When the word portrait is mentioned, many immediately think of oil paintings of faces. The National Portrait Gallery is committed to expanding visitors’ ideas of portraiture through its programs, ...

My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork ...

Let’s be honest, drawing portraits is one of the most frustrating things in art. You think you’ve nailed the proportions, ...

There are some simple rules and guides for drawing faces that will help to get proportions correct. When drawing a portrait of a person facing forward, these guides can help to make the work accurate: ...

Though they come from the same drawing group and have supported one another's work for many years, the styles of portraiture exhibited by Pamela Bidelman and David Alan Olson could hardly be more ...

Last year, we heard about an industrial robot that was able to create pencil sketches of human subjects. In that case, it utilized algorithms that identified the boundaries between areas of high and ...

Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

Fee: $65 + HST per workshop or $120 for both. (Part 1 workshop includes supplies. For part 2 workshop, please bring your own supplies) Workshop Part 1 (Drawing), 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Workshop Part ...