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Jack Sparrow  I took this drawing from the internet and copied it. I'm really pleased with it.

I have been doing portraits of my family and thought I would try something ...

My Son  Here is portrait number 3. This is my son. I struggled with this one but really enjoyed doing it.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Jan, your struggle isn't obvious,...

Beauty  Good looks catch the eyes but,
A good personality catches the HEART!

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Rachna, I think your drawing is fantastic!

Daughter Number Two  This is the second portrait I have done, in fact this is the second drawing I have done since starting drawing after a long time. I'm really enjoying it....

My Daughter  Hi all

I have recently started drawing again after never having the time with three daughters to bring up. But, I have now found time to get back to ...

Angelina Jolie  I drew this drawing a long time ago, but a friend of mine encouraged me to upload this anyway. This is a 100% pencil drawing which i drew from a photo ...

Ballet Night  I did this drawing from a how-to book and I used colored pencil. I did my best to make her look natural and the hair look real.

I have been practicing ...

Surprised  This is the final drawing in my series of 4.

To me he looks as if he could be saying "Oh my!" and being very surprised by something. I did this with ...

The Duke  In grammar school I loved to draw but once in high school the desire disappeared.

Now at retirement age, lately I can't seem to stop drawing. Several ...

Pensive  This is the 3rd one in a set of 4 that I am working on at the moment.

Here are the first 2:

Oh What A Look

Facial Expression

I have learned ...

Facial Expression  This is the 2nd picture of a set of 4 that I am currently doing. I just enjoyed drawing.

This is done in graphite 6 and 9B.

Here is the first ...

Getting Started  I am just beginning to draw and would like to be able to draw realistic portraits. I a trying to "self teach" through books, and a course I bought on ...

Sassy  The granddaughter of my long distant relative passed at the age of 51/2 years of age.

They contacted me about doing a pencil portrait of her to gift ...

Amber  I have a friend who was getting married, well with the economy the way it is, living on a one paycheck income and raising 2 kids, I was not able to purchase ...

Deep Thought  As I was browsing the internet looking at other artist work, with my daughter by my side, I ran across a website that had some colored portraits. A few ...

My Daughter  As requested, I am submitting more of my drawings. This is the 4th portrait drawing I have done. It is one of the series I did for my husband's birthday....

All About Art  hi, i'm thirteen years old. one day i had nothing to do so i decided to try drawing portraits . i actually did and i became very talented in art and i'...

My husband  I am a self taught artist. Only recently have I really became serious with my drawings and aimed to produce more life-like drawings.

This is actually ...

My First Successful Portrait  I took up drawing as a way to lose stress about two years ago and really enjoy it. I don't do it everyday but definitely on a weekly basis.

I'm trying ...

I Drew Half   This one is supposed to be the girl from the show called sex in the city...I can't think of her name...but it was my first one I ever did like this.

I ...

Portrait of an Indian Dancer  Hi,
Today I am going to share with you another of my sketches. This is a Portrait of an Indian Dancer.

I hope u like my sketch again. Waiting for ...

Magazine Girl  I thought i would give it a go.
i struggle a bit with the nose and lips and I found it hard to get the size right.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Teresa,...

Skull  Here is a skull that I drew with graphite.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Jackie, this is very well done.

Submission guidelines for your drawings state ...

Beautiful Girl Sketch  Hello again...
This is my 2nd sketch. A sketch of a beautiful girl, i love her eyes, i think they are so innocent. Her eyes waiting for her beloved.... She ...

Happy girl  I felt in this drawing that i need to draw a girl that is happy in her life.

**Note from Kerry:
Hi Esraa, so was this copied from a picture, or was ...

Kathryn Heigl  I noticed at a school open house, the students had taken a black and white photo of a persons face from a magazine and cut it right down the middle. They ...

Sheba Lady  My name is Elaine and I am a self taught artist.

It all happened back in 2004, when I tore ligaments in the right knee. I could not believe that I ...

Angelina  Hi,
My name is Rose, I am a self taught Artist and have been drawing since I was about five years old. I love to draw for relaxation and creating art ...

Portrait  My hobby is drawing and I hope to learn more about portrait and Caricatures;
and Thanks

عمرو ديــاب

Emails : Pacers_demon at yahoo.com ...

My Friend From School 2  This is another friend from my classes. This is the first time I've drawn more than 1 pic of the same person on the same page. It's very hard to make them ...

Sandra  This young girl is an an actress and i sketched her portrait which was in the GO magazine...this is my 2nd sketch.

