We draw celebrities step by step. Paintings by celebrities not known as artists

Hi all! This vanilla week there were a lot of wonderful posts about love in all its forms: for family, for homeland, for nature, for work, for sports, and so on. But most of us first came to Gossip Cop because of our love of celebrities. Then we found out that there is a whole community here versatile people, posts various topics, were delighted, and fell in love with Gossip Man even more passionately. But, nevertheless, on Gossip the lion's share of content and even on blogs are stars various fields activities and different scales.

Celebrity images inspire creative people. Probably everyone who knows how to draw at least a little has tried to portray their idol. And those lacking the ability to draw have probably tried it too. In general, even if you draw a person like a cephalopod, there are a lot of lessons on the Internet that promise to teach you how to draw, if not like a professional, then at least achieve portrait resemblance. For example, this application.

Choose, for example, Tom Hiddleston and step by step...

In the meantime, we are painting ugly likenesses of star favorites with an unfaithful hand, I suggest you enjoy the creativity professional artists drawing portraits of celebrities. Talented artists achieve portrait likeness using various techniques in a wide variety of, often very unexpected, means and materials.

Let's start with the usual visual arts- pencils and paints.

1. MITSUO2 – talented artist from Japan, which creates very realistic portraits celebrities in pencil. He draws with colored pencils.

2. Talented Russian artist Natasha Kinaru from Voronezh creates incredibly realistic portraits of celebrities. In her drawings, she uses pencils to convey the emotions and character of a person.

Future Jared Leto

3. A young illustrator from Great Britain named Innes McDougall. The drawing technique is so realistic that you get the feeling that this is a photograph. The artist seems to love Adrian Lima with the most tender love

4. Pencil drawings Kelvin Okafor. The prototypes of the young artist’s paintings are indeed photographs, but it is unlikely that anyone would dare call his works simple reproductions. Due to the virtuosity of his performance, British critics are already calling Kelvin a worthy follower of da Vinci and Caravaggio. Similar technique called photorealism. The artist is recognized, prices for his works reach up to 9,000 pounds (~430,000 rubles)

5. Laura Modamio – spanish artist, draws portraits of celebrities using a simple ballpoint pen

6. Malaysian artist Vince Low, drawing technique - many lines, strokes and curls, which together form complete images. Title drawing of Audrey Hepburn by him.

7. Polish artist Christoph Lukasiewicz. Pencil. Surely you highlighted postcards with his drawings.
It’s impossible to include all his works, but if you’re interested, google them, just like other artists.

8. My favorite - British artist Ileana Hunter, portraits famous beauties minimalist, emphasis on eyes and lips.

Computer graphics

9. Graphic designer George Chamoun, a series of collages in which the author brought together actors and actresses different eras– golden and modern. The name of the series “Iconatomy” arose from combining the words “icon” and “anatomy”.
Angelina Jolie and Elizabeth Taylor
Scarlett Johansson and Marilyn Monroe
George Clooney and Cary Grant
Natalie Portman and Audrey Hepburn

10. Jan Nagra (Jan Nagra) Canadian artist. Every day he draws one portrait of a celebrity. I couldn’t find a description of the work, but it looks like it’s computer vector graphics

11. Belgian artist Ben Heine. Portraits from circles different color and diameter. My original equipment he calls it Digital Circlism.

12. "Madonnari" - ordinary drawings on the asphalt. I don’t know the authors, just a photo from a competition in Lake Worth (Florida, USA)

This post is already long, so portraits of celebrities from unusual materials in the second part. I hope you liked it)))

Updated 26/04/14 03:10:

Once again I’ll try to post Calvin Okafor:

And about Vince Lowe was from the blogger pushilina

The topic of this article is devoted to how to draw a portrait with a pencil step by step for beginners. Each of us is looking for convenient way depict what he sees. Therefore, I want to offer an option on how to draw a portrait of a person, be it a loved one, or a person sitting opposite on the train, or it will be portraits of celebrities. In this version, there is only one rule - simplicity.

