Design Stack: A Blog about Art, Design and Architecture: Subtle Pencil Portrait Drawings

Pencil portraits of original drawings and art inspired by famous artists.

Sam Clayden drew all of the sketches you can observe on this page.

As you can see from the titles of the pictures below, you will be able to see where the inspiration for the various pieces came from.

I love the feel of the past in the clothing of the people drawn.  These are the ones that are mostly inspired by artists from the past.

A lovely collection that includes groups of people, drawing studies and documentation of a step-by-step process of a portrait.

My favourite is drawing number 2.  Different people depicted on different planes.  They all seem to be existing in separate dimensions and are not aware of each other.  Even though they are in such close proximity to one another.  The lined graphite background helps bring together these figures in the most beautiful of ways.

Have a look at this drawing and the rest from Clayden.  I hope you like them just as much as I do.

Andrea Morani life model.

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Inspired by Anders Zorn paintings.

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Rubens or Van Dyck self portrait.

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Life model drawing.

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Ink portrait drawing.

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Diego Velázquez – Juan de Pereja.

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Inspired by Ilya Repin 1.

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Portrait drop in session.

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Inspired by Diego Velázquez.

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Inspired by Ilya Repin 2.

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