***Note from Kerry:
Theekshana, do ...

TSR  Usually i do paintings..but i wanted to shift in to Sketches. This is my 1st sketch.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Theekshana, well you certainly picked a ...

His Baby  This is my friend's latest motorbike, he's very proud of it.

This is the first time I've drawn a bike like this ... hope he's pleased.

***Note from ...

Oh What A Look  This is one out of a set of 4 pictures. All with different expressions and that is why I wanted to draw them. Something different and new as I have never ...

Padre Peo In Prayer  I drew this a while ago but it wasn't as good as this until I saw lee hammond teach proper shading on youtube. Now I think I have made him look real.

I ...

Hope Seems Far Away  The inspiration for this picture came from a National Geographic, probably my favorite source for pictures to draw.

There's something to be said for ...

Auntie Tracy and Puppy  Yay first upload ever! ok story behind the picture.. well i was in the mood to draw and i decided to look through a very old photo album and hey hey i ...

A Girl Evolved  Well I was dreaming with her..
I woke up at 2am and started to make real my dream
before i lost that image..

Oh and thanks for the last comment....it ...

Young Child  I have been drawing for several years now but have only recently started to draw portraits. This is the first portrait that I have ever completed and ...

In Memory  When I went back to see which site I had found this picture on. I realized, after I finished, that I had drawn a picture of a Michael Jackson look-a-like....

Portrait of a Star  I absolutely love Lucille Ball. She was one of the greatest of her time. She brought laughter and happiness into the homes of millions of people.

I ...

My Friend From School  I'm in school for massage therapy and this is my good friend. She begged me for a pic and so i was able to do this of her.

I'm in the process of learning ...

First try  This is my first try in drawing/sketching a human face. There are many mistakes, proportion is one of them, and I find it really difficult to do areas ...

Sus And Millie  This is the first time I used water colour pencils (without water)! I was quite pleased with the outcome, and would love to do more, when I get the time....

The Cowboy  A guy I had met had a newspaper clipping of his son and I thought it would be great piece to draw.

The boy was 12 years old and his dad said he was ...

Full Of Life  This is my friend Michelle.. She is handicap but that doesn't stop her from having a great life, full of laughter and jokes.

She has touched my heart ...

My Nephew  This is my nephew. I drew this a couple of years ago. At the time, I thought this was one of the best ones that I was able to do.

It's done on 50 lb ...

Portrait of Kindness and Wisdom  This is a drawing of my Mother. She is one of the kindest people one would ever hope to know. And after raising 7 of us kids she definitely is wise.

I ...

Portrait of a Niece  I finally got around to reading some of the advise you give on this site. What a difference it made for me!!

I was reading about turning a color picture ...

Thinking  My Dad and I work on one picture and copy as close as we can. Once we are both done, he gives me a lesson on what I should do next time.

I tell him ...

Head of a Woman  This picture is a copy of a drawing of Vincent van Gogh. I like his drawings very much.

Last year I was in Amsterdam in van Gogh museum and also in ...

Antique Doll  This drawing was done some 6 to 7 yrs before..

Shading was with a graphite pencil.

***Note from Kerry:
She's cute Martin. Very good.

Pretty Lady  This is my boyfriend's sister and we have gotten close over the years. I just love how she looks. She didn't know I drew this intil I posted it on my site....

All Eyes  This is my dad's artwork. I think he does a great job. Somethings he is better at and there are things I'm good at with our art.

It's nice if I'm having ...

God Bless  It's me again! This is my great uncle Danny. He was in the Air Force for 20 years.

While i was drawing this my dad asked why he was small being i didn'...

Portrait Of The Skull  This portrait was drawn with point-ball pen. The skull is made of plastic and was lent to me by my art teacher.

I have drawn several pictures of her ...

Indian drawings  I enjoy drawing on weekends. I've sent in a couple of drawings here and I am happy to see your comments & suggestions for improvement.

***Note from ...

Hanuman  Drawing is my full time hobby on weekends.
Some of the drawings I made are photographed & enclosed.

Happy to see your comments & suggestions for improvement....

Little Sis  This is my little sister. I really like taking photos and this came out great when i wasn't really trying to take a pic, I just love to draw people who ...

The Love Of My Life  This is my boyfriend Brandyn. I just really like this picture so I drew it.

Black people are hard to draw sometimes, so I'm just trying to push myself....

Sweethearts  This is my grandma and grandpa... how art moves thru a family.

