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Anyone who has ever looked through one of the two large volumes of Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks of notes and drawings would have to agree that his pencil portrait drawings not only record that great artist's impressions of both human and inanimate subjects, but also stand alone as outstanding examples of a pure art form - portrait drawings.
Before the invention of automated printing, the camera, and the surge of technology that followed, pencil portrait artists were commonly employed in every walk of life, from law courts to journalism, from nature research to exploration, and in medicine and science.
Successful portrait drawings capture the essence of a subject with an economy of line and space. Talented pencil portrait artists, either by natural talent or training, are able to convert lines into personality and shading into character and mood. Experienced artists can do this whether their subjects are in motion, posing live, or in photographs.
Paint Your Life, the highly successful on line art gallery photo to canvas website, employs many artists, each one specializing in particular styles or art media, and among these are experienced pencil portrait artists creating custom portrait drawings from digital photographs. The paintyourlife.com gallery site offers custom portraits in a full range of media: oil, watercolor, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, and pencil.
The hundreds of requests Paint Your Life receives for pencil portrait drawings is testimony to the increasing popularity of this traditional art form. A wedding album may include scores of formal and informal color photographs of the wedding and reception, but a black and white pencil portrait drawing from a favorite candid photo of the wedding couple gazing at one another will be the portrait that becomes a family heirloom.
Check out http://www.paintyourlife.com/galleries/pencil-portraits.asp to see how amazing a portrait drawing can be. Pencil portrait drawings of babies, pets, couples…even your boyfriend's old Ford pickup truck…make very special gifts for any occasion. Paint Your Life offers a full range of sizes and frames to suit any taste. Another amazing thing about portrait drawings is how affordable they are.
If you have a high school or college graduation party coming up, think how nice it would be to present the parents or grandparents with a black and white or colored pencil portrait drawing of your special graduate. Paint Your Life's design editors work together with their expert pencil portrait artists to create portraits that are guaranteed to please you.
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