And today is a training lesson. We will draw a person’s face with a pencil step by step, a person whom you see every day; you are used to “working” a little on his appearance, trying on makeup or a smile, severity or tenderness. We draw the face you know as your reflection in the mirror.

But first, let's get a mirror and look at ourselves like for the first time. All people are similar, and at the same moment different, and you are no exception. What makes us similar? Everyone has it healthy person there are two eyes, a mouth, a nose, ears, eyebrows, hair arranged in a hairstyle. What makes us different? The shape, size and location of these “details” of human appearance. So, a portrait is a kind of collage or puzzle of several passages, which we will “break down” into the plan of our work: Eyes; Mouth; Nose; Ears; Brows; Hair (hairstyle) and oval face.

And all this has its own shape, size and its own proportions of location on the face. This is what makes each of us “one of a kind” and unlike anyone else. And, if we are learning to draw a portrait of a certain person, then it would be good to first pay attention to the shape and type of each element of the face in detail. And only after this our final goal, and this is a portrait with colored pencils, will become more accessible.

Eyes

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Lips

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Nose

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Ears

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Brows

Step 1

Step 2

Hair (hairstyle) and face shape

Action 1

Act 2

Act 3

Well, we have learned to work on each detail separately. Time to put the puzzle together. Let's talk about having a pencil person.

Angle

Profile – if the model is located sideways to us.

How to draw a portrait of a person who is sitting half-turned to us? And what is this work called? This is three quarters. This angle is very convenient for a romantic and informal image. It brings out the beauty of the eyes and lips. This is exactly what we will choose to make the first pencil portrait from a photograph.

Working on an image from a photograph

To understand how to draw a person’s face, let’s divide everything into stages.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

A little more detail:

Eyes and eyebrows

Nose

Stage 4

Stage 5

Test lesson

1) Oval face.

2) Auxiliary lines to maintain proportion.

3) Schematic representation of all elements.

4) We make a portrait with colored pencils.

The lesson has been learned and reinforced. As for me, the result is not bad. We can safely say that we have understood how to draw a portrait with a pencil. And if necessary, we will use our new skills.

We present you the paintings famous personalities, whose artistic talent you didn’t even suspect. The fact is that they are known for their other outstanding qualities. Among such famous non-artists you can see such names as: Viktor Tsoi, Adolf Hitler, Sylvester Stallone, Marilyn Manson, etc. Sylvester Stallone has been painting for more than 35 years and soon an exhibition of his paintings will open on October 27 in the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg. Sylvester's works are estimated at 40-50 thousand dollars.

Sylvester Stallone

Tim Burton

Hollywood's premier storyteller is unusual in everything he does. Burton's fantasy world is so wide that sometimes it simply does not fit into the film, so many of the artist's ideas remain just sketches on paper.

Bob Dylan

“New Orleans Series” is the name of the exhibition of paintings by the famous American musician Bob Dylan, telling about life in New Orleans in the 40s and 50s of the last century. For many of his fans, this exhibition became a revelation, because few knew that with youth Bob showed himself as an artist.

Victor Tsoi

Viktor Tsoi received an aesthetic education from childhood and loved to sculpt and draw. After eight years of school, he continued the path of an artist and entered the Serov School in the design department, and after evening school he graduated from the Art Restoration School.

Marilyn Manson

He began painting long before he became famous, and now his current fame makes it difficult to perceive him as an artist. However, remaining true to himself and still gravitating towards everything devilish, Marilyn Manson, of course, chose death, violence and mutilation as themes for his paintings.

Adolf Gitler

But he could become a good artist, paint landscapes and still lifes, earn his living by creating postcards and stamps, which, in principle, is what he did in his youth. But at one time, Adolf Hitler was not accepted into the Vienna Academy of Arts, recognizing his paintings as unremarkable, with the exception of those depicting buildings: cathedrals, palaces, museums.