My great grandma was a painter and my grandpa is a wood worker. My Dad is an artist and ...

My Cute Goof  This is my cousin's baby. If you make all kinds of goofy faces, he tries to copy you.

He almost didn't make it he was way too early. But now, he is ...

Rajesthani....  When i was going through my old drawing books, i saw a picture of this beautiful lady...

The moment i saw her i was tempted to draw her... though my ...

Claudette  This portrait was made after one of the drawing lessons of Brenda Hoddinott.

It is quite easy to draw because you draw it by using a simple grid in ...

Portrait of Dada Radha Raman Ji  I am a Art teacher in India and I want to make the portrait of the founder of our school, Dada Radha Raman Ji.

I have a photograph of Dada ji, so I ...

Lady  When i finished my drawing of the queen, I had an idea of drawing a common lady.....this drawing is the result of it....how do u think this drawing is?...

Queen  hi mam..... I tried a portrait of an empress.....how is it?

***Note from Kerry:
You have chosen a hard subject but I think you have done a very good ...

My Mate Mick  I copied this from a photo, sorry about the mouth Mick, you are far better looking than my sketch depicts! Must work on that aspect.

Mick is my mate ...

1920s Art Deco Style Lady  This was my first attempt at using watercolour pencils on a portrait style piece of work.

The body of the work was done using a B graded pencil and ...

Mother Teresa Drawing  Hi..Kerry.
Drawing elderly people is such a challenging thing, since it takes more details on their face. I'd like to know how I've done with it.

***Note ...

Life Is A Book  This was just out of imagination...picturised in mind....no age barrier for reading and learning...life is indeed a book..to be read cover to cover...cheers
...

Burden Of Sorrow  Here I used an HB and an H pencil and for shading. I also used lead powder.. I mean I just scraped the pencil point on to an emery paper and used the powder....

Rodea  This is the very first drawing I have ever completed. I have a long way to go, but I was proud I could draw something besides a stick figure.

***Note ...

Sleeping Beauty  I saw my little grandaughter sleeping, and then I found this in one of my Christmas books, thought I would try it!!

***Note from Kerry:
It's very good,...

Up And Down  I was given two new books for Christmas, and I came across these two together, so I had a go at drawing them in my own way.

When my grandaughter, who ...

My First Live Portrait  This is a friend who asked me to sketch a portrait of her. So, this was my first attempt at a live portrait.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Marc, I think your ...

Suna Just A Portrait..  This is just a portrait of a woman, created with minor reference.

I like to draw my drawings just as how I see them in my head.

Of course I learned ...

My friend Nia  I sketched a picture off of a photo of a friend of mine modeling. It was a gift to her.

***Note from Kerry:
Wow, Tammy, that's really good. Portrait ...

My Nephew Danny  I've been away from drawing for at least 10 years and I've just got that "artists itch" to put pencil to paper.

So, I bought some realistic drawing ...

Johnny Depp  My Step Daughter is 17 today. I made this portrait of Johnny Depp for her birthday. It can be found easily on the Internet. However I changed the background ...

James Dean  The next drawing I did when I was only 12 years old was that of James Dean. I found a black & white picture of The Rebel Without A Cause, inside a magazine ...

Portrait Of My Friends  I always liked drawing, but only in the beginning of this year (2008) I started taking it more seriously.

I began drawing portraits in January 2008,...

Man  Hi AAD friends,
I found this picture of a man in a how to draw book. I also thought it was a great picture and tried to draw it just like it looked in ...

Girl  Hi AAD friends,
I found this picture of a girl in a how to draw book. I thought it was a great picture and tried to draw it just like it looked in the ...

Mind Power  I drew this portrait of Alicia Keys a couple years ago. I was trying to capture her eyes and the detail of her hair.

There is just something about ...

Dad  My dad. I love my dad. He is my friend, philosopher and guide in my life. My inspiration.

This is drawn from a picture of his younger days.

Hope ...

Portrait Of A Girl  This is a weird story. I found a picture on the internet and decided to draw it. I was sitting on the floor and the light was bad, but I was too lazy ...

Michael Jordan  I found this picture of Michael Jordan, in Sport Illustrated magazine. I thought it would be cool to draw a picture of the King of basketball.

**Note ...

Attitude  This woman has such attitude and I just love it. As someone said, she has the look of "Me? Wash dishes? No ways!!!"

I did this in soft pastels and ...

Portrait Of A Woman  I fell in love with this picture the minute that I saw it and I just had to draw it.

