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...

Expressing Emotions Through Watercolor Paintings

Erica Dal Masois is a self-taught Italian Artist that loves to create portraits.  As you may have seen in the title, she attaches a multitude of expressions and emotions to her watercolors, from the good to the the bad and everything in between.  Hopefully, if you are reading this post when you are sad, you will find and image that will make you feel happy and if you are happy you will find an image that will inspire you...

Paintings - A Mirror to the Artist's Emotions

Hungarian Engineering student and self-taught artist, Andrea Wéber aka Mandy Candy, manages to inject a lot of emotions in her portrait paintings.  In Wéber's website, we have not found an explanation of the emotions she is trying to capture.  A lot of her paintings, we have a running paint technique which, we usually associate with bad emotions as, being unhappy.  We wanted to leave the interpretation as wide as possible by giving the tile, a general all-encompassing definition like Emotions and leave you to make your own mind...

Emotions and Character Drawings in Everyday Faces

Normal expressions not stylised or posed, this is the subject Paul Cadden seems to gravitate towards. Even though he uses photographs as a starting point and he keeps his portraits a photo like as possible, he always likes to add to the original image.  It is refreshing to see, at times, the people and faces that normally would not make covers of magazines except to put forward a sad or tragic story.  He shows us that we don't have to be scared of what are considered less than perfect features, which from an artistic point of view carries a lot more character.

Surreal Emotions Painted on Canvas

Australian Fine Artist Joel Rea creates these Fantastically original and Surreal Paintings, in which he really captures the the emotions represented by the titles he gives his work.  We have included a video in which Rea explains a bit more about his work, he has quiet and calm energy about him that makes watching it a soothing and relaxing experience.

Painting Portraits, to bring out the Emotions

David Kassan is an American Artist who was born in Arkansas.  He is part of a wave of artists, that are not contented with just painting and drawing portraits of people, to achieve the best likeness they can.  Their main goal is to get their models to emote and capture that, on paper or canvas.  To see how important it is for him to capture the person behind the painting, we have included below, a video, where he creates a mini movie to tell a story about his subject which, coupled with the beautiful music, really makes for wonderful viewing.

Charcoal Portraits full of Expressions and Emotions

Drawings and expressions that feel like someone is looking back at you through the screen.

Portrait Paintings that Express Raw Emotions

A range of feelings exposed in these beautiful paintings.

Hyper-Realistic Emotions in a Drawings

Italian Artist DiegoKoi starts his career with tattoo artwork, with a particular passion for Japanese art.  He is now captivated with the use of dark and light in his Pencil Drawings, giving them an immense amount of shading gradients to mimic the real world, which is what makes them so realistic and life like.  He also likes to capture the feelings behind the people he recreates on paper.  As you can see from the titles of his drawings, he is trying to portray the raw emotions felt by the population in these difficult times.  Exceptional Artists like him are making it more and more difficult for us to differentiate their work from photographs.  Please let us know DiegoKoi's speaks to you in any way, at the bottom in the comment page.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one). Enjoy...

A Friend's Emotions Expressed in Drawings

Human feelings represented in drawings from the point of view of a close friend.

Design in Character Sketches

Character sketches, which come in pencil and in digital art format.

Emotions in Ink and Pencil Drawings

Strong emotions portrayed in ink and pencil drawings.

Emotions and Expressions in Drawings

Emotions and expressions, are not just part of the title but, a theme trough-out the graphite portraits on this post.

Pencil and Ink Portrait Drawings

Drawing studies that highlight very many different aspects of portraits.

Blue and Red Pencil Portraits

Blue and res pencil portrait sketches.

Cartoon Like Animal Sketchbook Drawings

Cartoon critters and animals in graphite and color pencils sketches.

Opposite Ends of Portrait Emotions

Not all of them, but many of these portraits seem like opposite ends of the spectrum of emotions.

Pencil Drawings and Complex Emotions

Pencil portraits, inanimate objects that spring to life with a title or a backstory.

Drawing Portraits Wear Emotions

If it wasn't so long, the entire title would read: "Pencil drawings of portraits that wear emotions on their faces".

Blue Pencil Drawing Portraits and Studies

Blue pencil drawing portraits and drawing studies await you in this post.