Winston Churchill

Unlike Hitler, Churchill did not give up painting and continued to paint almost all his life, creating about 500 paintings. As an artist, Winston Churchill was and remains respected to this day. His paintings were not visible during his lifetime, but many knew them, and now these paintings are highly valued.

Robbie Williams

Behind Last year happened in the life of the popular British singer Robbie Williams whole line serious changes. According to Robert himself, for several months now everything free time he devotes himself to drawing, and if earlier the singer considered this process as a simple hobby, then after a number of enthusiastic assessments from friends who saw his paintings, the star had a number of far-reaching plans for his works.

Freddie Mercury

Few people know that the famous frontman QUEEN Freddie Mercury initially wanted to become an artist and graduated from Ilinsky with honors art college in London in 1969, receiving a degree in graphics and design.

I started drawing portraits of celebrities back in early childhood, at that time I really liked to draw from magazine pictures. At that time, naturally, it was the magazine “Soviet Screen”, unfortunately there were no others at hand, where photographs of mainly our domestic actors were shown, most of these were stills from our films.

Mostly then I drew with an ordinary pencil, sometimes I drew with colored pencils, of course, I didn’t keep all these drawings.

I can say with confidence that many artists often or rarely turn to the topic of drawing famous people. It would seem, what’s wrong with this and why is it needed?

When I was street artist and painted, for example, on Arbat, each artist always exhibited his works in order to attract those who wanted to paint them own portrait. This is where portraits of celebrities were just necessary. Visitors even chose the artist based on the best resemblance of the star portraits and, of course, the quality and realism of the work.

There are commissioned portraits for celebrities, but they are rare. Since I'm in Lately I draw portraits from photographs to order for everyone, and portraits famous people on my website they tell my potential customers the level of my work.

I still have a craving for drawing famous people today, thanks to the Internet where I exhibit my works not only on this site but also in in social networks like Facebook, Devianart and Instagram, I get a lot positive feedback, from time to time, and customers who, as you know, inspire to continue drawing famous actresses, actors, singers and other popular personalities.

On this page I present portraits of famous people that I have painted from time to time over the past 15 years, most of them using dry brush techniques.

Among the works are portraits of singer Britney Spears, Natalia Oreiro, actresses Emma Watson, Megan Fox, and actors Vladimir Vysotsky, Johnny Depp, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Emilia Clarke, Charlize Theron, Eliza Taylor, Brittney Karbowski, cosmonaut German Titov, Cardinal Ratzinger , Benedict XVI, Top Models: Valeria Matza, Josie Maran and others.

Lately, often walking on the Internet, I sometimes notice images of various famous personalities inspiring me as an artist to the idea of ​​drawing a portrait of a celebrity.

Also, the inspiration to draw a particular actor or actress has recently been revealed after watching films and TV series. For example, Game of Thrones or Lost. In the series Game of Thrones, I was attracted by the image of the beautiful actress Emilia Clarke, where she played Khalissi, the Mother of Dragons, resulting in six portraits and it was also difficult not to notice a very striking figure in this film, this is the dwarf actor Peter Dinklage in the role of Tyrion Lannister and young actress Maisie Williams as Arya Stark. In the film Lost or Staying Alive there is the incomparable beauty Evangeline Lilly in the role of Kate Austen, 3 portraits, one of them in oil on canvas.

In most cases, I try to change a lot in the portraits of my idols, for example, light and shadow shades, sometimes volume, background, hairstyle, etc. Subsequently, this helps to increase the perception of the star’s portrait to the proper level. For example, I had to change a lot, add in the portraits of Peter Dinklage, Evangeline Lilly, Emilia Clarke, young Charlize Theron, Maisie Williams, Nina Dobrev and Chloë Grace Moretz and others.

