Portrait paintings reflect the emotions of a person. Every portrait reflects the personality of a person. The eyes of the person in the portrait, tells a story by itself. In fact, a portrait can be called perfect only when the artist is able to capture the emotions, in the eyes of the person, perfectly into the portrait. It is not an easy task and every artist puts in a lot of effort to make their portraits look beautiful as well as real.

An expert artist can very successfully reflect the personality of a person through his portrait. He captures everything perfectly into the portrait right from the muscle tone and skull structure to the perfect smile. To make the portrait paintings perfect, an artist first studies his/her subject very closely. He/she very deeply studies the character and personality of the person whose portrait is being made. He/she studies the emotions reflected by the eyes and smile of the subject. The artists very carefully study the structure of the features too.

After close study of the subject, the artists start working on the portrait paintings. They put in all their efforts to fill life into the portrait and make it look real. They try to reflect the different emotions, like happiness, anger, excitement etc., present in the subject, through the portrait. All the qualities which are required to make a portrait look beautiful are present in Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. That’s the reason why it is considered as one of the most beautiful portrait paintings painted till date.

http://www.stefano-campitelli-portrait-and-nude-painting.com/ is a website of Stefano Campitelli, an Italian artist from Rome shows his female and male nude drawings and paintings, male nude etching prints, lifelike oil portraits, nude male soft-ground etchings and aquatint prints. He also teaches his art techniques. He has been painting and drawing for more than 15 years. Also etching is one of his great passions. In this virtual art gallery you will also find nude drawings, etching prints and aquatints.

Do you need information about art techniques? Here you will find some tips especially about oil painting, drawing and etching. Generally, figure painting is mainly focused on the female figure, but here male nude painting has an important place. Naturally other subjects as flowers and landscapes are represented as well.

If you find the way he express myself different, don’t worry, he am just an Italian “tourist”. If you have any questions or you are searching for some tips about art techniques, feel free to contact him.

If you are not new to drawing you already know that the real fun begins when you start drawing characters. Drawing props can be interesting but that is no match to character drawing. And drawing cartoon characters can be even more interesting. But let me tell you at the outset, character drawing is more fun because it is more challenging. You need to have right techniques in your bag. Apart from that you will need to practice a lot before you start making decent cartoon characters.

To be successful in character drawing you need to keep in mind the difference between a prop and a character. In one line it can be said that a character normally communicates something to the viewer through facial expression, gesture or body language, whereas a prop just remains there in the scene. So your main task as a character artist is to let your creation communicate with the watcher. You will need to learn the basics of expression. Fortunately the fundamentals of drawing expressive characters are same no matter if your character is a man, a cat or a tree.

There may be times when facial expression or body language may not be sufficient for your character to express itself. For such situations you can represent your characters speech or thought using speech balloon or thought bubbles as you can find in various comic books. If your character is in motion you can use motion lines to represent that. Trailing straight lines can not only show if the motion is slow or fast it can also show the direction of the motion.

Proper use of shadows is also very important. The shadows can show the time of the day, weather. Detailed shadow will take lot of drawing effort, if you do not want to spend much time for drawing shadow you can use small patches to represent shadow which is much better than using no shadow at all in your creation. Use right kind of props to compose your scene. The props can set the mood of the scene. So be selective about the props. The right types of props can add to the expressiveness of your character.