Expressions leaping off of Charcoal Portraits

Charcoal drawings on paper.

WIP Color Drawings of Actors and Animals

Self-taught Artist Corinne Vuillemin says that she has always been passionate about Drawing and Painting using many different mediums like Oil, Watercolour, Graphite, Charcoal and Colored Pencils.  Most of all, she loves creating portraits, with the eyes being her favourite feature to reproduce.  Even though these are reproductions she always tries to identify and amplify the spark of emotion she sees in her subjects.  For each portrait we have added below it, a WIP (Work in Progress) GIF Animation.  Enjoy...

Silicone Sculptures that Look Alive

Kazuhiro Tsuji has a 25 years experience working as a special effects make-up Artist.  These are just some of the films he worked on: Looper, Planet Of The Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Salt, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ring 2, Blade 3, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Men In Black.  When it comes to his sculptures, he tries to capture the inner thought and emotion of the person, giving them an expression that is almost frozen in time.  They give you the impression that if time were allowed to continue, the face would morph into another expression and continue as a normal person that seconds earlier was just standing very very still.  Tsuji gets a kick out of seeing people interacting with his sculptures and that is what drives him to continue.

Digital Art Dragon Drawings

Dragon drawings in all of their splendour in some surreal situation.

Faces in Charcoal Portraits

Charcoal portraits drawings of interesting models.

Charcoal and Pencil Portrait Drawings

Charcoal and one graphite pencil, used to bring to life a variety of portraits.

Magic Realism in Surreal Paintings

Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves had two things growing up, a love for daydreaming and a love for art.  As he grew older he managed to combine these two aspects of himself into his art.  As well as a surreal feel, his art also has an optical illusion side to it, where your eyes and brain have to do a double take in order to process the image.  Gonsalves calls his style Magic Realism and the paintings below will definitely show you why.  Dreaming is an enjoyable emotion that is almost free, the only thing it is going to cost you is time, a price worth paying for...

Photo-realistic Sculptured People

Sam Jinks specialises in these very powerful Photo-realistic Sculptures of people, not always pretty or necessarily easy to look at.  These artworks are created out of silicon, paint & human hair.  We have included some of the different styles he captures. At the top the man with no mouth or nose, scary image, represented in motion in the Film The Matrix (just the mouth).  It is amazing how much emotion these inanimate Sculptures emote.

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Pencil and Pen Sketchbook Portraits

A view of an artist's sketchbook pages, full of lovely portraits.

Subtle Charcoal Portrait Drawings

Charcoal drawings, a little different from the usual ones.

Ink Animal Line Drawings

Hayao Miyazakis movie Princess Mononoke.
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Drawings that originated as an Inktober challenge.

Charcoal Portrait Drawings 1 Celebrity

Fantastic portraits full of details for the artist to capture and 1 celebrity.

100 Artist to Teach you how to Draw

Here on DesignStack.co we have featured many different types of drawings from a lot of amazing artists, but for the fist time, we are writing about a book that teaches you how to draw. 21 Draw are launching an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the book, 400 pages, that will come in Hard/Soft Cover or e-Book format. It includes 1000 unique drawings by 100 different Artists, contributing 10 Drawings each.

The Front Cover design, is being shaped with suggestions from the contributors. We have been promised an e-Book for one of our readers when it comes out in September. When we receive it, we will do an update article with details of a prize draw for one of our followers. Below are a selection of drawings (press them to enlarge them, not the first one) plus a video explaining more.

Fantasy Creatures Drawings and Paintings

A variety of sweet and impressive creatures are depicted in both drawings and paintings.

Pencil Portraits Expressions and Poses

Poses and expressions, as the title describes, really form the backbone of this post, see more below.

Charcoal Portrait Drawings with Lifelike Character

Drawings that have many different subjects, all as interesting and as diverse from one another.

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...

Moleskine Sketchbook Pencil Portraits

A great chance to see a number of moleskine sketchbook pencil portraits.

Black and White Pencil Portraits

Poses and moments in time, captured in pencil drawings.

Ink People Drawings and Paintings

Fantastic images of people in ink art.