There are photographs where the actress, in my opinion, does not look like high level in understanding female beauty and the task becomes how to somehow fix it, make it just like candy, flatter it a little without going beyond the bounds, and of course add some charm. Perhaps someday, my work will be seen on the Internet by the owner herself this image will cheer her up :). If you would like to order a portrait from a photograph of any celebrity, or for someone you know, just let me know.

A figure such as a five-pointed star has many meanings in different cultures. Mentions of this symbol are found in Europe, the Middle East, and even in distant Africa. In paganism, it denotes the unity of the four elements and the human principle, in Islam (together with the crescent) it symbolizes the Prophet Muhammad. And in the twentieth century, it was the red five-pointed star that became the symbol of communism. Nowadays, stars can also be found simply as a decorative symbol - they are hung on christmas tree, make crafts, draw on the walls of houses. And if you also want to learn how to draw a star, step-by-step instructions will help you with this.

How to draw a five-pointed star step by step

If you want to learn how to draw a five-pointed star, then you need to proceed as follows:

First of all, we draw a flat vertical line- axis of symmetry.

From her top point we draw two diagonal lines so that the angle formed by them is divided by the axis of symmetry into two equal parts.

Then we draw two parallel horizontal lines.

Based on these auxiliary axes, we draw the three upper rays.

Then we make two lower rays. It is important that they are all the same length.

Erase all auxiliary contours.

That's it, now our picture is completely ready!

Learning to depict a three-dimensional star

If in the last section we learned how to draw a star step by step, now we will complicate the task a little - we will add volume to the figure. Don't worry, it's not difficult at all.

First, draw three lines - vertical and two diagonal. You should get something like an isosceles triangle divided in half.

Then draw another triangle, this time with an obtuse angle and a downward point.

All that remains is to complement the two lower rays using two diagonal lines. General outlines ready.

Now we divide the lower rays in half with two more diagonal lines converging in the center.

We do the same with the two upper rays.

Let's add 4 more short lines converging to the center.

Then we will remove all unnecessary contours.

Time to work with color. We chose blue and light blue, but you can choose any shade. It is only important to remember one rule: dark and light areas should alternate. Then the figure will look voluminous.

That's all, the drawing is complete.

An even five-pointed star in a few steps

You've probably seen that geometric bodies very often they draw inside a circle. And for good reason, because this is how to portray straight figure much simpler. You can see this for yourself if you decide to learn how to draw a star with a pencil.

First of all, let's draw a circle. To ensure everything goes smoothly, it is better to do this using a compass. Then mark five points at equidistant distances from each other.

We connect each point with two others that are not adjacent.

Now let's draw the main outline with a marker or felt-tip pen.

And we will erase everything unnecessary.

Now the star is ready - we did it!

A star made from a pentagon - couldn’t be simpler

If you want to know how to draw a star correctly, then there is one very simple and quick way. True, for this you need to be able to draw pentagons. Or have it ready-made.

At the first stage we draw a pentagon.

On the second, we connect its vertices so that one point is connected to two opposite ones.

Yellow Star for Beginners

If you are just starting your journey in fine arts and you want to learn how to draw a star evenly, then you need to do it like this:

First, we draw the letter “A” with a slightly higher cross bar.

Then left extreme point We connect the transverse strip to the lower end of the right diagonal line.

We repeat the same on the other side.

After this, color the resulting figure in yellow. If desired, you can choose a different shade.

Draw a shooting star and make wishes

We all know that when you see a shooting star, you should make a wish. Now we will figure out how to easily draw a star “with a train”.

First, let's draw an ordinary five-pointed star. It's okay if the lines are a little uneven.

Then we’ll mark a point in the lower left corner and draw four smoothly curving lines to it from the rays. In some ways, these lines will resemble part of an umbrella - its spokes are located in a similar way.

Then you should draw all the contours with a black felt-tip pen.

Now let's add transverse strokes - they will indicate movement and give the drawing dynamism.

That's it, our drawing is ready.