Portraits on Envelopes

British Artist Mark Powel uses old envelopes, documents or sheets of music to draw his portraits.  With just the use of a pen he has drawn these faces with an incredible amount of personality.  Not what most would consider conventional beauty, they are incredibly expressive, I love them.  These images can be bought on Mark Powel's site.

Paper Cut, Celebrity Photo Realistic Portraits

We are really impressed with the work that Yoo Hyun produces, he slices and crumples the paper in order to create realistic portraits of famous people.  Below we have tried to show just how he manages to accomplish this beautiful effect, by adding an animation, plus another close-up detail.  The advantage that come with this kind of art is that, to refresh it, you just need to change the background and the images will adopt a completely different feel.  Enjoy...

Drawings of Fantasy Portraits of Imaginary Characters

Russian Artist Olga aka Anwaraidd dreamt up these beautiful portrait drawings, of imaginary characters.  They are not hyper realistic but, a combination of the expressions, the details she painstakingly draws and the different backgrounds she adopts, really help give the picture in fact all the pictures together, a serene feeling of a fantasy world within reach.  Enjoy the characters and the word in Anwaraidd's art.

Quilling - Paper & Photo Portraits

Latvian Artist Eugenia Evseeva creates the lovely quilling portraits.  Wikipedia Defines this form of Art as; (Quilling or Paper Filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs).  Evseeva uses pictures for the face and the body and uses the coloured paper for the hair, clothes, flowers, jewellery and hats.  See if you can spot some of the celebrities.

Hand Painted Portraits with Marbling Effect

Sweden based Painter Mikael Takacs presents us with these lovely surreal paintings of people he has met in his lifetime.  We don't usually use, hand painted, in our titles but, we wanted to make it clear that these are not Digital Paintings and that they are created using acrylic paint on canvas.  Even though the images are heavily distorted, some more than others, we still manage to pick up the main components that identify them as faces.  Proving once more, how predisposed we are to recognise faces in everything that surrounds us.

Scribble Drawing Portraits, Super Heroes and More

Illustrator working in an advertising agency in Malaysia, Vince Low has dyslexia, that has shaped his past and has given him a motivation to help others, with this now manageable, learning disability.  In Low's previous post here on DesignStack, we featured his design work for a Dyslexia awareness in Malaysia, "Scribble Portraits". Today we are going to have a look at his Super Hero, Reverse White Scribble, Movie Legend drawings.  Enjoy...

Oil Paintings Portraits full of Expression

Beautiful paintings by German Painter Alpay Efe.  It is the subtlety of the emotions that models are able to emote, there are no scenes with enormous smiles, crying or an outburst of exploding anger.  These are expressions that you have to pay attention to, to understand, it is almost like the models are repressing the emotion or are experiencing a mild aspect of that particular feeling of happiness, anger, disappointment, anticipation, longing, pride...

Amazing Expressions in Scratchboard Animal Portraits

Melissa Helene describes herself as a Scratchboard & Graphite Artist, Photographer, Wildlife and Nature Enthusiast.  We also use her words to describe how the Scratchboard works: "Scratchboard is a subtractive medium that uses a variety of abrasive tools to scratch away the outer black layer of the board to reveal the white layer beneath.  Scratches are placed in layers to obtain the desired values of gray and white."  Helene really manages to capture the minute details, that allow her to portray perfectly, the expressions of the animals she is depicting.  You know when you are looking at a portrait if the artists has not been able to capture it and these are perfect.  Enjoy...

Painting and Drawing Portraits with Dry Brush

In this post Igor Kazarin shows us and tells us about this amazing technique.  It is achieved by using a very small amount of oil paint, mixed with solvents like sewing machine lubricating oil.  A small amount is put on the brush which is rubbed in on the palette, to the point where the brush looks dry.  Now it can be used to paint on watercolour paper and any mistakes and highlights can be erased with a rubber.  This amazing paint effect makes painted images look like pencil drawings. The sped up videos below, will show you just how good this technique is and how the shades are layered to make the painting look so realistic.

Realistic Pencil Portraits

Realistic pencil drawings, which include a couple of celebrities.

Drawings of Minimalist Hyper Realistic Portraits

TS Abe is a very accomplished British artist that uses, in the drawings we are showing in this post, the minimalist approach to hyper realistic drawings.  We have a bit of everything to help pick up some pointers, on how to accomplish this effect.  There is a sped-up video, GIF animations and still images with enlarged details.  If you want to learn more about drawings there are other posts, here on DesignStack, just go on the top right hand side of the page and in the search bar, under Search This Blog, key-in  "how to draw" and you will get a lot more posts to help you learn.

Rainbow Portraits Drawings and Illustrations

Californian Artist Joshua Roman, is renown for his colourful rainbow Portraits Drawings and Illustrations.  The characters he draws, span the decades, like for example, a scene from the original black and white "The Twilight Zone" to more modern characters like Robert Downey Jr in Ironman.  A few treats from the eighties, for the ones out there old enough to remember them, from the first time around.  We just had to add Roman's Daft Punk, even if thy don't fit with the theme.

Celebrity Watercolor Portraits

Web and Graphic Designer Soo Kim loves creating art, especially surrounding celebrities and movies, past and present.  Amongst her pieces we have chosen her colorful and minimalist watercolors.  See if you find your favourite celebrity amongst the the ones shown below.

Drawings and Paintings Celebrity Portraits

Natasha Farnsworth describes herself as: "I'm a 20 year old alien who loves to paint and make custom art".  As you can see form the selection below, Farnsworth creates many different types of art using different types of mediums.  The images below include famous films like Star Wars, famous TV series like Breaking bad and portraits of famous personalities past and present.

Quilling Portraits

Successful international Artist and Russian born Yulia Brodskaya, now lives in the UK.  Quilling is a craft that uses strips of paper rolled and glued to create images, patterns.  Exquisite details and colours make up her Quilling Portraits.  We have decided to include some of her other work apart from portraits for you to see the variety of uses for this technique. It is not only nice to see but has practical applications for mostly Advertising purposes, giving the viewer a more interesting background for items we see every day.

If you like this article you might like our Folder Paper Art.

Multiple Face Sketches

Cool looking sketches in multiple format portraits.

Hyper-Realistic Charcoal Portraits

Artist Ken Lee aka (KLSADAKO) creates these very convincing Hyper-Realistic Charcoal Portraits, very well detailed and shaded. Once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

If you like this have a look at our Paintings Drawings & Sculptures Hyper-realistic Folder.

Realistic Anatomical Detailed Drawings

In this post there are some complete portraits, but the majority are facial feature and some fingers.

Drawing Portraits with Packaging Tape on Acrylic Panel

Ukrainian Artist Mark Khaisman, has had a varied carer, working for decades in the fields of Architecture, Animation and Stained Glass Design.  The part of his art that we are going to feature in this post, is his Packaging Tape on Acrylic Panel, with translucent resin light box.  The light and dark relief, is created on the images, by applying more or less layers of tape.  The more layers you apply, the darker the image.  Khaisman started exhibiting his work in 2004 and if you look at the various images, the layering techniques are different, showing that there is more than one way of achieving beautiful effect the effect.

If you like this post, have a look at the link "Packing Tape Art"

Pastel Charcoal and Graphite Celebrity Portraits 2

More well know actors and actresses, portrayed in realistic drawings.