browser port of Scriptographer, the original scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator, built by the same authors.
15.1K
#3 · helloianneo/ian-xiaohei-illustrations
ian-xiaohei-illustrations
A Codex Skill that guides an AI agent to generate body-text illustrations for Chinese articles, blog posts, and Notion docs, turning a judgment, process, or metaphor from the text into a 16:9 white-background hand-drawn image featuring the 'Xiaohei' character.
12.6K

4
a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words
11.4Kgirliemac/a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words
A personal collection of hand-drawn and digital tech doodles and sketchnotes explaining complex tech concepts (algorithms, web dev, machine learning, git, generative AI) in simple pictures.
5
krita
10.6KKDE/krita · C++
Krita is a free, open-source digital painting application for creating professional illustrations, comics, concept art, and texture/VFX work from start to finish, built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
6
awesome-gpt-image-2
10.1KYouMind-OpenLab/awesome-gpt-image-2 · TypeScript
A free, curated library of community prompts for OpenAI's GPT Image 2 image model — thousands of entries with preview images in 16 languages, filed by use case, style, and subject.
7
handraw-style
5.6Kyang0/handraw-style · HTML
A Skill that catalogs 261 numbered hand-drawn illustration styles; you pick a number, tell it your subject, and it returns a bilingual (Chinese and English) prompt with the style name baked in, ready to paste into any image-generating AI.
8
gathered-scenes-zine-skill
5.5KZeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill · Python
This is a pair of AI image-generation Skills for OpenAI Codex that turn an ordinary photo into a minimalist, paper-zine-style artwork — either keeping the real photo as an anchor or fully reinventing it as original illustration.
9
muyang-illustration-skills
206yokel1121/muyang-illustration-skills
A Chinese-language illustration generation skill pack for Codex, bundling 1 main entry skill, 8 style sub-skills, and 25 fixed prompt recipes for distinct illustration styles.