portrait drawing
Likeness on paper
Portrait drawing is the art of rendering a person's likeness on paper or similar surface, typically focusing on the face.
The term covers both the practice and individual works: She studied portrait drawing in art school, The gallery displayed his portrait drawings of local figures.
Unlike painted portraits, these use dry media—pencil, charcoal, chalk, or ink.
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- preliminary sketchEarly unfinished drawing
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- faceHead's anterior surface
- facial featuresElements composing a face
charcoal · pencil · subject · sitter · sitting for · features · shading · expression · eyes · nose · mouth · contour · profile · commission · artist · easel · canvas · graphite
- drawingsketch, sketches, pencil sketch, charcoal sketch, sketching
- illustrationpainting, watercolor, sketch, charcoal, digital illustration
- art techniquespainting, sketching, shading, blending, cross-hatching
- drawing basicspencil sketching, basic shapes, shading, shading techniques, sketch pads
- Belgian ArtMagritte, Rubens, Van Eyck, Bruegel, Ghent Altarpiece
portrait drawinglandscape drawing
Artwork showing outdoor scenery
architectural drawing · abstract drawing · botanical illustration · animal drawing · seascape
portrait drawingportrait photography
Images focused on faces
photograph · photo portrait · headshot · daguerreotype · selfie
portrait drawingabstract art
Visual work avoiding depiction
action painting · minimalist art · abstract expressionism · conceptual art
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