This was my first pastel paint picture and I enjoyed it very ...

Portrait Of Gina  I used to draw, draw, draw when I was a teenager. (I am now 52)

Then I gave up, until my sister talked me into going on a painting week-end with her,...

Edward  Edward Scissorhands is my cousin's favorite movie, and she is madly in love with Johnny Depp; so I decided to surprise her with this Christmas present ...

Roman Woman  I found this picture online, and thought it would be fun to draw! It is one of my favorites!

Have any of you used water color pencils? I can never ...

First Portrait  About a year ago one of my Brothers talked me into trying my hand at watercolour painting, now that I've retired and have loads of time on my hands. He ...

Picture of Rabindranath Tagore  He is called the greatest poet in the Indian subcontinent.

This picture was made by some other artist in a book, I just tried to copy it. It took a ...

Portrait of David Beckham  This is the first portrait I have drawn after I learned about human face and the ratios.

I think it turned out pretty close. I learned it from media....

A Bangladeshi Girl  Here is a pencil sketch I've made recently (5 Nov) which I would like to share with all of my friends in allaboutdrawings.

This is a picture of a Bangladeshi ...

Portrait of an actress  Hi,
This is my favorite drawing I've ever drawn.
It's a portrait of an actress but I forgot her name.

I'm a girl from Belgium. (So my English sentences ...

Portrait of Kate Beckinsale  I was just checking some portrait drawings on the internet and I saw a site where a person drew this drawing of Kate, and I thought it was awesome to be ...

Wedding Picture  Hi AAD Friends,
This is a picture of a friend on his wedding day. My friend asked me to draw this picture for him and his wife.

It took a long time ...

Portrait of Aaliyah  This is a nice pencil drawing I did of Aaliyah recently. I think I did a great job with this drawing, I love the way I did the hair mostly. I really ...

A Vanishing Breed  He hit the beach at Iwo Jima under heavy enemy fire in a real war for our freedom. Now nobody cares. He was my uncle.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Dennis,...

Matt Damon Drawing  I draw this on a photocopy paper A4 , I use H, 2B, 4B 7B pencils.

I haven't done great job on the hair ( I am working on it ).
I hope to get some ...

I Wonder  This is my first portrait attempt. The shading is not too good, but I am happy with it. What do you think?

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Ken, your first ...

Woman In Graphite and Turps  I did this picture in graphite and turpentine. It's a nice medium to experiment with.

Then I did the highlights with soft pastel. I must be honest ...

Portrait Of A Friend  I miss our college days and my friends. I still remember the first day in the college. We were so afraid to face the so called Ragging. Slowly we were ...

Girl Friend  This is the first time that I have drawn a sketch from a picture. I have started drawing again, after 3 years layoff.

**Note from Kerry:
Your friend ...

My Friend From School 3  This is my friend's daughter. I said i was going to draw it and i gave it to her for her 6th birthday.

She is such a bright little girl.

Her mother ...

Female  I did this drawing of a female. I copied it from a how to draw book.

It's not exactly as the female in the book. It turned into another woman i thought ...

Hood  I saw a gangster & I thought he looked cool.

This is done with INK.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Jackie! I love the title of your drawing. I think this ...

Personal Reminder  This drawing reminds me of ..a girl..
Actually, i drew this one..thinkin about her :(

:P when i scanned this...i didn't like it, so i made some adjustments ...

First try at faces  Faces are very hard for me to capture. This should be my daughter, but don't tell her.

Lips are the hardest. What do you do with teeth when you ...

Kristin Stewart  This is another black and white picture from a magazine. I cut it down the middle and then taped half of it on my drawing paper, so I could try drawing ...

Oprah  This was a little more difficult than I thought it would be, but here she is!
It's Oprah Winfrey.

My scanner bleached out some of the details, the ...

Brandon  A friend of mine wanted me to sketch her son. She sent me a digital picture that I used as a reference for this drawing.

I used a mechanical pencil ...

Adam Lambert  I began drawing a little more during American Idol season 8.

Adam was my favorite to win, but came in second.

Here is a sketch I did of him from ...

Whitney  This is a british lady who was in a magazine.

I drew this sketch on 15th Aug 2009. This is my 5th sketch.

I have sketched this on an A4 sheet using ...

Mira  This is my 4th sketch. i saw this girl in a Magazine and i wanted to sketch her..so i gave an image to my thought..

***Note from Kerry:
Well done Theekshana!...

Amanda  I'm on vacation these days, so i wanted to spend it in a meaningful way.

