Type of Portrait

All of us know that camera technology can provide the perfect image, but nothing can match the real personal connection that is so clearly displayed in a painting.
Painting was the only technique to record someone's look before the development of photography. They also existed to demonstrate a person's authority, significance, beauty, riches, and taste.

A portrait painting can be created in a variety of methods. Here, we describe the many types of portraits that may capture memories that will last a lifetime.

One of the most important traditional media includes oil painting. They have been around for as long as we can tell and have withstood the test of time with remarkable durability and vibrant colour. They are also a wonderful long-term investment as compared to other mediums. Another feature of oil paint is that it allows the paint to dry slowly, it aids the artist in adjusting and gaining better control of the movement.

The art of making artwork on a computer or tablet with a stylus pen is known as digital painting. As we do know, digital art may be done in any medium, including watercolour, oil, and even sketch! A digitally produced portrait is made and composed on a blank canvas. The nice thing about digital is that we can use textures and instruments, as well as our artist's particular favorite, CTRL-Z (which can be quickly undone!)

Moving onto our next medium, pastel painting is an art media that comes in the shape of a stick and is made up of powdered pigment and a binder. This particular medium is favored by many, and frequently given as a present as it is more economical than oil and has the shortest time to lead to finish!

Mixing multiple creative materials to produce work that integrates two or more art disciplines on a canvas or paper is what mixed media art is all about. For the final backdrop, we used pencil, pastel, and spray paint in the sample below.

The goal of mixed media is to blur the lines between different creative mediums. When it comes to mixed media, the sky is the limit!

A pencil sketch is a drawing in which no colour is utilised; the drawing is usually black and white. It is frequently drawn freehand and is not intended to be a finished piece of art. The various gradients will produce a tone of black and white hues. It is also suitable as a present and takes a little time to create, similar to pastel.

And finally, digital illustration entails using digital tools such as digital painting to create art straight from the artist's fingertips, via an interface that interprets that movement into a digital outcome. A lot of these tools include drawing on a digital canvas using a stylus, which can subsequently be reproduced on any sort of paper or canvas. The end result is usually enjoyable and cool!

More of our Portrait Pastwork Portfolio can be seen at the Artisan Malaysia Online Gallery here. 

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