Colour Pencils and Ink Portrait Drawings

Line drawing portraits, depicted in interesting characters.

In Traditional Pencil Portrait Drawings

Plenty traditional portraits with a couple of celebrities...

Paintings or Sculptures in Portrait Collage

American Artist Jason Mecier has had an interest in arts since a young age, using all sorts of materials to construct his paintings / sculptures.  He came up with the idea of asking celebrities for their unwanted items, in exchange for a painting.  It soon caught on and as you can see below, he was very successful.  We have put together a group of celebrities from the past and the present with a video where, Mecier tells us more about his story and his work.  He works with all sorts of materials for his art, this is how he classifies them: Beans, Candy, Food, Junk, Yarn and Miscellaneous.  Mecier says that his artwork can take from 50 hours for the simpler ones to 2 months of solid work for the more complex.

Portrait Doodle Hair Digital Art

Fantastic digital art drawings with varying descriptive and detailed doodle like hairstyles.

Mostly Minimalist Charcoal and Pastel Portraits

A collection of mostly minimalist charcoal and pastel portraits.

Celebrity Portrait Drawings Full of Emotions

British Artist Kelvin Okafor spends many hours, up to 100 per drawing, to bring us this photographic quality drawings.  The realism to him, is second to being able to capture the expressions and the emotions of the people who's likeness he is trying to reproduce.  Dedication, patients, long hours and an eye for details are what make these drawings so fascinating to look at.  We have included 2 Videos showing Okafor at various stages of work, so that you might be able to pick up some tips, for both drawing and shading.  We started with well known personalities, then moved on to everyday people and finished with his amazing details.  Enjoy...

Expressions on Moleskine Portrait Drawings

Illustrator and Artist Thomas Cian, creates these beautiful portrait drawings, of different people with different expressions.  Since infancy we are supposed to be predisposed to pay special attention to the expressions on the faces.  By the time we become adults this process is so quick and spontaneous in the brain, that it goes on all the time, without us noticing.  Cian's drawings allow us to freeze frame and really pay attention to the variety of expressions that live on people's faces.

Portrait Paintings focused on Expressions

French freelance Designer and Illustrator Florian Nicolle aka neo, has a very distinctive style that comes across in his beautiful paintings.  Even though the paintings as a whole, has not got a lot of details, especially on the periphery, he is formidable in capturing the expression of the people that populate his work, in particular the eyes.  Towards the end of the post we have included some famous faces that you might recognise.

Ballpoint Pen Portrait Drawings Stippling and Scribble

An artist that utilises an unforgiving medium like the pen, to create his art.

Pencil Charcoal and Pastel Portrait Drawings

An artist that is comfortable with color / black and white and drawing with the left and right hand.

Portrait Coins

Brazilian Designer Andre Levy (a.k.a. @zhion), Based in Frankfurt, Germany, created this artwork to highlight the artistic imagery depicted on our coins.  We use them every day but spend no time appreciating the work that goes into them.  Levy calls this artwork Tales You Lose.

Portrait Drawings of Charcoal Studies

New York based Casey Baugh has been painting since the age of 13.  He specialises on oil paint and charcoal, we are going to focus on the latter today.  Specifically, we are going to have a look at his charcoal studies, were he is able to experience, interpret and then reflect fantastically realistic expressions in his drawings.

Swirls of Colors and Shapes used in Portrait Paintings

Beautiful paintings that look a bit like topographical maps.

Stories in Double Exposure Portrait Photographs

Photographer and Digital Artist Brandon Kidwell, lives a triple life, during the day he is a Financial Analyst, after work he is a devoted husband and father, the third part is the times in between the other two lives that he can dedicate to photography.  As the title suggests we are going to concentrate on his double exposure work, specifically hands and faces.  Kidwell creates amazing compositions that bring you into a world of fantasy where you can write your own story, he cleverly starts it off for you, with the picture.

Stories in Character Portrait Pencil Drawings

A lot of character injected in all of the protagonists whom take part in this post.

Portrait drawings with Beards and Moustaches

Facial hair is not the main quality which brings together these pencil and charcoal drawings. Simply one of many details in common.

Watercolor, Pencil and Oil Pastel Portraits

The ingredients brought together for this recipe of art are: Watercolor, pencils and oil pastel pencils.

Layers of Hidden Acrylic Portrait Paintings

JPH is a very interesting Artist, that works with a variety of mixed media.  For today's post we have chosen his Acrylic Art.  His paintings really look impressive, but it is not until you see how he creates them, that you appreciate his technique, a video below shows you, just that.  The paint is layered and the image almost appears to emerge from the canvas, like a head emerging from a lake.  The beauty is that there are some paintings, that have emerged more than others, they are therefore more defined, whilst the others, you have to work harder, as a viewer, to distinguish the the elements that form the features of the face.

Recognise Portrait Drawings in the Detail

British Ileana Hunter defines herself as a Graphite Artist.  We have featured her before, in a post called (Minimalist Hyper-Realistic Portraits).  Hunter has a very distinctive drawing style, minimalist in its execution.  Even though part of the drawing almost looks incomplete, the details that she puts in, are sufficient to recognise who the picture is of.  In the image above, called "The Two Audreys", Hunter divides the image in two, on the left the reference image and on the right, the image she has drawn.  The process highlights how just a few features of our faces are enough to recognise a person.

WIP and Minimalist Ball Point Pen Drawings

A bringing together of WIP and minimalist Ball Point Pen portrait drawings.