..So i started sketching...this is my 3rd sketch.

***Note from Kerry:
Theekshana,...

Female Portrait  I drew this last night so I can start practicing again. I found it to hard to draw at this angle so I gridded the whole thing.

That's the best I can ...

My family Portrait  It was my sweet brother's Birthday for which I wanted to gift him something special. This is what I gave him!

***Note from Kerry:
Shyama, I think this ...

Portrait of The Duke  John Wayne was one of my dad's favorite actors. Having grown up with this legend, I myself love all his movies.

***Note from Kerry:
Me too, Patty!...

Portrait Of Another Friend  This is the second drawing I did for a friend of mine that has gone out of town for a couple of days.

This is her daughter who was born with Downs ...

Portrait Of A Friend  I've been going through some pictures with a friend of mine. I found one of each that I thought were the most adorable photos of them. In this drawing ...

My Friend And His Daughter  Now my friend for years, I saw this photo of him and his daughter together. I thought it was lovely, very tender - a father's love.

So, I endeavoured ...

My First Portrait  I saw some portraits and i taught myself to draw my own pictures. It is not so beautiful but i love this one because this is the first portrait that i ...

Portrait of a KING  I have a friend that absolutely loves Elvis. I've drawn several for her. But, I feel this is the best one yet. All the other ones have been caricature ...

Joe Lawrence  There isn't much to say about this picture. He is Joe Lawrence - a famous Indian actor.

Actually, I was not that interested while drawing this portrait,...

Sweety  When I saw this potrait, I just forgot myself and I was tempted draw it.

I tried my level best to make it perfect...is it good looking???

***Note ...

An unknown Girl  Ok this is a girl.. well, a lot of girls combined into one.

Well i tried to combine the girl I used to date :)

***Note from Kerry:
Hi David, you ...

Barney and Daughter  This is a drawing of my daughter and her favourite teddy,
Barney, a mouse. Barney was bought for her when she was feeling poorly, and he has seen her ...

LLoyd  This is a sketch of my Friend who lives in Australia. I've never met him but chatted to him for years.

He also enjoys creating images, but is more into ...

Portrait of a Star  I found this picture of Jack Nicholson in a magazine, I was so excited when I was finished with this one!

He has such sharp lines to his face that it ...

The Scared Heart  My name is Omaima, I am 18 years old and I like drawing.

I draw mostly portraits.......and that is all.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Omaima, I really ...

Portrait of Jack Sparrow  I like the movie "Pirates Of The Caribbean" very much. And one of my classmates likes Captain Jack even more than the movie itself.

She asked me to ...

Portrait of Man and Wife  This is a pencil drawing of me and my husband. This year we will be married for 30 years! On our 25th anniversary I wrote him a poem called Together Forever....

Practicing Grid Art   My name is Ronald and I have been practicing grid art from this site.

I thought I would show how well I did. I did the best I could. Soon, I'll show ...

Music Major  This is a drawing of my son sitting at a grand piano. This picture fascinated me because of the reflection on the piano.

I shaded, lightly, with the ...

A Friend  I tried an r and d on this pic..and glad was i..that it looked like her.....

Again, the shading is with lead powder. I used an eraser on her hair here ...

Fear  I wanted to get some fear in the picture and i guess i got it... :D

The shading is with lead powder...and I used an HB and 2hb pencil.

***Note from ...

My Family  For Christmas of 2007 I took the graduation pictures of all my brothers & sisters, plus my Mom and Dad's wedding picture and drew this for my Mom as a ...

Pencil Drawing  This is a copy of a drawing that a friend found on the internet.

I was just messing around drawing this and I think that it turned out rather nice....

Portrait of Dr. Radha Krishnan  I have a photograph of Dr. Radhakrishnan. I made a portrait of him with the help of that photograph and by using colored pencils and dry pastels.

Sudha ...

Mr Biggie Smalls  I saw this somewhere and I really liked it so I had a go at it.

I hope you enjoy it.

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Fancy216! I think this is great.

Classical Dance  hi....mam....
i wanted to draw something beautiful and cultural....
does this picture satisfy my needs??

***Note from Kerry:
Hi Nithya, I ...

Innocence Of A Child  This drawing comes to mind when you see a child's expression.They have so many different features which allows them to show their many personalities.

I ...

Portrait Of A Child  I found a book on how to draw and I liked this picture, so I drew it. It was quite difficult to draw. I used a 4B pencil.

I have since been told that ...